#MoveTheDate
Australia consistently ranks among the highest resource consumers per capita in the world, an unenviable position driven by our high energy use, resource-intensive industries, and significant waste generation. You may have heard the saying before, but if everyone in the world lived like Australians, we would require multiple planets to sustain our lifestyle.
Yet billions want to live like we do 😢
The majority of people exposed continuously to mainstream media in the majority of nations are being sold the same story including in our own. You can’t fault anyone for wanting to live a more comfortable life but in ‘advanced’ economies we have made excess our sickness (literally) and plundered the world around us.
This is true. Its also resulting in negative community and social effects where free and open community spaces are going into disuse or disappearing entirely as those that can afford to purchase more activities forbthwmsleves to do privately.
I thought about this only this morning as I passed a house that had a big trampoline squashed up against a big round tree swing (rendering the tree swing unusable). I’m sure its nice to have both, but was it that necessary?
The lack of space around most houses in new estates means that people have to use those shared spaces more. Though we will still see that trampoline squashed up against the swing in many of these houses.
Maybe people do use parks more? I’m not sure.
Theres a lot more stuff inside our houses to do now, and I seem to remember reading an article saying we are spending less time outdoors and drawing the connection between that and the increasing demand for larger houses. So maybe thats part of the reason why the outdoor equipment is pushed up against each other, because its all used so rarely anyway.
I feel like playgrounds are busier than when I was a kid but there’s less kids out on the street if that makes sense.
Feels like the kids don’t run about by themselves any more. Ir maybe it’s the parents driving them everywhere
Oh i get you, yeah that sounds right. Jimmy the Giant just had a show on early 2000’s subcultures where he referred to the diminishing of third places for young people to be meaning they don’t have their own space to develop as an individual group. He gave the examples of skaters, goths, and parkour.
