Eternal Vigilance

Posted by Shirley Siluk Gregory Jan 5, 2007

Wendell Phillips once said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," and the same can be said about living in a green, sustainable manner: protecting the Earth and our own health and well-being takes eternal vigilance, now more than ever.

In our highly consumerized culture, new must-have products and new must-eat foods seem to enter the marketplace by the hour, tempting us with ever more opportunities to want, buy, own and eat. Whether we need these things doesn't matter. Whether they're good for us or the environment matters even less.

But that's not a healthful, responsible or sustainable way to live, and we see the price of this kind of lifestyle every day: rising obesity, rising diet-related illnesses, rising environment-related illnesses, rising debt.

The solution lies in eternal vigilance. Be on the lookout, always, for misleading advertisements, damaging products and wasteful habits. Because our world is as precious as life and liberty and, unlikely liberty, once the Earth is lost, it can never be regained.