Yesterday, I had a friend over to watch Racing Extinction, because she is the other half of the advertisement committee for Documentary Night and we wanted to be fully educated. Anyway, after we were done watching- and I was done crying- I was hit with a marvelous Idea. My friend is a total in-denial anti-water-crisis...person, and she won't believe a single thing I say. So, in order to try and ease her doubt I turned on a short "current-crisis" video that follows "Last Call at the Oasis". She watched it, but still wasn't moved. When I asked her if I had made any difference, she said that she was more inspired to look it up. She's going to research! It's a step in the right direction, but still not what I was hoping for.
It is still remarkable how people can just NOT believe that there is a water shortage, but I suppose that it must be an American thing. Americans seem to believe that because water keeps coming from their faucets, there CAN"T POSSIBLY be a water crisis. But in California, there have already been instances where they turn on the faucet and not a drop comes out. It is getting worse and the fact that even desert-dwellers are in denial is terrible.
But the worst part is that for the last two days I seem to be unintentionally trying to make up for my friend's disbelief by becoming overly agitated by every little use of water. For example, we were driving to get lunch and one of the sprinklers off the side of the road was broken or something but the sidewalks and road were all wet. I felt so angry and guilty that I ranted about it for about five minutes afterwards.
It isn't fair that I should feel so guilty for the doubt of another person.
Mara Mesta,
Sea
It is still remarkable how people can just NOT believe that there is a water shortage, but I suppose that it must be an American thing. Americans seem to believe that because water keeps coming from their faucets, there CAN"T POSSIBLY be a water crisis. But in California, there have already been instances where they turn on the faucet and not a drop comes out. It is getting worse and the fact that even desert-dwellers are in denial is terrible.
But the worst part is that for the last two days I seem to be unintentionally trying to make up for my friend's disbelief by becoming overly agitated by every little use of water. For example, we were driving to get lunch and one of the sprinklers off the side of the road was broken or something but the sidewalks and road were all wet. I felt so angry and guilty that I ranted about it for about five minutes afterwards.
It isn't fair that I should feel so guilty for the doubt of another person.
Mara Mesta,
Sea