Environmentalists and green nuts the world over have spent millions trying to convince indifferent populations to conserve our natural resources. They have endeavored to find a way to get us to realise the value of our natural resources before they run out. They have missed the simplest course of action available to them. Take it away for a day.
South Africans don't need to be told how precious our water is. We don't need to see campaigns on how to conserve electricity. The government has taught us how invaluable these resources are and they've done it the hard way; they’ve taken it away from us.
Every South African, whether rich or poor, has been without one or more resources for a day. We have first-hand experience of an energy crisis and know full well what it’s like to be in the middle of an important document at work only to find yourself in the dark, staring at a useless dead piece of machinery. Or what it’s like to be all soaped up in the shower only to find the trickle coming out of the shower head is slowly diminishing. Contemplating using toilet water to wash off your shampoo is probably more common in South Africa than you think.
We know how valuable our resources are, so we should be protecting them-with our lives. We should be showing the rest of the world how it's done. Either that, or the governments of the first world need to school them the hard way. I promise you that if they did that, environmentalists everywhere would hug a tree in thanks that people finally understood.
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