Crash

While few today remember the depression with clarity, those of us of a certain age had parents who did, and it was common for them to scold us when we left a room with the lights still on: "Do you have stock in the electric company?" That kind of awareness that resources are finite is in short supply today, even as the world hurtles toward a reckoning. It's time we started living every moment as if we were inhabiting a desert island and supplies were running out. Ideally we should do it in a spirit not of sacrifice or deprivation, but with a bouyant sense of pride and purpose.