Raising Our Standards Of Living

"It's hard to change, to sacrifice, to move forward and leave some things behind. But it's not just about sacrifice. The Canadian environmental writer and TV personality David Suzuki gave a talk at Middlebury College some years back a out sustainability. At the end somebody in the audience asked if he really thought the prosperous citizens of North America would be willing to lower their standard of living and he said, "I'm talking about raising our standards of living!" If we live together in multigenerational households and grow more of our own food and make more of our own entertainment; if me move across the land by our own muscle power; if we live closer to where we work  — these changes significantly elevate our standard of living." 

~John Elder, "The Undiscovered Country: John Elder On The Wild Places Close To Home", by Leath Tonino in the SUN Magazine June 2013