Rules of Life, The, 4th Edition

RULE 100

Be aware of the damage you are doing

This Rule doesn’t mean, as yet, that you have to do anything. All it means is a conscious decision to evaluate what you are doing to the environment, the world, and whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. You might choose to change what you do in the light of this evaluation. Or you may not, either because you figure what the heck or because you figure you’re pretty ‘green’ already and don’t need to change anything.

The reason I say ‘Don’t do anything as yet’ is that it is all too easy to rush headlong into action without having all the facts in front of you. You need to know if the changes you are making are actually making things better or worse. For example, when my youngest child was born ...