The Best Efficiency

Nowadays, people are searching for the most efficient ways to live. Since the 1950's, efficiency has been a part of American societal values. What will wash my dishes the fastest? What will get me to my job in the least amount of time or effort? What will show me the weather, my email, or my Facebook with the touch of a button. The dishwasher, the car, and the iPod touch can do all of these things, and Americans will buy these things, no matter what it costs, to make their lives that much more efficient.
Americans want everything easy, at least for the most part. Sure, aspiring to live out your passions and rising to the top of a corporate market can take hard work, but basically, for daily living, most Americans want things to just get out of the way and to do things for themselves. Big Macs through a drive thru, driving to work every day, and spending money left and right for things that we don't really need, but what we want. We are a country of efficiency. These are all things that make our lives more efficient, more able to move along smoothly and function in an easy, propelling manner, so we can all have time to follow our passions.

Efficiency isn't a bad thing. It is a good thing, it is what makes life run smoothly, how nature works, how God intended our lives to be. The least burdened as possible.
"Let your yoke be light", it says in the Bible. God wants us to be HAPPY. Yeah, happy.
So efficiency, let's all agree, is a good thing.
However, American lifestyle is a problem. Yes, we want things to be efficient, and it is good to be efficient in our daily lives, but there are many factors that Americans do not take into account everytime they eat a cheeseburger with a cardboard wrapping or when they drive to work everyday, letting their exhaust fill our Earth's air.
If we all wanted to live efficiently, one should take into account what it means to live, in the first place. For one, we need oxygen. Two, we need food, so we need healthy soil and water to grow it, along with a healthy amount of sunshine, not too hot or too cold. Three, we need shelter, so we are able to sleep in our climate without dying from cold or heat. Four, we need exercise, to keep our body functioning and to keep our spirits ready to experience life. And five, we need other people- we need to feel connected with other humans and feel good about the impact we have on others, without ignorance or prejudice; a whole human soul is one that knows what it is to be human and therefore allows others to be humans. We should all try to keep these parts of our lives efficient, since these are the bare necessities to live a happy life, for anyone, that is.
As Americans, we have done a pretty good job at providing ourselves with homes, for some of us, at least. However, the extra efficiencies in our daily American lives do not necessarily provide us with more efficiency to live. We are fully able to live without a dishwasher, without an iPod, and even without a car. The priorities we put on these "necesities" take energy away from the other true necesities we have to live a healthy, happy life. Sure, some people make enough money to get by, to most of the bare necesities of food and shelter, and oxygen, but wait..
do they?

For a long time, people have ignored a truly efficient material good that has enhanced and made people's lives happy for thousands of years. If we want to be truly efficient, and therefore happy, we need to recognize and expose the miracle factory of our bounty.
The Earth.
Yes, we have all exposed this efficient good for thousands of years, using it to grow food, to breathe, to sleep on, to exercise on, and connect with other beings on. However, throughout the Industrial Revolution up through today, we have been using the good and wearing it down, because of the other goods we use. Our priorities on Big Macs, cars, styrofoam, aersol cans, plastic, massive use of garbage cans rather than recycling bins, lack of reuse of items, and constant product manufacturing is crushing our main efficient thing. Which is the only thing that can create life.
So hence, we are going to have no life,...... if we ..... do ..... not..... rearrange our priorities.
The end.

Literally.

The End.


The Earth is the only thing on Earth in which we can grow food, breathe, sleep on, exercise on, and connect with other human beings on. What can we do to make this our priority!?

When will we realize that the ozone layer is efficient? That it is convenient? The ozone layer protects our lives from the harmful sun, which will kill human beings without the protective ozone shield.
This means that the ozone shield is what we need to protect if we do not want to die.