MAINE MONITOR • May 6, 2022
We are consumers of convenience. Offer us a faster, easier, wrinkle-free, nonstick option, and we’re sold. We need no convincing that convenience is an inherent good; a lifetime of ads has done that work. Now many everyday conveniences imperil human health and the larger ecosystem. Yet there is frightening complacency about these potential dangers Existential threats are now so dire that even scientists are engaging in civil disobedience and calling for an immediate paradigm shift in how we produce and consume goods and energy and in how we travel. That shift can begin with deliberately countering the culture of convenience.