Comments on: Biting in proportion with chewability http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/2008/10/15/biting-in-proportion-with-chewability/ politics ~ theology ~ life ~ fart jokes Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:41:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stirmyworld http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/2008/10/15/biting-in-proportion-with-chewability/comment-page-1/#comment-13732 Stirmyworld Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:06:10 +0000 http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/?p=660#comment-13732 Hey Geoff, I like your post, and your angle - start small and work into bigger things. Now that your post is live, I'd like to encourage you to pop the link to it in World Vision's Blog Action Day competition: http://learnaboutpoverty.org/2008/10/09/blog-action-day-competition/ We (at World Vision) set up a whole host of videos, stories and tips for people who were stuck... but you seemed to have something to go on! or you can tweet us @ twitter.com/stirmyworld cheers, NigePresto STIR.org.au learnaboutpoverty.org Hey Geoff,

I like your post, and your angle – start small and work into bigger things.
Now that your post is live, I’d like to encourage you to pop the link to it in World Vision’s Blog Action Day competition:
http://learnaboutpoverty.org/2008/10/09/blog-action-day-competition/

We (at World Vision) set up a whole host of videos, stories and tips for people who were stuck… but you seemed to have something to go on!

or you can tweet us @ twitter.com/stirmyworld

cheers,

NigePresto
STIR.org.au
learnaboutpoverty.org

]]> By: Ruth http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/2008/10/15/biting-in-proportion-with-chewability/comment-page-1/#comment-13731 Ruth Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:57:06 +0000 http://www.geoffreport.com/wp/?p=660#comment-13731 Fantastic post Geoff- I must say that I do find your thoughts on this issue very palatable (hehe). It's so easy to become overwhelmed by a pool of hypocrisy and throw your hands up in the air shouting 'it's hopeless! What could I ever possibly do?'. There's this famous quote from Macbeth where the wife says something like 'I've waded so far into this sea of blood that it's easier simply to continue on through than attempt to turn back'. I feel there are similarities with poverty alleviation on an individual level- we're too far ingrained in our consumerist lifestyle that often it's easier to turn our eyes away from the terrible reality of poverty than actually force ourselves to look at what we do and what we've done, and how we can make changes. This sort of contributes to the whole water debate- why should we as individuals keep our showers that extra 3 minutes shorter when on a big scale it most likely won't put a dent in the water crisis? We become so apathetic when we focus on our tiny impact in relation to the big issues. But as you say- if we bite off more than we can chew we'll most likely choke, so it's important to keep a healthy level of discomfort. Fantastic post Geoff- I must say that I do find your thoughts on this issue very palatable (hehe). It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by a pool of hypocrisy and throw your hands up in the air shouting ‘it’s hopeless! What could I ever possibly do?’.

There’s this famous quote from Macbeth where the wife says something like ‘I’ve waded so far into this sea of blood that it’s easier simply to continue on through than attempt to turn back’. I feel there are similarities with poverty alleviation on an individual level- we’re too far ingrained in our consumerist lifestyle that often it’s easier to turn our eyes away from the terrible reality of poverty than actually force ourselves to look at what we do and what we’ve done, and how we can make changes.

This sort of contributes to the whole water debate- why should we as individuals keep our showers that extra 3 minutes shorter when on a big scale it most likely won’t put a dent in the water crisis? We become so apathetic when we focus on our tiny impact in relation to the big issues. But as you say- if we bite off more than we can chew we’ll most likely choke, so it’s important to keep a healthy level of discomfort.

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