...when I saw that rusty chair which you might spot when you squint, I asked myself: "Which idiot put that chair into the carrier of a high-voltage power line?" and then a flash of inspiration shot through my brain.
You see the wind turbines far on the hills: Germany - crammed with theorists dominating pragmatists, though we have great engineers - has to learn to produce its own sustainable electricity.
As Government is against our already installed nuclear power plants (the Honest Fritz shivers when he thinks of coming winter, though Government - really, no joke!- has equipped him with good advice: "Shower less and shorter" and "Use a washcloth" and "Turn down the heating") - we have (and should have long ago, I agree on that, thrusting aside the thought of many, many killed birds) to install more wind turbines.
So: "recycling" and "sustainability" are the right password of the present and the future.
(Though I would keep the nuclear power plants for a wile).
"Sustainabilty" you call it in Plain Old English - in Germany they call it "Nachhaltigkeit" - first used 1713 in a publication on forestry - but there as "nachhaltige Nutzung" = ongoing use" - which makes sense. As a German philologist, I am not happy with the substantive.
And I thought: why shall I throw that new blog of mine "...und eine kleine Blume muss man auch haben" - which is part of a quote of Hans Christian Andersen:
"Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower"
onto the compost heap, only because I made a mistake in thinking about my aim and my readers?
You are my readers - and you speak English - thus I will take the little blog-seedling and water it diligently, protect it agains sun and wind, maybe build a little wind shelter as The Little Prince did for his rose.
Meaning: I will write in my own rambling English words, make my own blunders - and do not leave the field to Google translations - all that I will do in the name of sustainability.
Come to think of it: I do it in the name of FUN - because I LOVE plants!
