The Artdog Quote(s) of the Week
I recently realized that I’ve talked about habitat loss several times this year on this blog, but always in the context of plants and animals in the environment, never about humans losing their homes, except in the context of natural disasters.
But there’s an ongoing, not-too-dramatic-looking but heartbreaking and needless disaster unfolding in our country. Not the addiction epidemic, although it’s related. It’s a crisis of homelessness.
I’ll focus mainly on the US for my thoughts about homelessness in my December Quotes of the Week, because that’s a political system and society in which I participate. But it’s a global problem that all too few people are thinking about or addressing.
It’s time we started improving our record. Practical steps:
(1) Educate yourself. Start on the Internet but don’t stop there.
(2) Contribute as you can to a local, well-run homeless shelter or food bank.
(3) Educate others. Post, tweet, talk, participate.
(4) Advocate for change. Write, call, or otherwise communicate to local, state, and national government that you care about this issue!
IMAGES:Many thanks to Quote Addicts, via Joyce Naren’s Pinterest board , for the Linda Lingle quote-image; to UNDP (the United Nations Development Program) and the Summer Rain website, for the Nelson Mandela quote-image; and once again to Summer Rain for the Mahatma Gandhi quote-image.