"The Audit"

    This is a short story, was very informative particularly on the topic of carbon footprints. Which is a way of calculating your impact on the earth as far as your daily routine goes, how much energy you use up and how much energy is used to keep your lifestyle the way that it is. I liked that it showcased all this information without losing the narrative style to it, which makes it more compelling to a wider audience one that perhaps needs to hear this more than anyone.

  Bill's journey to being awakened is nothing short of a fairy tale but the lessons that are brought up through his experiences allow us to begin conversations with those like him. What I think this short story also brings up, are how should the solutions for these environmental problems be executed.

Tiny homes, alternate lifestyle

We go from reading " How Close to Savage the Soul" which just shows the world completing collapsing to this that offers the solution of the Global Climate Audit where individuals are now forced by the government to live a certain way in order to keep our environment in order. One must really think is that what we want? Or the idea that Bill could go to Goodwin in order to continue living the way he does, which reminds me of the cap and trade system now which allows developed countries to keep outputting as many gases as possible, while developing countries are forced to remain stagnant economically.

Surprisingly Bill is able to see that maybe he can have the best of both worlds but sadly alot of people do not want to change their lifestyles whether that means having less, or eating better food. It is just hard to think about your impact on the environment when you have families to feed and money runs every aspect of it. I think solutions come in different shapes for different people, the key is making sure one's intention/ goal is to be as sustainable as they can be so future generations can do the same.