Improve the world, start with yourself

Already very early this year pollution levels are raising all over Thailand but especially in the North where I live and in and around Bangkok.

Wikipedia mentions: “Thailand’s dramatic economic growth has caused numerous environmental issues. The country faces problems with air, declining wildlife populations, deforestation, soil erosion, water scarcity and waste issues. Thailand's economic growth has come at great cost in damage to its people and environment.”

Although it seems the economic growth and growth of the tourist industry is on its way back, the environmental problems are not yet on return.

This afternoon I made myself a bit angry, actually sad, about it. For me it seems nobody cares about health and next generations to come and want to LIVE life as well.

My girlfriend calmed me down telling the truth that if we want to change something, we need to start by ourselves.

So, we decided to be mindful and try to be as much as possible aware of environmental care. Just to show there are different ways. The Buddha basically was inspired by nature so let’s try to support nature more.

Planting (fruit) trees, growing organic vegetables, not burning our waste (especially plastics) on the land but to collect our waste and bring it to the government garbage place to collect and maybe even re-use. Use as less as possible plastic (bags), etc.. Indeed, all small things but we have to start somewhere. And yes, in the future sometimes we will have a camp-fire but will use wood free of any chemical.

Although environmental problems (national and worldwide) have risen along with economic growth and urbanization, we want to try to offer with our approach a little contribution to decrease the affected quality of life and greater economic costs.


Frans Captijn

e-mail: pyramidhousethailand@gmail.com