Diversity Event: Eco-mind

     This diversity event was absolutely mind-opening to attend. The speaker Frances Moore Lappe, the author of seventeen  well-sold books, taught everyone about the way we think needs to be changed to improve our agriculture and other aspects of life. Her inspiring messages includes: "Believing is seeing", "Hope is not what we find in evidence, it is what we become in action", and "We don't see what we don't expect to see." All of her stories had proved these points in a empowering way, and she really showed us what we can do for the world.
     She started all of her unforgettable journey out with a simple question, "Why are we together creating a world that we as individuals would never choose?" This question propelled her to go out and discover what is in need to be done and changed for the better. She claimed there's something called a scarcity mind and a eco-mind. The first mindset is what's happening right now within the United States and the latter is what's necessary to be changed to.
     The scarcity mind has the strong characteristics of feeling powerlessness and never have enough of anything. Right now, the people here in the country is quicken to struggle to hunger for over-producing of food which is not what our present economy can afford. People have such a slacken and apathetic spirit that they just sit there and complain and not doing anything to help. The distrust of government had made the country even more cynical in beliefs.
     On the other hand, the speaker took a positive turn and brought up the central point of her speech, eco-mind. What this is basically encouraging us to obtain the capacity for fairness, cooperation and efficacy, also capable of deliberative problem solving, and free from private wealth, and emphasize our democracy. For these goals to be established, there will be no waste of anything, every small input is useful.
     Her speech mostly revolved around the agricultural industry and how people's lives in other countries were changed dramatically just from one small initiation. Whether's it's decreasing the release of green house gases, inplanting of trees, or pesticides inhibition, all of these interesting stories she told were mind-blowing and inspiring. One of my favorite last comment of hers was "It's not possible to know what's possible."