1.7 Times Change- with Muriel Squires (+ Sam, Ben & Arno)

Muriel Squires:

-No matter how much I learn there is always more to learn.

-There are more people doing more things to help than we’re ever aware of.

-I look at this bunch of stuff and I think, “what am I going to do with it? What can I make?” It really gets the creative juices going far more than if I went out and bought a pattern.

-I think back to my childhood. There were children dying from diphtheria and whooping cough and measles. I could name a dozen diseases. We don’t have to worry about that now. We just have to get children inoculated and Bingo! They don’t get those diseases that kill anymore. That is something that science conquered.

-Beauty makes me happy to be alive. And to create something that is useful and beautiful makes my life worthwhile.

-I think we really need to reassure people, especially children, that we have problems but we have people who are going to solve them. We just have to do our bit, the best we can but not worry.

-People became experts at things that they’d never been trained in. It was all through doing- you do, you learn, you get better at it.

Sam:

-This discussion, especially on the medicine front, that's definitely given me more hope.

-If we continue what we have been doing then climate change is going to be get worse and worse and worse until it is irreversible! So it's depressing to be like: we can't stop it.

-(Muriel's experiences of shopping without disposable packaging) sounds incredible! That sounds like a really good idea that we should definitely do. I don't know why we stopped doing it.

-Do not expect change when you do not help. Expect change when you help. Cause if you think "I've just one person" - people will look at each other to see what they are doing and no-one will be doing anything! So: be the change you want to see. I want to see way more refill places. And I also would like to see an improvement in climate change and more learning by doing. And I support renewable energy, absolutely, 100%, all the way.

Arno:

-When I was the boys' age we were more self-sufficient. We valued what we had, be it possessions or time. We looked after things and they were repairable.

Ben:

-(Muriel's perspective) really says a lot about how we live in the world can be improved and how we effect the earth

-(when asked if he'd rather be trusted with more chores and responsibility, or lose some): trusted with more of them, absolutely. I'd be really happy because it's something that I need to be able to do.

-In our community I would like to see more involvement, like school fieldtrips to go actually help in some community event.