Eric Sevareid is quoted as saying “The chief cause of problems is solutions.”
- 2,000,000 tires were used as an artificial reef in the 1970s, but they became a detriment to marine life and now 700,000 are planned for retrieval.
- Environmental groups have worked so hard to stop timber companies from maintaining and harvesting trees that the companies had to divest their land to developers who just wiped out the forests for housing.
- Reseeding has been common following wildfires, but due to expediency the seeds are fast growing, invasive, typically non-native plants that become a problem to the local environment.
EDIT: I forgot to post my point.
Next time you are digging under a console trying to get the media system running on Sunday morning or trying to sort out a huge patchwork of cables, or figuring out why your files are disordered, or have volunteers griping to each other about the crummy system; remember this quote.
There are three locations in the church building that regularly bring this quote to mind. But things there are so fouled up that fixing them is a scary endeavor. Makes you want to travel back a few years and set up a system and procedures that would keep the current reality from happening.
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