Today i went to hear Mrs. Irma Russell speak. She is an environmental activist from the University of Tulsa.
I must say that she is a very nice woman, but she has a tendency to rant a lot. Her powerpoint was not working properly. Consequently, she had to wing it. As a result, the discussion veered off into several directions, namely toward the different definition of rhetoric.
I do feel that i gained something though. She proposed the statement that it is impossible to truly know everything about anything. This is undeniably a true statement. If you try to learn everything then you end up wasting all of your time thinking and none of it acting. So, nothing gets done.
The conversation finally turned back to the environment. We discussed sustainability, which is, in this topic at least, the ability to sustain life. Companies are now preaching this term to try and stay afloat in this dog eat dog world.
She then used a term which I was not familiar with: intergenerational equity. This term was defined by Mrs. Russell as preseving this world for our progeny. It's a beautiful term and should be used quite a bit more in the world when talking about our environment.
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I know what you are talking about. I do not like it either when people give speaches or make presentations and they are not properly prepared. For instance, when their visual or acoustic aids are not working. You know that you will have to make a presentation so it is your job do prepare but sometimes there are also things that could happen which one cannot foretell; for example, some of one aids could break but one still should be so well prepared that one could go on.
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