What Uncle Ben Said

"With great power comes great responsibility."

I love this line. As an avid comic reader, few quotes stick in mind as faithfully as this does. Uncle Ben’s simple but effective words of wisdom serving as a reminder not only to one man (Peter Parker, who else?) but to Man as a species; pointing out what the many years of progress has caused us to forget:

Man is the most powerful and dominant creature that has ever inhabited the Earth. And we need to wield this power wisely.

No, we do not have hands and feet that double up as suction cups for easy scaling of walls just so we can indulge in our latest peeping Tom fantasies. No, we can’t leap 5 meters in the air, somersault, do the splits and end up kicking 300 baddies simultaneously in the face. (Well, most of us can’t at least.) And if you had checked the number of accidents per year, you’d also know that we do not possess a 6^th sense to alert us of the dangers lurking round every corner.

But it’s still true. We have great power. Power that requires wisdom and responsibility to guide it well. Without it…

How do you think global warming started?

Need I say more?

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Thanks for reading! Stay Green!

Cheers,

~Kerry