Tomorrow

Growing up in Puerto Rico, I always imagined the mainland to be close to perfect in terms of, well, everything. Often times the mainland is romanticized in Puerto Rico for having better jobs, infrastructure, and lifestyle in general. Because of this, there has been a consistent steady outflow or exodus of Puerto Rican citizens moving to the states (my mother actually just moved to Maryland) in hopes of a higher lifestyle. This is why I found it so interesting to watch the documentary Tomorrow (Demain), because one of the things it demonstrated is that everything is obviously not figured out yet in the states.
            Watching how in Detroit there is a large number of people struggling to find food to eat, and the efforts of the small urban farms to fix that versus the pros and cons of large industrial farms was just very impacting in general. The point when the documentary brought us to Copenhagen and then eventually India, it made me remember how much we could learn from the rest of the world, and how the mainland is far from perfect. It’s easy to go back to the romanticized ideas of the states I heard so much about as a child living in Puerto Rico, but as time goes on it’s important to consider what everywhere else in the world is to contribute. We are far from the best democracy, far from the best economy, and far from the best in a great many things besides military spending.

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