According to NASA’s Clean Air Study, the Snake Plant is so
effective in producing oxygen that if you were locked in a sealed room w2ith no
airflow (Yikes!), you would be able to survive with just 6-8 plants in it. NASA
recommends 15 to 18 medium-to-large size plants for a 1,800 square-foot home
for optimum air quality.
Besides, they are wonderful and soothing to look at.
Alcibiades was
a citizen of Athens about 450 BC, known for crafty, dishonest political antics during
the time when Athens and Sparta had agreed that constant conflict and wars was not
good for either. He was a powerful politician, sort of the “speaker” of the
governing body such that he determined what came before the body and when the votes
would occur.
The peaceful
time between the two superpowers was not durable, it was delicate and subject
to disruption. Alcibiades decided to take a trip to Peloponnesia which, while
not claimed by Sparta was still not open to an Athenian citizen to go meddling.
Sure enough,
there was a conflict, it escalated and good ol’ Alcibiades who was known as a
bad actor before decided to change his loyalty and became a Spartan. People
died.
This tale
was told recently as a metaphor for what is happening, uselessly, in Taiwan. The
journalist who wrote it was much more skillful than I am, but the idea is the
same. I cannot locate the original article, sorry.
Hopefully,
our version of the distasteful, untrustworthy politician will not result in the
loss of life like Alcibiades’ actions, but you never know. For sure, it is
needless.
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons
of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
Aldous Huxley
