From an early age, we’re taught to blame others for our problems. I think it starts with innocent embarrassment but somewhere along the way it transforms into active ignorance.
And it’s a serious issue. One that is destroying the way we live. And where we live.
So I’m just going to lay it out for you.
We have completely fucked our environment. It’s on us. All of it.
The record-breaking hurricanes, destructive wildfires and deadly earthquakes. The hotter-than-hot summers, the draughts, the extinction of species.
We did it. It’s not Mother Nature retaliating for the election of Trump, as funny as that might seem. It’s not her being revengeful. It’s nothing more than human-caused climate change.
The scientists, the ones we trust to tell us everything, are in consensus on that.
And just because our political leaders would rather argue like children about whether science is real than take action doesn’t mean we can sit idly by and watch our world get destroyed.
The sooner we do something, the sooner we can try to change the course of the future.
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What did we think was going to happen when we introduced fossil fuels? Started cutting down trees for high-rises? Mass producing new items as opposed to recycling old ones?
We have drastically altered this earth. Of course, that would have consequence.
Every action does.
And by making this a political problem instead of a human one, we’re begging for these natural disasters to keep happening.
The earth doesn’t choose who inhabits it. It’s home to democrats and republicans, blacks and whites, climate change activists and climate change nay-sayers. It does not discriminate.
So why not protect it? It might just be the only unifying thing we have left.
But honestly, the thing that bothers me most is that it takes almost nothing from us to save our home and conserve it for future generations.
Hell, to conserve it for today’s generations.
Because mother nature isn’t messing around. She’s angry all right. And we’re the ones that pissed her off.
What are you going to do about it?