| 3 days ago the British hedgehog has been officially classified as vulnerable to extinction. On the same day we had temperatures of 53°C (127°F) in Iraq. These are temperatures where normal human life is no longer possible and when plants and animals start dying. We have a climate emergency, and we had it for a long time. At the rate we are going more than half the species that live on our beautiful Earth will become extinct. Please try to visualize that for a moment, and imagine that half of the living creatures of our planet will be just gone. I don’t want that. |  |
No matter where you come from, how old you are, what you are voting, no matter if you are sick or healthy, poor or rich, this is a problem that we all have to face right now, and not “when covid is over”, or “next year”, or “in due time”.
When you do online searches you will find plenty of ways to help solving the climate problem. Some suggestions will be annoying, aggravating, others will make sense, most of it is going to require personal sacrifice and effort.
I have no intention to patronize anyone and claim that considering what’s at stake, and how comfortable we are in comparison to previous generations, or compared to people living in developing countries, that these sacrifices may not be such a great deal.
To us, to the people of the West, adjusting to climate change will feel like the end of the world before the world could even end, because it means having to change the way we are used to doing what even do.
We love to consume, we love to eat (too much), we love to be lazy and comfortable, and we love to be perma-entertained, and we absolutely hate change.
Countering climate change will take away much of our modern comforts, it will inevitably change our diet, and we will have to use our legs for walking much more.
However, I’m not going to write down a list of the things that we should or could do to fix our climate problem. I’m sure everyone who is still reading is already doing something, if not as much as they possibly can anyway. Everyone is sick of “5 things that you can do right now to lower your personal CO2 footprint”.
I want to tell you that we can fix this by allowing ourselves to be true to the noble and kind nature we have as human beings, and despite of the negative and acid things we do and did inside of our weird social constructs, we are all capable of compassion.
When you do online searches you will find plenty of ways to help solving the climate problem. Some suggestions will be annoying, aggravating, others will make sense, most of it is going to require personal sacrifice and effort.
I have no intention to patronize anyone and claim that considering what’s at stake, and how comfortable we are in comparison to previous generations, or compared to people living in developing countries, that these sacrifices may not be such a great deal.
To us, to the people of the West, adjusting to climate change will feel like the end of the world before the world could even end, because it means having to change the way we are used to doing what even do.
We love to consume, we love to eat (too much), we love to be lazy and comfortable, and we love to be perma-entertained, and we absolutely hate change.
Countering climate change will take away much of our modern comforts, it will inevitably change our diet, and we will have to use our legs for walking much more.
However, I’m not going to write down a list of the things that we should or could do to fix our climate problem. I’m sure everyone who is still reading is already doing something, if not as much as they possibly can anyway. Everyone is sick of “5 things that you can do right now to lower your personal CO2 footprint”.
I want to tell you that we can fix this by allowing ourselves to be true to the noble and kind nature we have as human beings, and despite of the negative and acid things we do and did inside of our weird social constructs, we are all capable of compassion.
| Even if you hated everyone else, including yourself, try to not to hate hedgehogs, whales, giraffes or bumblebees. These guys don’t deserve any of this misery. Mending the fever of our Earth has to start by allowing yourself to relate to her pain. There is an urge to care for our wounded, sick and weak. This is in us, it’s part of our raw code. You feel it when you find a bird with a broken wing, or when a hedgehog got lost at your doortstep at the end of autumn. If you allow yourself to do what comes natural to you as the creature you are, you will always be compassionate, and you will help. |  |