If there is one topic we should agree on, it is this
earth is a living organism
and if it dies.. we die.
I picked my nephew Tommy from school last week
usually a happpy kid but
today Tommy had a frown on the face has he walked to the car
as he got in the passengers seat I said
T whats wrong?
he said uncle
why don't people get it?
I said get what.. what do you mean?
He said the need to take care of our environment
it's so obvious .
Well, break it down for me.
"He said trees clean the air.
Trees clean the air.
Man builds factories
Factories poison the air. Man destroys trees.
Man breathes the air
Man breath the air
Man, Dies"
Wow!
and after I pick my job off the ground from here
one of the most profound statements from anyone
let alone a nine year old child and I said,
"then I guess factories will rule the Earth."
We both awkwardly laughed
Later night, I couldn't help but comtemplate
Will this truly be humanity's fate
Shall we be the accomplices to our own destruction
victims of our own corruption, ambition And over consumption.
Like a man addicted to drugs. Every societies thinks that
can't happen to them
Until it does
We are the most advanced species that ever exist but sometimes I wonder if some future alien culture would
look back on us as natures failed experiment
evolutions, could have been
you don't like that basketball player everybody said was better than Jordan
but never reached his peak because he got caught up in the streets
Will we, be another example of wasted potential
I don't mean to go existential but everyday corporations
sell millions of smartphones, smart TVs even, smart water.
But smart people seem to be constantly on back order
Maybe thats an over simplification
or an understatement, none the less
the fact remains that, we human beings make machines to fix problems that,
we created
everything we do is over complicated by design
I mean theres 19 damn ingredients that go into McDonald's fries
my god, why do we chose greed over need, profit over people,
Price over cost
Sufficient over efficient
If this is the quintessential definition of intelligence then,
where can I sign up to be primitive
I remember when, my science teacher told me that asteroids
were the cause of extinction
Today its us
Thanks to man-made
climate change 100 innocent species
Go extinct everyday
Yet many continue to deny it
Refusing to take an honest look at the science well,
To you sceptics please allow me to analogise it
Close your eyes and imagine that you're on a plane with 100 pilots
97 of them say
we are headed disaster if we do not change course and re-route it
3 of them say eh, they're all lying it's a conspiracy
Don't worry about it
Even if you believe those 3 pilots are correct, wouldn't you take precaution anyway
Just a head your bet
well this is the same situation we face with climate change
2000 scientists and 200 different countries have concluded the same thing
That we all in a crash course for devastation
and if we do not pump the breaks
Spaceship Earth, won't make it
The time is now we can not delay
If you were on the Titanic and you could see the iceberg in advance wouldn't you try to move the heck out the way
It is too late to be pessimistic
It is time to innovate
It is time to stop fighting the old system and start creating a new system
Where we support organisations and technologies that not only have sustainability but,
thriveability as the endeavour
We will get out of this mess like we've always gotten out of things
Together
Togetherness is the solution we require
And once we realise the power we have together
For the second time mankind
Will have discovered fire
and he will shine bright as a species and all of his brilliance
Finally arriving
At an equilibrium