Perversely, we are destroying it, ourselves & our Biosphere. Wars, poverty & famine are everyday news items. But it is the wanton & knowing destruction through our pollution of our world which is really frightening & heart rending. This is what has the capacity to ultimately destroy all of us.
Watch "Drowning in Plastic" and tell me I'm wrong.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bmbn47
Watch "Fashions Dirty Secret" and tell me I'm wrong.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bn6034/stacey-dooley-investigates-fashions-dirty-secrets
We knew smoking kills & we did something about it.
We knew drink driving kills & we did something about it.
Both came down to individuals' choice to change behaviour & to government legislation. It worked, so don't tell me there is nothing you personally can do. I believe we have reached the tipping point. There is no time to prevaricate. Comprehensive action needs to happen NOW.
Our desire for more & more "stuff", for constant change, multiple choice & self gratification has led to this. The most uninhabited & inacessible parts of the world are now contaminated by our demands & the recklessness of multinational companies. Plastic is literally everywhere, the furthest poles & the deepest oceans. Rivers are so contaminated they kill. The air we breathe is beyond safe levels.
I've got a limited time left, but my grandchildren could live for 70 or more years. What in gods name is their legacy from us. A toxic world - Complete self destruction. And it won't take anything like 70 years.
We have more access to information than anyone ever has. We cannot pretend we didn't know. We are a throw away society & we are doing just that - Throwing away our world & everything in it.
We must be completely mad.
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