At least 13 years ago my husband, now departed, foretold the consequences of our unsustainable way of life & destruction of the planet. He was a "glass half empty" person & thought that our selfish lifestyles would result in consequences so grave that there would be public unrest & rioting in the streets. He wanted us to consider what we would do if he was right. He thought we should be prepared to commit suicide in extremis.
I was not that negative.
At the time I was working with a man who was possibly a genius. (Also a manic depressive). But he knew far more than me about climate change & had the skills to design & build a "passive haus" & develop technology to deal with no fossil fuels.
Now I know far more having been closely involved with NGO's like Greenpeace, Client Earth, Population Matters, Plantlife & Shelter Box......Now I really fear for the future of my 16 year old grandchildren. They are going to inherit the depleted world we have created since man started to till the earth & went on to create the Industrial Revolution.
There is nothing more important than this. Although we are intelligent & inventive & probably have the skills to put right a lot of the havoc we have created, there is very little time.
There isn't time for "talking shops" & posturing. There isn't time for signing pledges & not fulfilling them. There isn't time to carry on with "business as usual" for a bit.
This is a question of survival - for every living thing on this planet.
Once we are gone, unless we are daft enough to bomb ourselves out of existance & contaminate the whole world, the wonderful world ecosystem will regenerate itself.
Then, just possibly, this beautiful world will evolve & survive. Without the contaminating hand of greedy, self serving, money obsessed humans.
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