I remember listening to Peter Gabriel’s song "Red Rain" and visualizing, well, red rain. I realized that—
Something must be done…
I remember watching Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth and sitting, gobsmacked, at the implications. I realized that—
Something must be done…
I remember listening to Greta Thunberg’s UN and TED talks in 2019. I was enamored with her courage and resilience. But as I reflected on her words again recently, I was saddened because her boldness seemed to bounce off the universe. I realized that—
Something must be done…
I remember participating in The Week in 2024. As I reflected on one of the questions—Visualize the world I’ll be leaving to my grandchildren in 25 years. How does that make you feel? I realized that—
Something must be done…
The Week has had a profound impact on me, centered on the questions and visualization I mentioned above. I became quite emotional when I thought of the world I was leaving to my children and grandchildren. About the lack of accountability and stewardship that I and my ~7 billion partners had shown to our mother.
I have a good friend who tells me that advancing technology development could help discover solutions to the root causes destroying our Mother Earth. Solutions that will quickly and magically revert and clean everything up. Part of me wants to believe that we (humans) can create (new technology) that can repair the damage from our (old technology), but it’s hard to believe it.
That is the part that WE have the intelligence and wisdom to see and undo what we’ve done. Particularly since the trending is awful, we would have to conclude that Mother Earth is in peril now, and it’s our (all 7 billion of us) number 1 priority to work on fixing the damage.
What I don’t understand is why so few people are in that mind space now. Can’t they see the trends—the fires, the storms, the famine, the heat, the drought? Can’t they see the inequity of the impacts to so many countries? Don’t they miss the species we’ve destroyed?
I wonder if we’ll ever see it before it’s too late.
I sure hope so…
#weshouldbebetterhumansthanthis
Agile Moose