This isn’t just a usual take on climate change, its horrendously evident impact on wildlife, biodiversity, and mankind. Climate change is a term we’ve fixed for everything going on our planet that is almost heading in the opposite direction of the harmonious and serene image our children books painted and the golden days we pictured for a futuristic world.
Climate change
noun
a change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.
It is a change that has been taking place for centuries now, the world has always been changing physically, ecologically and even metaphorically. Civilizations have been built to fall in decades, scribes have been scratched on walls for a lone man to come across it and call himself God and here we are still bowing down.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”
Greta Thunberg needs no introduction if you’re the right person. My interest lies not in how we can make grand protests to spread awareness. Everyone knows plastic is bad, they know littering on streets and parks is an offence, they know contributing to the dangerously high carbon emissions is their own poison. People know exactly what is bad, yet they don’t do it because now especially, listening to the young generation – listening to the angry mass of young children pleading for change from their government – is beneath them, young kids and teenagers and the millenials are not taken seriously because how dare someone younger than the world leaders and hopeless politicians and the parents, the baby boomers – how dare they make sense?
The government thrives off its corporations and large manufacturers, and it is vice-versa. As much as the fault started off from the big companies and their money-mongering tendencies, the consumer is to blame as well. We’re talking about large scale consumerism, of plastics, of fast fashion, of everything we don’t actually need but desperately want it for a 3-hour satisfaction that will eventually subside. As we buy, they will continue to make. The resources will be leached off, the labour (inhumane in some countries) will never stop, the PLASTIC, the non-biodegradable objects will be used.
Here, we can teach, we can preach to these people by appealing to their sensitivities and ego by pleading and emphasising how Consumerism is pushing us further into the death of the planet. Here, we don’t become an object of mockery and criticism by showing anger and resentment – there is enough on the other side – but through the actual attempts at teaching and sharing our knowledge about how yes, large corporations and companies and governments are damaging our soil but we are the ones failing to save it, instead add more poison to the burning land.
It is truly disturbing to see the world in its state and maybe turning it around is wishful thinking, but prolonging our stay on Earth should be more than hoping to make it to 2050 without the atmosphere looking like a dystopian setting.
Mono 