I believe this experience with the Corona-virus is a wake-up call to the damage humans are doing to this planet.
Words have never been enough. We have refused to listen.
Now that there is so much quarantine and shelter-in-place… all those touristic areas in the world are sending out photos… of all the health and beauty… that is coming back.
It should give us all reason to pause… and contemplate… one simple fact.
We ARE NOT ONE. WE ARE MANY.
One… cannot destroy the world… without the exception of any single Idiot in Power that would choose to order firing nuclear weapons.
But Many… can dirty up the water so badly you can’t see the bottom. You can’t even see the damn fish!
Many… can ride something mechanical… enough to fill the air with such incredible amounts of toxic fumes… you can’t even see… or breathe.
Many… can crowd transportation sights… enough that nobody can move. Consider your local Airport(s). Now realize… every Airport in the whole world.
Many… can stop traffic with cars that jam the flow. Consider your own city or town. Now realize… every city or town.
Many… can board humongous cruise ships with… One that brings serious illness… to everybody on-board. You ARE NOT above… being that One.
Consider the Port available where you board. Now realize… all the Ports in the world.
If anything should be dying right now… it should be all those pathetic ‘Me… Me… Me’ attitudes and dispositions.
If anything should be dying right now… it should be the pathetic Lifestyle of Convenience… manufactured with plastic and paper.
If anything should be dying right now… it should be the Corporate Transportation Industry mentality of… ‘bigger is better’. Seriously… do you really need so many different models of your brand?
Look at the bone yards of metal… YOU are creating.
If anything should be dying right now… it should be Production According to Demand structures in business of any kind. Period.
Greed is killing this planet… and creating one hell of a nasty mess. Be it Wholesale… Retail… or… even worse… Personal.
Yes… Personal. Do the math. You give them the excuse.
Look at the sloppy… pig-headed… unconscionable waste and INCONVENIENCE it is TRULY creating. The trash in the oceans. The Landfills… which you build residential neighborhoods on top of… which fills the damn hospitals and cemeteries.
No matter which way you work the numbers. No matter which way you try to… design… the social impact. What we are all experiencing right now… is the bottom line result.
Just because we can… DOES NOT always mean we should.
Let this experience with the Coronavirus teach us all to reclaim the truth.
WE ARE NOT ONE. WE ARE MANY.