An eco-justice rant

Todays ecological musings
For the last 13 months I have been actively trying to bring myself closer to the earth and also to have a lighter footprint on our planet.
Majority of the American population today believes in climate change, myriad have felt it, and actually lots of people have actually died from it or survived only to lose their homes and or home places. Wildfires, hurricanes, sea level rise on the Atlantic and gulf coasts. Since there’s no gen Ed class on climate change that everybody has to take, sometimes we don’t even realize what all climate change brings. The extinction of the Great Barrier Reef, the endangerment of polar bears, and the devastating abundance of little creatures that don’t have charisma enough for us to call them beloved, slip, slip, slidin away.
We are in an extinction event,
But we can’t stop ourselves.


It makes me think of a crass act I heard of recently, of pain, self harm, and pleasure. These actions we as a species are making, though, is much more than crass, they will be our detriment.


So while it’s fairly common for people to say they’re a nature lover, or an environmentalist, or that they’re eco conscious and recycle; I have come to a realization. No matter how much we feel it in our hearts, this care and love, it is a cognitive dissonance to not take stock of our impacts and make some direct changes.


I feel like I wanted to write something hopeful and inspiring and fun but now I feel like I’m wagging my finger at everyone. My stance is firm and blatant, harsh. This tactic doesn’t usually work, as it sadly incorporates shame. “But it is shameful!” I think. Yes, yes it is a shame that we have gotten ourselves into this situation in a routine we have evolved into. These “bad actions” are plainly our native tongue. Disappointing? Yes. Daunting? Absolutely. Impossible? Yet to see.
What can be gained by giving up bad actions, donating and uplifting others and building strong healthy resource stocked interdependent communities, and finding a connection with our earth? A lot. Even if it doesn’t save our planet, I firmly believe that a climate activist life as a natural earthling is a better and more fulfilling lifepath than just holding a positive thought in our heart but keeping on poisoning and hurting ourselves and others. That is what we are giving up (if we have the means to change, I don’t want to exclude people who have barriers to eco activist living—and I hope to provide information and inspiration as to how ANYONE can make good changes.)


Thank you for listening to this Ted talk 😂 I hope it doesn’t deter you from my usual posts (this is a much more vehemently passionate post than my everyday posts.)
Blessings, until next time!