You are right. We're killing the planet in pursuit of personal comfort. By that, I mean acquiring personal wealth at the expense of everything else. Until that is turned around in the human psyche, we will continue down this path of destruction we're on. I think it will take a major global disaster to wake the humans up someday, and until it happens, things will continue as they are.
I, too, have spent a lot of my younger days near or on the oceans of the world and I would sorely miss them if they became uninhabitable.
Humans have a very strange habit of ignoring future problems until they become unavoidable.
The larger and more impactful the issue, the further into denial we sink. Eventually, we suffer for our own behaviour. We're the only animals on the planet that destroy our own ecosystem for short-term ephemeral gain. We made up the concept of money, and we'll obliterate ourselves and cause untold heartache to obtain more of it.
The one thing us humans are really good at is shitting in our own nest.
New Zealand has miles of rugged coastline and when I was younger and much more mobile than I am today I wandered all over the North Island beaches. I love the sound of the sea, but with global warming and climate change living within the sound of the sea has become a dangerous place to be here in my country. The after effects of Cyclone Gabrielle (Feb 2023) are still being felt in our East Coast communities.
You are right. We're killing the planet in pursuit of personal comfort. By that, I mean acquiring personal wealth at the expense of everything else. Until that is turned around in the human psyche, we will continue down this path of destruction we're on. I think it will take a major global disaster to wake the humans up someday, and until it happens, things will continue as they are.
I, too, have spent a lot of my younger days near or on the oceans of the world and I would sorely miss them if they became uninhabitable.
Humans have a very strange habit of ignoring future problems until they become unavoidable.
The larger and more impactful the issue, the further into denial we sink. Eventually, we suffer for our own behaviour. We're the only animals on the planet that destroy our own ecosystem for short-term ephemeral gain. We made up the concept of money, and we'll obliterate ourselves and cause untold heartache to obtain more of it.
It's a unique failing of our species.
The one thing us humans are really good at is shitting in our own nest.
New Zealand has miles of rugged coastline and when I was younger and much more mobile than I am today I wandered all over the North Island beaches. I love the sound of the sea, but with global warming and climate change living within the sound of the sea has become a dangerous place to be here in my country. The after effects of Cyclone Gabrielle (Feb 2023) are still being felt in our East Coast communities.