When I was walking with the dog this evening, I took a few pictures from around the neighbourhood. Spring has just started here, with the trees still not with all of their leaves and there is a lot of dusty brown patches everywhere, but in the evening sunshine, it still looks pretty lovely.
I actually count myself lucky to live in a place where nature is relatively clean, the air is breathable and if game, it would be quite possible to drink from the majority of the lakes without too much hassle - though, I wouldn't do it unless necessary. I have done it once when I had gone for a jog, got dehydrated and started cramping. I drank from the lake and was eating blueberries from the forest. I felt a bit like Bear Grylls, except I wasn't desperate enough to drink my own urine.
Nature is obviously important to our existence, so we really should take better care of it. So much of what is actually important to humanity is destroyed for profit, including our own wellbeing. While I hold little hope for the future, I do believe that the world could be a pretty amazing place if we redirected our attention and resources to doing what grows our wellbeing. This would include all facets of the environment, but also consider the needs of individual health and education, and energy needs and innovation. We spend so much of our potential holding onto and widening the status quo direction, which is always going to end at the same point, our self-destruction.
It saddens me that here we are with the most information we have ever had available and even with the current quality, is enough to make the world brilliant, but we waste it. I get it that a few hundred years ago things were quite different, but today, we should know better. Instead, we just keep on doing much the same as those who have come before us, just with better, more destructive tools to do it more efficiently. We are great at polluting. We are great at killing each other. We are great at putting profit first.
It is pretty pathetic really, but as I walk around the neighbourhood, this is what I think about. All the opportunity in the world, yet we waste it. I don't think we are ever going to get over our flaws fast enough to stop the inevitability of our self-destruction, and I don't think most people will even try. When I talk to people, despite them wanting a better world, most seem reigned to staying the course, because it is easier. We are choosing to go down with the ship, while we are drilling into the hull.
Taraz
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