I see the beauty but I also see how it’s all dying because people can’t be bothered to stop burning fossil fuels for their own convenience. “This isn’t a national park, it’s a tomb.”
I know it’s more complicated and nuanced then that, but boil it down getting rid of everyone’s excuses and it’s basically just too many people ignorantly trading their future for their now. Not to mention all of the forests within a days walk/bike from me have been completely clear cut at least once since the settler-colonial era.
Seeing our world in the state it’s in as “beautiful” is a bit obtuse, like it’s only beautiful if you ignore all the environmental destruction, overdose deaths and general ignorance of basic human rights for a majority of the global population. I can only be happy if I’m actively working towards making this rock a nicer place, and in that sense I can only be truly happy if I succeed.
There’s a lot of work to be done, now more so then ever, and “positive” outlooks like this can hamper ones ability to realize it. Sorry if I burst your bubble, but, well, you were in a bubble.
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My provincial government sells license plates that are themed after national parks. People buy them and those funds are used for park management. It’s really fucking ironic because the majority of those vehicles are powered by gasoline and directly contributed to human-caused wildfires that destroyed a large portion of the parks and less directly to almost 6 million climate change related deaths across the globe, mostly in poorer countries that people apparently don’t give a shit about.
I see the beauty but I also see how it’s all dying because people can’t be bothered to stop burning fossil fuels for their own convenience. “This isn’t a national park, it’s a tomb.”
I know it’s more complicated and nuanced then that, but boil it down getting rid of everyone’s excuses and it’s basically just too many people ignorantly trading their future for their now. Not to mention all of the forests within a days walk/bike from me have been completely clear cut at least once since the settler-colonial era.
Seeing our world in the state it’s in as “beautiful” is a bit obtuse, like it’s only beautiful if you ignore all the environmental destruction, overdose deaths and general ignorance of basic human rights for a majority of the global population. I can only be happy if I’m actively working towards making this rock a nicer place, and in that sense I can only be truly happy if I succeed.
There’s a lot of work to be done, now more so then ever, and “positive” outlooks like this can hamper ones ability to realize it. Sorry if I burst your bubble, but, well, you were in a bubble.
…
My provincial government sells license plates that are themed after national parks. People buy them and those funds are used for park management. It’s really fucking ironic because the majority of those vehicles are powered by gasoline and directly contributed to human-caused wildfires that destroyed a large portion of the parks and less directly to almost 6 million climate change related deaths across the globe, mostly in poorer countries that people apparently don’t give a shit about.