Attention to the needed mentality
We were moving in the right direction, if still too slowly, but we are now in reverse
This new Substack is planned to publish articles about the environment that we all need to have around us in a functional state.
It may sound obvious to some, that the environment is functional: after all, we are here, have been here for millions of years, and we will be here long into the future…
Or will we?
Despite a galloping global heating, leading to severe consequences such as more storms, tornados, rain, draft, and other problems, depending on where on Earth you are, and very severe consequences for low, costal-near areas and islands, which may be swallowed completely by the oceans before long, politicians of today tend to ignore the factors that create these consequences.
Fossil fuels are still burned, more oil is pumped out of their million-year long stow-away areas underground and converted into CO2 and various pollutions. Datacenters and other IT infrastructure is consuming enormous amounts of energy, often produced in polluting ways, and they are consuming the sparse supplies of drinkable freshwater for their cooling. Even the individual households keep accumulating more energy consuming devices, thereby constantly increasing their power consumption.
Plastic is everywhere, literally! Even inside the smallest of organisms, and the biggest, and inside us humans, everywhere on the planet, there is now microplastic – you can’t look at a sample of anything without seeing it! – and there are vast amounts of larger pieces continuously thrown everywhere, on land and in the oceans.
Chemical pollution continues to threaten the water resources: our blue planet is covered with water, more than enough for everybody on it to get what is needed for drinking. And yet, we have managed to pollute almost all of it to a level where it is to be considered poisonous.
And what do people do about all this?
They watch comedy shows on TV, make wars with each other, plan their careers, and continue their lives as if nothing was wrong. Some people, who can afford it, buy “organic” vegetables or similar, but that really is a drop in the ocean – we need to do a lot more for our environment, if we should be able to survive much longer.
We were here millions of years ago. Will we still be here just hundreds of years more? With our current way of life, that is doubtful. Actually, it’s unlikely.