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Now I’m sure you’ve heard of the phenomenon that is ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’. Something that apparently is driven by our behaviour here on earth. So, if using fossil fuels is so bad that it endangers our existence, how can we just continue on with our lives, like nothing’s happening? Why are there no restrictions? No laws?
I don’t understand how everyone keeps saying that climate change is an existential crisis that is the most important of all. However, everyone seems to carry on as they would normally thinking it will magically be solved on its own. If the carbon emissions have to stop, then we must be the ones to stop them. I don’t understand how people don’t even believe this is happening. It is as clear as black and white. When it comes to the survival of us and our planet, there is no grey area. Either we continue to survive, or we don’t. And if we want to continue to survive, we have to change.
You would think that the media and government would be focused on this crisis, and talk about nothing else. Yet, it seems to never really become a subject of conversation. Neither does the fact that we now face the sixth mass extinction. Today’s extinction rate is 1 000 to 10 000 times higher than normal. Meaning that every single day 200 species fall extinct.
So, if we know all this, why are we not reducing our what we release into the atmosphere? Why are the emissions actually still increasing to this very day? Is it that we are knowingly killing our planet and letting our existence go with it? The truth is that most people don’t understand the real consequences of their daily life. I mean how could we know? If we did really cause this crisis then there would at least be signs. I mean apart from melting polar ice caps, rising oceans, dying reefs, hurricanes, flooded cities, tens of thousands of people dead and nations filled with piles of torn down buildings. Of course, it would be hard to see how this is affecting the planet. And yet, no one seems to be talking about it. No one seems to be acting like we are in the midst of a existential crisis.
Earlier this year I attended the school-strike for climate. Some people said to me that I shouldn’t skip school. That if I really cared about the environment I would stay at school so could learn and one day solve climate change. But, we have already found the solution for climate change. All we have to do is actually start doing it.
Now people like to talk about hope. They say, ‘what about solar panels and wind mills and all that stuff’. The past 30 years all we’ve talked about is hope and in the future how this will all change. I’m down with the inspiring and positive ideas. If this was the solution than it would’ve worked by now. But it didn’t. But we still do need that hope. And we also need action. So please, instead of looking for hope and thinking somehow someone will change everything, look for action and change. Because whatever everyone else is fighting for here today: racism, sexism, LGBTQ+ rights, discrimination, or any type of equality, none of it will even matter because if we don't all work together to save this planet, there will be nothing left. We need to take action, and we need to take it now.
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