I started getting sad about climate change two years ago after seeing Planet Earth and many documentaries. I completely changed my lifestyle to reduce my part and put significant effort into it.
But seeing rich celebrities who use as much as a common man’s lifetime resources in a week or two, and others who barely put in any effort to combat it, and corporations fucking the entire planet for quarterly profits, barely any efforts towards fighting it even though we had known about its consequences 30-40 years ago, I get this feeling that my efforts are even worth it.
Slowly, I told myself that evolution failed itself by giving a bit more individual selfishness over community/species survival. Just like human beings, Earth’s time has started to end. Its death is inevitable. Everything should come to an end. Only if evolution had given a bit more thought to species survival, we would be in a much better place.
How do you all deal with this?
I started to care about it until I learned and discovered that we aren’t dealing with recyclables as well as we should. We’ve been hampering people for decades to recycle, recycle and recycle. Some good have came from recycling, it has. But damn, we’re not really doing enough as people think and it’s a damn shame that truth is just shelved so we can keep lying to people about recycling.
I as an individual, realize I can only do so much, but I feel it is still in the responsibility and accountability of big corps and other companies that need to really step up more since they’re bigger than me. I just think it’s irresponsible of them to have it fall on the shoulders of average joe to clean everything up, when BP barely lifts a finger to fix it’s own shit. How is it entirely my fault about how bad climate change has getting?
So you know what, I’ll still take some of my own responsibility, yet until I see these corps and companies work double time to fulfill their end of the table, I’m just going to be a little lax on it.
The thing about recycling is, that it is only the third of the 3 Rs. The first one is Reduce and that’s also the one that would have the most effect, but nobody wants that…