The Earth is billions of years old. In those billions of years, the Earth created fossil fuels. Within 300 years of the Industrial Revolution, we are on pace to use up nearly all of what the Earth created over those billions of years. That’s staggering to consider.
I would like to spend my climate fight on two inarguable points, because if we get these two points right, we solve so much of what we are doing to harm the planet. And we ARE harming the planet. When we use all of its resources and create products that have only a planet-harming life after consumption, we are at fault and must work to correct our mistakes. So here’s what I’d focus on:
- We have to make a plan to end our dependency on fossil fuels. I’m not saying we have to stop tomorrow, but we MUST have a plan. Corporations will not offer up such a collective plan, so our government – for the sake of a planet we are only borrowing from our children – must make a plan to end our dependency, and it must come with a time limit of not more than 20-30 years.
- We must develop a viable alternative to plastics, because plastics are destroying the planet. When you realize that nearly every fish we eat contains microplastics that it consumed in our oceans, we’ve reached the level of a crisis.
Since when is it bad to care about the planet? Why is it such a political no-no to want the things that are harming the planet to change? I’m not going to feel bad for caring about the planet I leave my children and grandchildren. It’s just not happening. And I will trust the science on all of this, by the way, not a guy on Facebook that read an article.
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