ErikViking
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For you who have spent some time in the nature, be it the sea, in the mountains, in the snow or deep in the forest. You know that sinking feeling in the stomach when a situation that in a minute ago was under control, fun or even exiting - how it suddenly turns bad. The little shift when nature shows it's unforgiving face and you realise how small we are.
That's the feeling you should have regarding the environment. No, it can't be fixed. Not by us. No, we can't predict the details. No one knows exactly. It's always that sign you missed that was the tell.
But what you can assume is this:
It is time to minimise our footprint. Beware of our actions. Reduce our intervention.
I don't believe for a second that we can "mend" what might have been skewed. Every time we try, something else goes wrong. Save the otter, - oh, the sea lion went extinct. Change a rivers flow to bring water here, - oh, we made a desert there. Nature is just a bit too complex. Trying to "calculate" the outcome of this or that action is futile. Take a step back, observe and gentle, humble, manoeuvering might work.
But to keep, or increase the burning of fossils, depletion of rainforests and pollution of the seas, flooring the pedal - well - that arrogance is going to be a killer for sure. And the spear that finally gets us will come as a surprise.
That's the feeling you should have regarding the environment. No, it can't be fixed. Not by us. No, we can't predict the details. No one knows exactly. It's always that sign you missed that was the tell.
But what you can assume is this:
It is time to minimise our footprint. Beware of our actions. Reduce our intervention.
I don't believe for a second that we can "mend" what might have been skewed. Every time we try, something else goes wrong. Save the otter, - oh, the sea lion went extinct. Change a rivers flow to bring water here, - oh, we made a desert there. Nature is just a bit too complex. Trying to "calculate" the outcome of this or that action is futile. Take a step back, observe and gentle, humble, manoeuvering might work.
But to keep, or increase the burning of fossils, depletion of rainforests and pollution of the seas, flooring the pedal - well - that arrogance is going to be a killer for sure. And the spear that finally gets us will come as a surprise.