What are you willing to do...to be continued

What are you willing to (continue to) do in order to have clean air fit to breathe?

As we witness the unintended c.v.19 consequence of making our air breathable, of wild animals thriving, of fish becoming visible in waters clearing, of stunning views of the Himalayan mountains from 100 miles away, and now as we begin to ‘re’open our grubby money-making abilities, I want to ask you: “What are you willing to do to ensure we have clean air to breathe?”

What are you willing to do to allow life to be sustained on our planet? We know – thank you to our governments’ response to the c.v. threat – what we HAVE to do, we’ve witnessed what NEEDS to be done at least to begin the sustaining of life.

Before c.v. 19 we knew what we capitalist humans were doing to destroy our air, to pollute our water, to decimate our forests, to rape Mother Earth, to kill life on our planet. And we didn’t care – as long as we were making money, as long as we could purchase the things we’ve deemed not just necessary but imperative for our lives. We didn’t care our food was laced with pesticides, our soils decimated by herbicides, our waters heavily sullied with plastics and chemicals. We didn’t care that humans around the world didn’t have enough to eat because we have seized more than enough, that some didn’t have a home while the rest of us have more than one home or at least more than one empty room – at least we did not care enough to do the simple but radical things to change our lives in order to end our wanton destruction of life.

Before c.v. 19 we knew we were rapidly ending life on Mother Earth but we told ourselves we couldn’t change so quickly, it was impossible to end our destructive practices so quickly, that we needed time to make changes. Or we told ourselves we were powerless to change, to impact our government, to control our corporations.

We told ourselves it wasn’t our pursuit of the amerikkkan nitemare fault, it was the fault of the sheer number of humans on the planet, their fault, those 2/3’s of humans on the planet that survive on less than $2 a day.

But now we know, we have clear evidence right before our very own eyes. We don’t have to depend on main stream or alternative or social media: we can see our skylines, we can see our mountains, we can see our animals, birds, insects.

What are you willing to do to make sure we continue at the very least, and expand this sacred practice of protecting life on our planet?