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Young Redwood forest in the Otways, Victoria, Australia 🍂💫✨
"The best time for planting a tree was 30 years ago" speaks to the importance of foresight and taking action in the present to secure a better future. While it's true that planting a tree 30 years ago would have resulted in a fully grown, mature tree today, the fact remains that planting a tree today is still better than planting none at all. Every tree planted today has the potential to provide shade, clean the air, and support wildlife for many years to come. So don't let regret over missed opportunities hold you back from making a positive impact today. Every moment is an opportunity to make a difference, and every tree counts.
Please
When I was younger, the adults in my life told me I could be anything. A doctor, astronaut, ballerina or painter. They said that the world was mine for the taking when I grew up.
But now I’m 16.
And I don’t think I’m going to be able to see the world like my parents do.
Not without knowing that my friends or myself could walk out of the house and down the street but never make it home alive or untainted. Each time we do, one headphone out, keys between fingers, walk fast, keep your eyes alert for any sort of movement, take self defense classes because it is your responsibility not to get raped.
Not without knowing that the food and clothes and material processions I buy are killing the world I call home, destroying it bit by bit. Each time I buy something I have to remind myself that because the people in power seem to think having money will save them from rising ocean levels or super diseases or heightened chances of natural disaster or people deciding that injections designed for their safety cause a genetic disease.
The world my parents and my grand parents and my great grand parents were born into is dying. It is fucking dying. The politicians and ceos and oil barons over 60 won't live to see it, but you are leaving a steaming pile of shit for us to inherit.
and you just don't seem to get it.
We will live here, hopefully for a lot longer
We will probably give birth to and raise children here, but they won't know lush forests or majestic glaciers or stunning ocean veiws
They will know heat, death, drowning and diseases
Dear polictian who doesn't think the climate crisis is real, please think with your brain instead of your wallet
Money doesn't matter anymore when the world is crumbling around you. The sacred bill of green will not stop ice caps melting, or frozen methane reserves bursting into the atmosphere, or wildfires burning through entire states.
It isn't money or bust
It's money and power or life and longevity
Don't pay people into silence
Build a better world and please stop being so selfish
We only have about 12 years to change things
Please, I'm not yelling anymore I'm begging
I want to see the future
If I'm insanely lucky, I might even get a glimpse at the next century
Please, just please
'selfish'
Selfish is a special word to me.
When I first was introduced to the world of politics, issues and injustice, people seemed to use every word except for selfish.
'disagreeable'
'committed to something far less important'
'suspicious'
I don't think that makes sense. Selfish means to think only oneself, to lack consideration for others. In a way being selfish has evolved to mean to preserve oneself at the cost of others emotions or in larger cases, rights.
If an entire country can print 'In God We Trust' on currency, surely we can agree that believing in what seems impossible couldn't be that much of a stretch.
Selfish is the word I think describes those who fail to act
On climate change
On pay gaps both racially and gender based
Even just the gap in rights between anyone
Why on earth in a golden age of technology and prosperity does the term of 'golden age' still only apply to the 1%
It's 2020 people.
Ten years and a 50% chance to change the date on the end of the world.
Stop being so bloody selfish and think about how cool it would be to be remembered for changing things. Instead of being dammed to hell because you refused.
Just, stop and think.
we watched one of her speaches at the UN in class for a seminar and something that really bugged me was that no one ever actually talked about the message she was trying to give. everyone just talked about how she had said she wanted to change things and then "didnt give examples about how to do that". i hadnt noticed this, but once my friend said something i couldnt stop thinking about it. i think its just readdy important that people watch the video and understand what she was actually trying to say.
