World Oceans Day - Tumblr Posts
Dear friends of the oceans,
UN World Oceans Day 2024, which has been around since 2008 and dates back to the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. The aim is to draw attention to the threat to the world's oceans and their importance for life on our planet.
This year, the motto of the World Day is “Awaken New Depths”. Because, according to the UN: “The knowledge about the catastrophic state of the ocean is clear. Yet we are not listening. To create broad momentum for the ocean, we need to awaken new depths." Last year's UN World Oceans Day was held under the more positive motto “Tides are changing”.
Those who live in a world must also participate in it and maintain it. Selfishness is great here, who wants to live in a burning house that is completely full of rubbish?
No one shits where they live! To put it in plain language.
Everyone can contribute a part to the whole, no matter how small it is. All parts together create a gigantic picture of a better future for us all.
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Why do we as humans think that we can exploit the oceans without remorse? Oceans are part of a global system that allows us to live in a time of balance. Which has hardly had any temperature fluctuations since mankind appeared on the scene.
We take and take from them and use them as our global dumping ground.
They are an important part of the fight against man-made climate change.
If the oceans reach a tipping point, and there are several, there will be a chain reaction that is irreversible.
How do politicians and people not care so much about the issue of marine protection?
We need to tell a story to get the issue into everyone's heads.
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This year, as every year, there was the World Ocean Day with an online conference in which everyone could participate.
What was presented there was thought-provoking and full of potential. Scientists described what humanity will face if certain tipping points are reached, and they also presented measures on how the political systems and society can be transformed to avoid reaching these tipping points and triggering a cascade that can be reversed. This would have a positive impact on life on the entire planet!
But what can we say? It doesn't seem to be particularly important for those currently responsible in politics and business.
So no matter what we do ourselves for personal reasons, just cycling, shopping sustainably or supporting small projects that are sustainable in action or by helping out, it's just a drop in the ocean.
We do what we can here and annoy our leaders with emails, petitions, elections and whatever else is in our power.
But creatures that are only around eighty years old are probably not in a position to think ahead into the future to understand what really needs to be done to preserve a species and indeed itself.
As long as we believe that we are the crown of creation and do not want to recognise that we are only a small particle in a mega complex system, we will unfortunately fail completely in the long term. But there is hope! We can change our perspective and start thinking about the bigger picture.
It is so important to remember that the more pieces of the puzzle we remove from the whole system, the more we will affect it when the puzzle stops working.
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If you're affected by extreme weather, don't cry!
It's just Mother Nature doing her thing.
If you're feeling the effects of climate change, don't fret! It's just God's way of testing us.
If you're feeling the effects of droughts, high water, and other climate-related challenges, don't worry! It's just God's way of showing us that we need to be more mindful of our impact on the planet.
Have fun with God's punishments and remember that if God does everything, he probably invented science to bring us closer to him.
As an addendum, we call him, her, it * God because we don't care what you call him exclusively.
