I find it so utterly interesting and devastating how good we as humans are to completely forget or just ignore certain things. Let’s take climate change for example. Everything about climate change is connected. We destroy the rainforest which not only leads to the destruction of natural habitats for animals, but also takes away the trees that could, through photosynthesis, make oxygen out of greenhousegases. But the irony is that we destroy so much of the rainforest, to have more space for our domestic animals that we like to eat and to grow crops for them to eat. The animals, btw contributing a lot of greenhousegases to our atmosphere and they don’t only create air pollution. It doesn’t only take horrendous amounts of water to grow the crops, when they shit everything out again we have a massive water pollution on our hands as well, which destroys parts of our oceans. Together with all the plastics it’s not sounding good for our oceans either, but the biggest problem with plastic pollution doesn’t come from us consumers, but is actually mostly from fishers that throw their nets out as soon as they don’t work anymore. Besides from the slavery happening on fishing vessels, they also overfish the ocean which, when added with the bycatch, destroys the ecosystem of our oceans. And you might say, oh well, we don’t need fish, that is wrong. Fish are also very important for our global ecosystem. Not only do some land animals eat sea animals, but another big storage of co2 are coral reefs that are dying because of missing fish and rising heat of the ocean. And now to circle back to us landanimals. We use a lot of greenhouse gases in our everyday lives. Just for transport or our energy needs, but the truth is, that the big industries need much more. Like a whole massive amount more and they just started pointing fingers at us consumers. And if you are anything like me, you probably do live pretty sustainable, or at least try your best. I even supported wwf for a while, but now to get to my point:
I find it so incredibly funny, how even though we have all the facts we can still go about our lives mostly not even recognising the bigger picture and seeing only what is easiest to swallow and I agree that is painfully beautiful and probably somewhat human nature, but can we please stop?
