“Another day, another climate-change story. All of this leads to a deaf audience.” [1]
It might seem astonishing that in times of global warming and environmental catastrophes somebody like Andy from
The problem of global warming is that it is not an individual problem; it is a problem that is communal.
But presuming there would be no ‘exit of an inconvenient truth’ is fundamentally wrong. Our daily life embodies various ways of exiting situations we don’t want to face up to. Lame excuses for example. Ignorance. Idleness. Economic interests.
Maybe the worst of all exits one can take from the inconvenient truth of global warming is the disrespect towards things which are not human-made. Set the case; If I went to
However, nobody would care if I went into the rainforest and chopped down a thousand year old tree. The problem with us is that we treasure only what is made by humans. Our disrespect towards nature is rooted in the fact that we take it for granted. Rather than appreciating it we sell it for profit. Rather than seeing it as something special and unique, we see it as a resource we can exploit and waste.
But to stick to the truth: By changing the earth’s climate, by extinguishing various kinds of animals, by polluting the air and by wasting water, we do not essentially harm our planet. The planet earth will still rotate around the sun. The only thing that will change are the conditions for life. Nature might not be concerned with the fact that for the next three million years only bacteria might survive on our planet.
Primarily, we just wipe out ourselves (and animals and plants depending on similar living standards).
Thomas Hobbes once wrote: lupus est homo homini. Maybe he was never more right.
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