BE THE CHANGE

Sir,

Believe it or not they exist, the ferocious defenders of the burning of fossil fuels which have had drastic consequences on the environment. The earth is in danger from greedy and selfish individuals who don’t care about the world but their own bellies, health and safety. They are there and when they die they leave behind people who continue defending the destruction of the planet.  But are they there? Oh yes, I mean individuals who fight for their children’s children and all the generations which will come after they have long left earth.

Claim

And so the fight rages on. ‘Be the change you want to see’ once said an old wise Indian man by the name of Mahatma Gandhi. But today what we have are leaders who claim to be proponents of saving the planet but they fly in their private jets and planes and after that they have the guts to say they are defenders of the earth. “Why not remove the pole in your eye before removing the speck in my eye,” once said a Jewish Rabbi over 2000 years ago; though I suspect that Gandhi learned something from this certain rabbi. I must humbly admit that I am well aware of the fact that our leaders are still trying to find better ways, environmentally friendly ways of travelling so with that said I am grateful that they are actively doing something.

Win

So who will win the battle for the planet? To the subjective individual it seems clear that there is absolutely nothing significant they can do which can impact the entire world, which is understandable. I mean, honestly though, what can I do to stop global warming as I am just a pea in a pod. But the wisdom of Solomon tells me that what the righteous desire shall be granted. I have a certain desire to see the planet saved and I want to see change take place.

Harm

Civilisation has done more harm than good. We have children with great minds distracted by social media, laying on the couch, with a can of soft drink sipping away while sporadically glancing at the TV set, all this while the world around them is crumbling to pieces. Oh you know it’s true. I used to be distracted by these things until I lost my phone; without it I was forced into a corner, I had to read. It is in reading that I have come across books which display an earth in the balance, an earth in danger and I realised that it was good for me to lose my phone because now I am free from that ‘place’, that state of  mind, that life of spasmodically reaching for the phone like some kind of a robot.

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