What bothers you and why?
I recall a line from the show Frasier, where his brother asks Frasier and his father what is wrong with his wife? Martin replies “You start Frais and I’ll jump in when you get hoarse”. That neatly encapsulates my reaction.
We have a beautiful earth and we’re destroying it. Choking it with plastic, treating it with contempt.
We have a rich diversity in this world yet we constantly try to kill or crush others.
A piece of land you call home or think you own, despite evidence to the contrary, is a good reason to kill a few million. Not just in the present, but for thousands of years.
A tutor once told us that the world is designed to walk until you need a boat. There are no borders or boundaries except the seas and oceans. But the moment you put a fence around a garden you create something to be protected.
As such, what bothers me, is how pathetic humanity is. The fears we live in. The boundless abundance we destroy. The refusal to protect what we do not and cannot own.
The fact that we view other life forms as less than us, take their lives and their habitats, when we aren’t worthy to worship at their feet, fins, or wings.
We destroy everything we touch and we’re leaving a hell for our children on what ought to be a heaven.
I could go on until I am hoarse, I’m sure you could too, but I’ll leave this with just one question:
When on earth are we going to grow up?
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 