It seems like you’re destined to make it to old age without ever heeding the difference between the garbage and the recycling bins. Why do you go clothes shopping fifty times a year? What fraction of your purchases do you wear before throwing them out? Have you donated anything to an opportunity shop in your entire life? What does this years phone do that last year’s model couldn’t do? Electric cars still don’t have enough range for you? Have you ever towed a trailer? How often do you drive for more than an hour or two at a time?
The world is contending with melting ice sheets, rising seas, ocean acidification, bleached coral reefs, heat waves, droughts, bushfires and floods. Meanwhile, you’re still dreaming of palaces, mega-yachts, private jets and prestige car collections? Within your fantastical bubble, Super Nerd will save the day. Within your fantastical bubble, the Titans of technology will make everything okay. Frugality is the answer, don’t block your ears, frugality is the answer.
You’re a climate change denier? The thermometers are broken kind, or the people didn’t do it what would NASA know kind? What about the need for clean air? Would my non-smoking friend have died of lung cancer in a combustion engine and coal fired power station free world? Climate change isn’t the only reason to care about phasing out fossil fuels. Breathing matters.
© Rodney Hunter, 2023
The Surreal Art Psychonaut 
Very thoughtful and so true.
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