“The environment is slowly dying. Please tell me which one of these is responsible:
A. Animals and Plants
B. Oceans and Forests
C. Virus and Bacteria
D. People
You have 3 minutes to answer.”
I can also imagine the flustered contestant wondering what they should answer to win the competition. If they would call me to ask me for their help, this is what I would tell them:
You have to ask yourself first: what is the environment? The environment is our surroundings, it’s where we ought to feel safe, comfortable and at pace with ourselves. The environment is our society and our future. It is our sheer life. This is why no one has the right to destroy it. We are interconnected, as we all live inside it. If one area of it is ruined, the rest will follow.
The ignorance of human beings (in the 21st century) will let them think that there is no impact or the impact is negligible. The more knowledgeable will count the extermination of the billions of lives of other beings sharing the environment with us.
Let us think: who is responsible? The multi-national companies? The lady selling sweets in a back street in Delhi or Karachi? The tea-maker in Marrakech? The poor farmer in Zimbabwe? The taxi driver in Mexico City? Or maybe the camel shepherd in Afghanistan?
Why blame the blame the weak, poor and vulnerable?
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