Artistic Footprint

We are not giving ourselves enough credit. We have grimly defined ourselves as gluttonous evil and doomed creatures ill-fitted to survive on this undeserved planet.

Every species tempts fate by becoming too successful. The pasture fence is reached and extinction is imminent.

Humans are the only species with special talent that has predicted their own demise. And not only that, were making changes to prevent it. Never before have people decided to ride a bicycle or say no to a plastic bag or buy sustainable, local products. I have understood the term “pride” in my own words: you can be proud of the hoardes of inexpensive, use-once and store products, and am beginning to understand that less is more. Purchasing sustainable, locally-produced, rare, high quality products are harder to afford, but they come with an increased level of purchaser’s pride. I can feel the different I am making, and learn to appreciate the things that make my life comfortable. For the final push, we need to acknowledge our shortfalls and eradicate them. Replace greed and entitlement with fairness and community  – ignorance with awareness and understanding- automation and blind obedience with appreciation and opinion.

Secondly, we need to stop beating ourselves up for the things we’ve done and start thanking each other for the monumental achievements we’ve made in the fight against climate change and resource depletion. We haven’t even seen what good repercussions will come out of changes like the invention of computuerized combustion nor hybrid technology nor electronic information or even wind generation.

Every morning I wake up fearing the end of my unfinished life because we single-handedly shat where we ate, and yes it seems now that we are destined for demise but I urge us all to realise that this is not an option. Survival is the only card left and shame on you if you give up. Because we are living in such an interesting time! We could verywell be the generation that sees the tipping point of civilisation. To survive or to perish. We will see the old-fashioned, traditionally-viewed babyboomers to their graves along with their politicians, taking their lifestyle of greed, power, and one-way or the highway mindsets with them. We will see the end of the oil age, We will see governments actually being held accountable because we understand and care about the decisions being made. We will see complete strangers come together to save themselves. We are the green generation.

http://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/johan_rockstrom_let_the_environment_guide_our_development.html