Ecosystems are fragile things, and collectively we can be callous and irresponsible, mutually reinforcing each other to sustain our collective denial. Denial of our role in exacerbating ecosystem collapse, and denial of our real power to intervene and prevent it.
Yet there is no denying it. All we need do is look around at the struggling systems of our planet to understand that the ticking time bomb is growing closer. Or has it already exploded, and we will only notice if personally hit by some shrapnel?
What will be the popular wake-up call? What will be the experience that sways popular opinion to abandon this false equality between knowing the Earth cannot sustain our actions and wanting desperately to deny (or profit from that denial) that we are not the cause, nor the only solution?
Could it be millions of fish and thousands of birds dying at once all over the globe? Or are they regularly occurring events only now associated by the growth of a global media?
Does it really matter?
What does your heart say?
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