Corona Think

The Environment Reset Point Is Here

What will we do about it?

It has become clear in recent days that many of our leaders are struggling to actually lead. They also seem to lack the capacity for empathy.

The key quality for a politician appears to be a cold desire for enriching yourself at the expense of others. Concern for human welfare is often seen as a weakness.

This cold ability to look the other way is how many reached their position, after all.

We can choose to look at the Covid-19 pandemic with fear and sit paralyzed in our own individual bubbles, staring in utter horror at what’s unfolding before us. We can hide from the rest of the world and just head into a deep depression that may never lift…

Or, while much of the world comes to a screeching halt, we can join others and take advantage of a situation we’ve never seen before. We can break up our mindnumbing routine with some serious philosophical thought followed by real, tangible action.

The “New World Order” theory doesn’t have to be some kind of apocalyptic horror fest.

WE are in charge of what happens next. WE are the majority.

A portion of wealth

Is the obscene hoarding of wealth by a tiny portion of us something we want to continue supporting? Does the stock market really have anything at all to do with how well the average worker bee does? Are we prepared to pay with our lives to protect this inequality — to our own detriment?

Respect for the environment

Clean air matters. Uncontaminated water is vital. Destroying nature and killing life is evil as well as counter-intuitive. Turning our only collective home into a garbage dump is insane. Instead of trying to make Mars inhabitable, shouldn’t we be laser-focused on protecting what we already have?

Meeting basic human needs

Might this be the perfect time for a bold move toward equity, safety, security, health, and happiness? For all?

Turning on each other solely for the sake of creating conflicts for war-mongers to profit from is something that should have been left in the dark ages. We all know this. Everybody knows this, instinctively. But here we are, living in a constant state of manufactured hatred toward each other — instead of toward the actual culprits residing on top of the pyramid.

So why have we let this go on for so long? Why does “the economy” seem to trump life? Are we really willing to die for the privilege of funneling ridiculous amounts of money and possessions to a handful of people who in return seem to enjoy looking down on us while denying us basic human rights?

We can fix this. And now is the time.

How do we collectively come together and challenge the status quo?