Nature: The Holy Grail of my generation
Being a baby boomer,
I have grown in a times where technologies were making available to be informed of the natural world then never before. With the Commandant Cousteau and the exploration of the oceans, passing by pictures and videos that bring you so close to the wild animals we have learned how beautiful and diversified is our natural world.
With the opportunities given to me to travel and explore areas where little human contact have been occurred as traveling was not yet so easy as it has been until Covid. And be amazed by smell, colors, noises that have enriched my human experience.
With the explosion of the low cost airlines the world suddenly became accessible and remote areas that were kept secluded suddenly became at reasonable reach.
A world over mechanized
The process of mechanization, gave us a power that never before we had . The harvest of natural goods in a scale never seen before . Our consumer society is taking a toll on the planet that never before happened. Putting all the natural Eco system under tremendous pressure either because the natural habitat are shrinking but also disappearing at a rate never before seen.
This massive take over on the world is starting what now we consider the Sixth massive extinction.
So if I did have the opportunity to know a world full of bugs, insects, fishes, birds… now when I go back to these places I encounter rivers without fishes, grass without insects, less birds… It is a tragedy and we are globally responsible. Consuming without taking in consideration the ecological foot print off what we produce only destroy unique Eco system as well as the network of life that makes our planet so unique.
My generation the golden generation?
My generation benefit tremendously of the advances in technologies but we have now more then ever the responsibility to stop this madness and ensure we can protect all form of life of this planet.
Ignoring the web of life that exists on this unique planet is denying future generations, my own grand children and great grand children to experience the beauty and wonder of makes our humanity so special.
So turning 50 I realized that I need to revise my way of living and be sure to lower my ecological foot print in order to leave to the future generations no tonnes of garbage or contamination but the maximum bio diversity for them to enjoy as I did.
We can go on with our life without giving to much attention to what’s going on. But the interconnection we are all soon to experience will oblige us to be more pro active in living a higher environmentally life.
And I want to be remembered as an active human being in keeping the planet healthy and full of its diversity.