this is me: burdened:
There are those movies that feature a cascade of bad situations in order to create a sense of foreboding and doom and such. That's what I see in the world around me right now and I just want to yell and scream and tell people that they are destroying out planet and torturing the natural world and quickly creating a future for Earth that I am scared to witness and live through. My heart is breaking and it feels like it is me against this huge crisis that everybody actually knows about--they're just too passive to acknowledge and take serious steps to turn the fucking thing around.
When people leave the faucet running while brushing their teeth. When people preemptively let the shower run while they're on the toilet (taking their sweet time while they shit, from the temporal looks of it). When people do not recycle. When people throw plastic bottles into garbage cans that are sitting right next to recycling bins, Truly, truly, it is not that people do not know; they just do not care and that is what gets to me the most. The lack of moral responsibility that people seem to feel when it comes to the large-scale greater fucking good of the world we ALL have to live on. I will be the first to admit that some parts of our "normal" are tedious or slightly inconvenient; but there are so many changes we can make that take zero extra time or effort and there are so many changes that corporations can implement. But at the end of the day... humans do not see the point in changing their ways when the tragedies are happening far, far away and the laws of Selfish Business Twats will always worry about their bottom lines and their own paychecks before they bother worrying about saving the goddamn planet so that they can actually have a place to spend all the money that they are lining their pockets with.
My heart is breaking and there is no reprieve from the barrage of human follies and habits that are constantly reminding me of how stupid we are. Humans are a stupid species that doesn't deserve the power it has been given over this world because they are abusing this power and turning everything to shit and I hate watching all of us idiots just sitting around refusing to actually address the problems while we pretend to sympathize with the suffering of those who are so far removed from our cushy ways of life.
We're ruining our own planet and it terrifies me to think that, in my lifetime, I may see resource shortages, crumbling social systems and societies, and an entirely preventable ball of metaphorical shit that we spent decades rolling around and blindly believing that things would just turn out okay in the end.
God, I hate this so much.
When people leave the faucet running while brushing their teeth. When people preemptively let the shower run while they're on the toilet (taking their sweet time while they shit, from the temporal looks of it). When people do not recycle. When people throw plastic bottles into garbage cans that are sitting right next to recycling bins, Truly, truly, it is not that people do not know; they just do not care and that is what gets to me the most. The lack of moral responsibility that people seem to feel when it comes to the large-scale greater fucking good of the world we ALL have to live on. I will be the first to admit that some parts of our "normal" are tedious or slightly inconvenient; but there are so many changes we can make that take zero extra time or effort and there are so many changes that corporations can implement. But at the end of the day... humans do not see the point in changing their ways when the tragedies are happening far, far away and the laws of Selfish Business Twats will always worry about their bottom lines and their own paychecks before they bother worrying about saving the goddamn planet so that they can actually have a place to spend all the money that they are lining their pockets with.
My heart is breaking and there is no reprieve from the barrage of human follies and habits that are constantly reminding me of how stupid we are. Humans are a stupid species that doesn't deserve the power it has been given over this world because they are abusing this power and turning everything to shit and I hate watching all of us idiots just sitting around refusing to actually address the problems while we pretend to sympathize with the suffering of those who are so far removed from our cushy ways of life.
We're ruining our own planet and it terrifies me to think that, in my lifetime, I may see resource shortages, crumbling social systems and societies, and an entirely preventable ball of metaphorical shit that we spent decades rolling around and blindly believing that things would just turn out okay in the end.
God, I hate this so much.