Losing Earth Final Thoughts

It’s like watching “Ninja Turtles”, I’m shell shocked…but also feeling a sense of betrayal,followed by an overwhelming urgency of action that needs to be taken place. Yes, the shitty Michael Bay “Ninja Turtles” movies is what I’m relating to. To be frank, it really is sickening after reading Nathaniel Rich’s “Losing Earth” realizing that we could’ve helped the planet decades ago. What we are left with is our greedy, selfish, and overcompensated ways of living. When we look at our current conditions in the United States we think to ourselves “climate change isn’t that bad.” As a nation and as people we don’t always think about the effects our carbon emissions cause. If we look at Antarctica with the chinstrap penguin colonies declining from 85,000 breeding pairs in 2003 to 52,000 pairs 7 years later due to rising temperatures. Even within the United States, California’s wildfires just last year killed 40 people destroying 8,000 homes. With the vegetation at a record high value for dryness adding kindling to an already fire prone state. Overall, it’s a travesty we have so many activists looking to save the world with the younger generation feeling as if they are left to save the planet. Does it even matter, if nobody is willing to listen?