Today is Earth Day, and 50 years on
from the first of these days marked out to show unified support for
environmental protection across the globe.
A telling reminder that the
environment has been firmly on the international agenda for at least half a
century and yet, despite some very significant advances, GHG emissions are still rising, and we’re
still devastating ecosystems in pursuit of our consumerist addictions.
What’s different this
year is that Earth Day is happening in the midst of a once in a generation
global upheaval that has thrown normality up in the air, giving us a real
chance to make changes at the scale they need to be made. We have come to a
major fork in the road, where we must choose our future, and it’s not about
survival or not. Survival isn’t enough – it’s about what kind of Earth do we
want.
Charles Eisenstein sets
out the stark choice very clearly in this short (6 minute) video
#WeCanChange !
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