Not Saving the Planet in the Perfect Way still Could Be Enough.

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Week 2: “We have no more time. What we can do for save the Earth when politics doesn’t react?”

Not Saving the Planet in the Perfect Way still Could Be Enough.

Most of people care about the Planet, because it’s where we live and what we need to exist but is it enough to say that we care? Maybe we should ask ourselves how are we actually caring? Are we doing enough? Would we still want to care for the Planet while many things around us are killing it and we don’t have enough power to stop it? If I spent my life caring for the planet, would it really make a difference? Associations, organizations, campaigns … are trying to save the Planet, but does it seem like it could make a difference? Could we ever really give up anything that could threaten our Planet like cars, nuclear weapons …?

So if we are really trying to save the Planet, maybe that requires a superior position that allows us to make decisions and make everyone forced to accept it. And this makes us think about politicians, they’re controlling everything whether we wanted to accept it or not. The food we eat, the things we watch on the TV and the clothes we wear … everything has become politics so maybe that’s what should happen for “Saving the Planet”, maybe it has to become a political manner so that we can get to something. Though politics have already taken a big part of this, there are countries where the law forbids certain behaviors that would harm the nature; some others are helping associations who are fighting for this … 

But the question now is how much are politicians ready to do for this? Would they accept to give up all these means of power that are killing our Planet at the same time if we asked them to? Will they try to save the planet in all the possible ways or just in the ones that work for their benefits?

Maybe we should give up dreaming of a world where everyone is doing everything possible to save the Planet and just be more realistic thinking that we could go slowly making ourselves and every person around us caring more and more about the earth day by day because this way politicians’ contribution wouldn’t matter that much and we still would have saved the planet whether in all the ways or not.

By Duroy, Tunisia
20 years old