Extinction rebellion

Greta Thunberg has become a veritable heroine, a modern day saviour of Earth, a stewardess of nature has grown a lot in fame recently. She is a true hero of mine, and i have been following her work and that of her relatively new founded public group name mostly active on twitter; the Extinction Rebellion. Starting with the School Strike for Climate (SS4C), she has quickly burgeoned into a full fledged climate activist rivalling any who has come before her. She regularly talks to elected officials in various of the leading economic powers in Europe including most recently in front of the French parliament. Unfortunately, her work has created an upsurge of hatred and criticism from the climate-change doubters who sadly still do exist, and are louder than ever. Their outrage at the science-proven facts, lies, threats and unprovoked critiques of Greta and her following are uncalled for, and frankly indicate a much more somber reality. Backed into a corner, the economic powers that are fuelling the destructive industries against nature are mounting a powerful retaliation with everything they have. In the medias, social networks, and influence over journalists, they attempt to forge a mirage of fake news to mask the looming reality of a climate catastrophe that quite frankly can no longer be ignored.

The self-seeking financial incentives are becoming harder to ignore, and as the ugly truth reveals itself, it will become ever more difficult to fight what Greta is saying and the cause she represents. The Extinction Rebellion is fighting for the truth, and after all the truth will always resurface no matter how long it has been forcibly repressed. Like oxygen bubbles under water, it rises until it reaches the surface where it merges into its natural omnipresent form. The real question at large is of how much damage are we willing to take, how much unnecessary hardship are we willing to bring onto the natural world, but ultimately onto ourselves. As with everything in the natural world, inherent to it’s interconnectedness, actions are never ignored, and consequences if not felt instantaneously are merely postponed to a later date. As with all interconnected bodies, our planet ultimately functions as a single unit, however on it’s massive scale the operating functions deliberate on a much slower frame of time relative to our own. The earth’s climate fluctuates over millions of years into cold and warm periods that are determined by a multitude of factors including orbital fluctuations around and position to the sun. On an internal level, however, the high amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that we (the human species) have released and continue to release in to the atmosphere, have as of yet not taken their full course of effect, this will occur in the coming decades and centuries. It is called the 6th mass extinction because our deforestation of major rainforests (Sumatra, Amazon, etc) and other activities are destroying the habitats where other animals species with which we share this planet live and rely on.

These environments double as carbon sinks, which function as a vital resource for curbing the rate of rapid climate change. As we single-handedly and purposefully continue to destroy these environments in the search for greedy economic gains, we operate as a natural phenomena of nature and are working at producing our own demise with the continuation of these practices. Inherently, no organism can function sustainable by means of an exploitative relationship. And when the exploits cease to exist, it’s host will die. However the gleaming light that we are a highly intelligent species that understands the meaning of choice and decision-making, we study exponentially in maths and physics and recognise its two-way functionality. We can work to exponentially increase the rate of natural destruction, increasing the rate of climate-change and by relation our own demise. Or we can peel off our leeching of nature, the destructive habitual practices that go ignored by governments and politicians, and take part instead in reforestation and sustainable energies that would work exponentially in our favour.

The bottom line is, the efforts of some groups of people to undermine the work of climate activists like Greta is counterintuitive. Not just from the perspective of fellow human-beings, but of pure logic. Why would you want to destroy the chances of survival for your family, future families, current and next generations? And what about the countless other species that don’t have a say in any of this? Are they being completely ignored and left out of the equation? Is greed blinding us to the point of self-destruction? Most importantly, we fall back on those in the positions of power to make the big changes, even when those changes stand against their monetary interests. A double-bind that only a miracle can unfold. Only time will tell, until then, thank you Greta.

Visit the Extinction rebellion’s website: https://rebellion.earth/

or on their twitter handle @ExtinctionR