It frustrates me so much.
No.
It angers me.
It angers me that I live in a society willing to sacrifice the beautiful world that surrounds them for the clink of coins in their pocket.
It angers me that I live in a society governed by people unwilling to prioritise the health of a planet that will not endure their constant disinterest.
It angers me that the older generations bat climate change off with the comment that the end of the world has always been a 'threat' used by the media.
I was on FaceTime with my boyfriend the other day. I had just seen that the Amazon was on fire, not on the news, but on social media. It shocked me that the news industry doesn't view 20% of the world's oxygen up in flames as worthy of publicising to its audience. He brought up how willing the millionaires of our population were to throw money at a burning Notre Dame, but not at something as vital as the Amazon.
"If the Amazon is our lungs," he said, "the Notre Dame is a cut to the skin."
So why are we sacrificing our lungs? Would we do that to our own bodies? I accept that the Notre Dame is a beautiful piece of our past. As a lover of History, I totally understand. But does it contain 10% of the world's known species? No, I didn't think so.
It fills me with so much anguish when I realise that every step I take as a young person to help the environment is seriously undermined by those above me, people who should certainly not be in charge of such an important and precious thing.
So I guess this is why I'm fed up. I'm fed up of living in a society that doesn't seem to care about the welfare of its planet. And most of all, I'm sick to death of it being run by people who think likewise.
So I will continue to cut meat out my diet, recycle, carry a reusable water bottle, turn off the lights and switches and buy unwrapped groceries. Because although these steps may be small, it makes me feel a little let useless in a world that still seems so negligent towards what matters most.
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