Change For The Better

Change for the better? Not the environment. I don’t have time to monitor the extent of climate change. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the pandemic and wearing masks, I would not have noticed that the air is contaminated.

I’m too busy you know, making money, trying to make money or having sleepless nights about money, to notice signs that climate change is here, dividends from our investment in change, all kinds of change.

Money is the change agent. It enables rich men to change wives or go and buy temporary ones on the corner, when they feel like a change. Money makes change possible: the car, boat, house, air conditioners, humidifiers, facial cream to arrest rude ageing, Botox affected areas, buy new phones, laptops, television, microwave ovens, fridges and clothes.

Change for the better doesn’t apply to climate change because it has a multiplier effect on other things humans need to survive. Nature has in-built medication to heal wounds of little boys that fall off their bikes. Spring is more beautiful than summer because it repairs winter’s wounds. What a contrast!

Change for the better? It might be ideal to change our hair or update the wardrobe, but it is bad for the environment because the time is coming when it cannot absorb items we discard, in order to update ourselves.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.