Climate Change. I'm Not Responsible

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It’s normal for human beings. We don’t want to take responsibility for our actions. Kids play baseball or soccer and break a neighbour’s window. The kid who hit the ball says he’s not responsible because he did not choose where they played that day.

Same with the environment. Nobody is responsible for climate change. Maybe it’s time to jog the memory. We take certain words for granted. Environment for example. We think everybody understands what is means, and it is not just Environment Canada saying we should expect rain or snow flurries.

The environment is land and all that is associated with it: air, animals and humans. The environment is land before and after industrialization. The sea is dancing water on top of land. The environment is the sea, the sharks’ home before men who buy things on the stock exchange started drilling oil from the bottom of the sea.

Despite bank loans to ‘captains of industry’ nobody is to blame for rape of the land and climate change. Men with money to buy, mine, drill and leave the land with gaping mining holes and air destruction, also own things like parking lots, sports stadiums and airlines.

They are aware of possible danger. That is why they cover themselves that they are not responsible for accidents that happen on their business premises. They don’t want to be sued.

They use the same waiver in their mining and drilling operations. They are not responsible for the environment and climate change.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang. 

 

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