The course has begun, and it's interesting to see the different ideas about sustainability, all valid, all relevant. However it's mainly about what everyone can do, no one wants to leave anything to evolve around them. The latter can't be done of course, because just being, just peeing, one changes things irrevocably and evolution has to slide in and adjust.
The problem is trying to understand how being is affecting other elements and lifeforms of our planet. Being a source of food to prepare it for breeding for a female mosquito, because being in its flight range, changes things. Changes so much that we can't discern just how far the ripple reaches or the amount of ripples created.
Young people are interested in this and that's heartening. Young people want to change things, but can young people be happy with the real challenge, the delicate ministrations of evolution rather than destructive, hasty revolution? It hasn't happened so far. Money seems to be very desirable and the need to possess it flushes everything else.
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