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So, hello you lovely lot – have you had the murder hornets yet? Sorry you’re going through a difficult time – strangely 2020 is the year everything became clearer for humans, and for nature. Something had to be done and it took several global pandemics to start the conversation. Depending on the month you’re in – yeah, that was plural.This was the year that earth swiped left to humanity…
There’s hope though – we’re finally living within the capacity that the earth allows. We have moved away from cities and are living in and on the land. This as you can imagine has reduced carbon emissions as we are travelling less. The airlines collapsed soon after we realized the amount of damage it was causing to our world. We decided; Less economic and more nature. Although local communities did thrive. Big business finally became too big. They found out the hard way when their wealth, and so power and influence, grew during times when the population were going through their worst moments. It seemed so unfair as they bought up stocks and shares while millions lost their livelihoods. The tech giants were broken up at first and then our happiness started to resurface. We didn’t rely on apps to make us feel worthy. It took some force though.
This is because we moved away from a world that fed tech giants hunger for money and power, all the while exploiting their users; us. We learned once that extinction is forever with the Dodo – now we had to learn that food on our plate, or anything we buy, has a massive effect on the land. It wasn’t a circular economy. Things went straight from the earth and were used up then thrown away.We moved away from big factories churning out disposable plastics, like silly toys, phone cases, so much paper was made using so many trees and energy! This did make things difficult and less efficient but now we aren’t creating unnecessarily to satisfy share prices but creating for use.
This did help – especially with less pollution from things like face masks and single-use gloves. We went back to glass and metal instead of oil-based plastics. We weren’t recycling as much as we should – so we changed it all. Microplastics are still the hardest to get rid of and we are not sure when sea life will ever truly recover from the damage. Every level of the ecosystem was affected – we are now learning to live with nature, not accidentally attacking it with our very existence.
So, we moved from the cities into nature – slowly at first. Even though they are more efficient places to exist we only kept a necessary few and are learning to live in harmony with the planet – something that was hard to do in a concrete tower in the middle of an urban sprawl. It’s not all been easy though as more of the countryside has been utilized, but we managed it without too much of a damaging footprint.
We realised health was more than biology and decided to live more peacefully within the earth’s limitations and systems. But this did come at a cost. Where global illness and disease started the reduction of numbers, humans decided to advance it and so a world-wide reduction was necessary. Never has ‘for the greater good’ held such a high price for so many. It was meant to be even across the world – but countries that were more powerful managed to keep more of their citizens alive. Some places still have an impact from the pollution and damage that they didn’t even cause. We lost whole nations but gained a new identity – people of earth.
And we are happier – mostly - but it took many years to forget and even more to forgive for some. There aren’t massive corporations telling us how to live and what ‘success’ is, feeding us with rewarding social cues that affect us in ways we couldn’t dream of. We live with nature, not taking too much and trying to give back. Our homes are simple. Our lives too. 2020 brought us a clear vision of a green future. So now is the time to choose what you want.