10, 15, 20 years ago, I’d go to sustainable communities conferences and revel in people getting charged up and excited.
Now I go to sustainable communities conferences and I see people walking out of keynote presentations in tears. . .
It’s been much the same message all along, but it’s finally sinking in with more folks that time is running out.
I work and talk with “kids” in their 20s and 30s, half my age, and more of them are afraid to have children, because there is dwindling optimism in what the future holds.
I help deliver watershed education programs to elementary schools, and there’s an unease among the kids, and alarm among the teachers. . . .
It’s like a world war.
Is this our D-Day? Environmental Destruction Day.
It’s said we can still turn things around, but it’s going to take WAY more effort than any government or almost any political candidate from the big two parties in the current Canadian Federal election has been willing to admit. . .
Are we up to this?
Can we as humans see beyond short-term gain and look a few generations into the future?