Earth day and it's impact

 A life lived in fear is a life half lived. -N D T

Some thoughts about COVID-19;

We are in the middle of a massive experiment worldwide, and we are the guinea pigs. The experiment is will people listen to scientists? Are we taking all kind of precautions issued by medical professionals for our own good? It seems that if we all listened and all paid attention to what scientists say, maybe the Coronavirus will just blow on by, with a minimum of cases. And then we could get rid of it for obeying the recommendations of scientists and how to minimize our chances of getting it. 

April 22nd 2020 was the 50th year of earth day. Let me tell you a story, we were actively going to be walking on the moon by 1970, with Saturn 5 spacecraft. Then we went to the moon and turned around and discovered Earth for the first time. And there it was whole, alone in the vacuum dark of space, and you see it, not as the social studies classroom globe showed you. There were no colour codes countries on it. All you saw was blue oceans and dry land and clouds. And at that very moment, everyone changed. Everybody astonished. They got a visual of pollution is not just this river behind my house or this lake, it is global. We have to think about the earth as a planet. Let me tell you some other things that happened in the 1970s,

Earth day was founded.

The environmental protection agency was voted into existence, by a Republican president.

Over those years that we were walking on the moon, through 1973, Leaded gas was banned.

The Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was founded to take a look at the climate on earth. No one before had thought of connecting the oceans and the clouds before and they are both in the same title of that agency. 

A comprehensive clean air act, clean water act all that happened.

Still, people ask “WHY ARE WE GOING TO SPACE?” Because a cosmic perspective can descend upon you in such a way that you are realigned with your own survival and the survival of others in such a way that maybe you’re going to do something about it. On the 51st anniversary of that, we need to keep doing it. And at last, as Di Caprio told in his Oscar acceptance speech about man’s relationship with the natural world, “Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. we need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations but who speak for all of humanity, for all of the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children’s children and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed. Let us not take this planet for granted”