To no one’s surprise, Earth is not doing so well on Earth Day in 2020. Things are not looking up anytime soon, and there is no co-ordinated action to fix it. As custodians of this planet, we’ve truly f-ed this up. Whilst Elon Musk is looking to colonise Mars, and it has never been more apparent that we actually do need a backup, the cast majority of us are stuck with this one planet. What can we do to fix the mess? We know what we need to do, but it will required everyone to be less selfish, consume less, and think about the greater good of the planet. None of these things will be done in the foreseeable future, and there is no political will great enough to push through measures that work. The only thing that Earth can do is to take things into its own hands and stop humanity from consuming at the same rate as they were before and to stop pumping toxic fumes into the atmosphere and polluting its waterways. None of this is to say that the current crisis is good for the planet, but there is no way we can continue to live the way we did in the second half of last century and the beginning decades of this century. As the Native American saying goes:
Alexander Tang