If The Planet Is Our Home Why We Treat It Like Place?

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious."

- Elon Musk

Mother Earth got bad health, and the word "dire" comes to my mind. The Earth's conditions have continued destroyed since the first global outlook was prepared in 1997 and called “urgent actions” to make a disastrous impact on our planet. The world is constantly changing. There is so much going on at any given moment and much more is being added to the cap of this planet.

When you start thinking about that “one” idea from a classic supply vs demand perspective, you will realize instantly that there is a limited supply of resources that that planet has to offer and the demand from humanity has gotten out of hand. As we know, humans have more facilities to live their life. If it is not the biggest reason why we have found ourselves in a climate pickle today.

Why call this earth our home?

There is a great sense of camaraderie in that thought: we all have one home and we need to make it, keep it safe and intact for the sake of humanity and every other natural being on the planet, then we can call it home. The optimist in me believes that it will certainly lead to the executory ideas and eventually primary solutions that will bring out this so-called climate change. We must shift our mindset to thrive and not just grow. This is a very powerful shift in thinking as growth is the core pillar in such topics of conversation, economics, social, political, financial, religious, personal, etc.

Solutions become easy when you start to think about thriving as a society, allowing this shift in thinking to let us explore more than one problem to solve, with a single solution. When I was conversing about capitalism(as we all do over brunch) with a friend, we covered how important incentives are in today’s economic world. One way or another, we all love to be incentivised; from year-end bonuses to Thanksgiving sales to getting free things from time to time.

We go the extra mile when we are aware that something more is potentially available at the end of the line. Upon pondering this, I couldn’t help but think if there was any plausible way to use this to our advantage in fighting climate change. Are there ways that we can incentivize efforts to not just throw away a product at the end of its life and could there be mass programs out there that could reduce waste at the end of the life of a product? Right off the bat, this could potentially reduce waste coming out of a household, raw materials needed for making new products, and plastic dumped into the ocean. In other words, incentivizing reuse and recycling(certainly needs more credibility).

Change in policy at the highest level, taxes levied, research and technological developments in both carbon capture, as well as energy efficiency, transparency within the capitalistic market, lower consumption and waste, societal equity and passion to see another day, are just a few things that come to mind as I think about how we multi-solve these generational problems. I am excited to share my thoughts on capitalistic transparency in my next article, along with what I’m invested in, both professionally and personally on the creativity and execution phases for the betterment of everything and everyone around us, including ourselves.

STOP BEING TRASHY & SAVE THE WORLD