"Toxic" "Higher Faster Stronger"

Elsa 2022-11-12 01:18:56

It is hard to imagine that life in the literal sense of darkness is not far from us at all. Renewable energy, vegetarian food, and returning farmland to forests are all very good sustainable measures, but just like losing weight, quitting smoking and other activities that require us to restrain our desires, they require patience and determination, and the pain in the process of perseverance is every What everyone has to bear is not just what can be achieved by those who stir up the situation by speaking, investing, and formulating policies.

Our development has been pushed to the present level by the sentence pattern of "more...". The fast and the slow, the high and the low, the strong and the weak were originally just concepts that complement each other. just broke, as if the other side was the one we should throw away, which is as impossible as just wanting to cut off the head of a coin and just want to see the light. Impossible, but we're driven by this toxic philosophy of trying to ignore the other side of the coin until the problem is so bad that we can't ignore it.

When we start saying "this is fine" and "this is enough", we may be able to slowly start trying to reject this toxic idea of ​​progress and be able to achieve our own balance with nature.

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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet quotes

  • David Attenborough: This is not about saving our planet, it's about saving ourselves. The truth is, with our without us, the natural world will rebuild.

  • David Attenborough: The living world will endure. We humans cannot presume the same. We've come this far because we are the smartest creatures that have ever lived. But to continue, we require more than intelligence. We require wisdom.