Save the planet? The planet’ll be fine!
When we talk about saving the planet, what do we really mean?
The Nurse thinks a sanity check is in order. What everyone’s running around in a panic trying to ‘save’ is the human race. Without us the earth would still turn. Life would thrive, evolving peacefully across silent clean millennia.
It takes a huge collective ego to believe that we have the power to destroy an entire planet. But perhaps we’re not really that egotistical. Maybe we talk about saving the world because we’re too scared to admit that it’s actually our kids’ lives that are under threat. Perhaps we hide our fear behind the bigger and morally grander title ‘saving the planet’.
Individuals are mostly good and kind and worthy. And nice. But as a race The Nurse thinks we’re horrid. We’re a grubby, wasteful, destructive lot, happy to trash our home planet and everything that lives on it. Individuals do great things for conservation. But as a species we shit on our own doorstep countless times every day without a qualm.
Most humans believe we’re superior to other creatures. The Nurse begs to differ. We’re feral kids, we’re the chavs, the hooligans, the emotionally underdeveloped youth of the universe. You don’t seee any other creatures wilfully wrecking their own environment. We are the baddies and we wear the black hats.
