One day it struck me that the world would be a very different place if environmental crimes were treated in the same way as murders. So, why aren’t they? And should they be?
At the moment such crimes can, mistakenly, feel distant and abstract. If someone came into your flat and set fire to your furniture, stole your valuables, killed your pet, added poison to your water … what would you do? You’d be terrified. You’d go to the police. You might want revenge. You’d certainly want justice. It would be entirely obvious to you that a crime had been committed.
Fantastic post, thanks for writing that all up!
This is a great reminder that even large or complex problems can be solved if you break them down and analyze them methodically. Rather than saying “we’re doomed, everyone abandon ship!”, you can stop and think for a moment.
We should always be willing to ask ourselves how much we want a problem to be solved, because it’s entirely possible that there is a reachable solution to that problem and it could be in our best interest to address it rather than putting it off.