Sustainability

 Sustainability 

 

 

Can we sustain our world?

 

Is it the end?  Or the beginning?  Or does it matter?  

 

Do we give up?  Do we scavenge?  Do we get high?  Do we try to put things back together?

 

If we were in an apocalypse where suddenly we were a skeleton crew trying to survive, what would we do?  

 

We still have all the modern technology. We still have everything from computers to birth control. In fact, we are still progressing. 

 

Let’s say we kind of were the ones who messed everything up.  And we didn’t want to be caught. Would be deceive our children and everyone we could?  Or would we face up and figure things out?  Let’s say over time it became more apparent that nothing bad—or different—was going to happen to us.  

 

How would we go about sustaining our world?

 

Someone is keeping food in the grocery store.  Someone is keeping the lights on. Someone is keeping the water on.  The street lights are still working. 

 

Do we find them and help them?  Do we ask them what to do?  Do we admit exactly what we did so we—and others—can remedy it?  Do we try to hide it and remedy it ourselves?  Is that fair to the world?  I hate to ask, but do we pretend that we didn’t do anything or that the victim is the perpetrator?  Do we live it up until the bitter end?  And then face the music?

 

Do we actually have to work?  Do we actually have to learn how things work?  Do we actually have to think about others?  Do we actually have to give up our pirateering?

 

Most of all, do we have to admit what is really going on; and what to do about it?