Jumping on the bandwagon

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The earth is going to be just fine. It has survived and continues to survive volcanoes, earthquakes, continental drifts, recurring ice ages, wild fires, floods, erosion and storms. If you think some plastic and cans are going to make any difference to its well-being then you're trying your best to jump on bandwagon of wokeness and political correctness.

Let me break it to you, we as a Third World country that's keeping its head afloat (pun intended) based on foreign aid and loans, we have bigger issues than polythene bags. What's worse is that for a daily labourer, he only cares about where his next meal is going to come from. He doesn't care that the meal he'll take home will be in a plastic bag which might increase the earth's temperature.

Global warming, or should I say 'climate change' because that's the new term being thrown around, will not kill us. I am not saying it won't cause bigger storms or flooding which is going to be worse. Storms, earthquakes and floods have wreaked havoc since time immemorial. Noah wasn't building the ark because someone used more electricity than they needed. We've been reciting verses about the earth shaking itself since thousands of years, nothing new. Natural calamities have and will always occur and there is nothing we can do to stop them.

Yes, we might dress fancy wearing custom stitched clothing, be on our way (in a vehicle consuming fuel) to a conference in a five-star hotel (which of-course uses non-renewable energy), sit on our moral high ground and preach about how the climate is changing for the worse, all the while sipping water from a plastic bottle.

Mind you and I can't even make this up but ironically, all climate change conferences are held in 5-star hotels owned by capitalists who wouldn't budge an inch to accommodate sources of renewable energy. It'll kill the profits.

My recommendation is, our climate lovers should really be close to mother nature and in all its beauty and grandeur, should talk about the increasing threat to climate by hosting their conferences under the shade, in the wild. Maybe then, they'll really be meaning what they actually say.

But for now, it just funny to see Taylor Swift flying around the states in her private jet and advocating for climate change while she leaves behind carbon footprint larger than a minister's bank account. Similarly, Greta Thunberg needs to start walking around everywhere so that she can ensure the temperatures don't rise. All the while, experts in our government, who without possessing any relevant expertise in climate change, continue to head ministries and continue to talk about climate change while not knowing the difference between global warming and climate change. Eat your heart out.

These are all First World problems. We shouldn't be concerned about them. Masses in our country couldn't care less about these issues either. What concerns us is food, water and shelter, the same old mantra we've been reciting for 76 years and will continue to recite for another century unless we get new politicians.

We've got to save the planet. No. The planet will save itself; it will heal itself like it always does. You've got to save yourself by being honest to yourself and others and climate change tends to discriminate.

It tends to discriminate by being a sexist and misogynist concept by impacting woman more than men. It is as though it knows that women don't already have it bad enough that it makes it worse for them. Make what you will of that.

In essence, the earth was a ball of fire, it calmed down, it extinguished itself (without us), gave birth to life on itself and continues to provide us with necessities.

Think about all this while I print a bunch of papers which ask readers to save trees and save the planet.

Oh, how the polar bears in the Arctic regions must be hating me right now.