For reasons that elude me, we have all booked a yearly travel around the Sun in the Milky Way on a planet rotating at just the right speed, with just the right gravity and the perfect atmosphere for all elements that our species requires to survive the journey. Globally, you\u2019re looking to make this trip on an average of 77 times. But you\u2019re fucking it up for yourself and for everyone else travelling with you. Imagine if we were all doing this trip in a car. Let\u2019s say there\u2019s five of us and we all produce an average of 2.2 kilos of trash per day, and drink an average of 1 litre of water per day and use another 380. That\u2019s 4 tons of trash, and nearly 700,000 litres of water a year in that single car. Now, imagine you can\u2019t throw it out and you can\u2019t get new water. That\u2019s pretty much what we\u2019re doing, increasing the amount of shit we carry, reducing the resources on which this whole trip runs, diluting our drinking water, hooking a tube up to the exhaust and I think on top of it all, the soundtrack is getting pretty shitty, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you believe we\u2019ve still got a long time before the gas runs out, or one of us dehydrates, or someone starts beating the driver, or the backseat passengers start a fight and Spotify goes offline because we\u2019re driving in Spain and there\u2019s a massive grid failure you\u2019re wrong. It\u2019s happening right now. If you\u2019re looking for absolution, or a message of hope\u2026 you gotta look further. Beyond the horizon. If we ever make it there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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