Post by arthurlee

My wish for Mother Earth is that there soon will be no need to celebrate Earth Day anymore, as showing support for environmental protection will become absolutely ordinary! 🌏💙

But how can this be done? 🧐

I am confident the answer is easier than one may think: indeed, everybody should simply align their choices with their values. 😌

Ok, let’s face it: there probably is, and always will be, a number of groups and individuals who genuinely don’t care. 😒

Still, it’s a small minority! 🥳

No doubt most of the people in the world are unaware or barely aware that a problem even exists, but if they had access to the right information they couldn’t help but feel a genuine concern for the fate of Mother Earth. 😔

And it is of this large, unaware majority that I think when I make my wish: namely, that they bring ethics to their plate. 🫶🏻🍽

A choice that, besides saving our planet, will definitely make everyone a better human being. ✌🏻

I myself was sure I was doing “everything I could”. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I have always considered myself both an animal lover and an environmentalist. 🐾♻️

My parents have taught me to respect each and every living being. 🧘🏻‍♂️

My family and I have always advocated waste sorting and recycled a lot, turned off the tap while brushing our teeth, adopted abandoned pets, built bird feeders and boxes, fed stray animals, supported conservation organisations, collected garbage while on hikes or day trips, taken the infamous “shorter showers” and even turned off unnecessary lights in public places like schools and libraries to boot! 💁🏻‍♂️

And yet, consuming meat, fish and dairy products had always been considered normal and acceptable to me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It took me over 40 (forty!) years to make the connection… 🦥💆🏻‍♂️

…not only between the food on my plate and the unspeakable suffering it caused to animals, but also between the food on my plate and the devastating impact it had on our planet – as well as on human health. ⚠️🥀 🏥

This is why my wish is that as many people as possible will make the connection and will understand, better and much sooner than I did, how crucial it is to align your behaviour with your values and to take action, whenever you have the chance to do so, in the most ethical way. 💪🏻

Starting, of course, from what we put on our plate! 🥗

Now, that’s when we will really make every day Earth Day, and there will be no need to celebrate it as a special day. 💚

(I took this picture on the Albanian section of Lake Skadar. While the lone cow was more than happy to go for a swim, it immediately made me think of the catastrophic consequences of global sea level rise) 🌊🐄

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#earthday
#govegan