Take the bus to go to work. Recycle. Carry always the same reusable bottle of water. Don’t consume products with palm oil. Don’t buy spray deodorant. Never drink through a plastic straw. Use less water, less heat, less light, less time. Save the planet. Don’t you want to save the planet?
To be honest no, I don’t want to save the planet. I don’t want to save it because this planet is not mine.
The world is used and misused by an elite of important, respectful and powerful mandataries. They decide what the people, “the plebs”, are going to eat, to do, to breath. They point at one screen and we pay more for the same electricity bill. While they yawn in the morning we drink the chemical organic compounds they released in the water. While they have a quiet night at home we work extra hours for buying that new product they launched on the market. They sing and we dance with the music. They poison the oceans, the sky, the land. They get richer and richer and tell us, from their private jets, how pollutant are our holidays at the beach.
So many cars on the roads this weekend, don’t you want to save the planet?
Eating beef on Christmas Day, don’t you want to save the planet?
The heater on everyday of the month, don’t you want to save the planet?
They shout at us from their private villas, from their private helicopters, from their private pools, private gyms, private universe. They tell us how our insignificant distractions destroy the planet they own, use and enjoy.
A ten percent of the habitants of the planet are responsible for half of the emission of greenhouse gases. Each person of the one percent richest in the United States, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Canada produce 200 tons of CO₂ every year. In the meantime, 50% of the world population are responsible uniquely for the 13% of pollution on the planet.
Multinational companies like Coca-Cola, Danone, Nestlé or Unilever post adverts about responsible consume, saving the pandas or promoting their NGO’s ridiculous efforts to clean the oceans or use sustainable components for their products. All of them are in the shameful list of the ten most responsible firms for the use of plastic, emission of gases and devastating effects in the forests and oceans.
The killers blaming us for the crime, giving us the guilt, the punishment, the sadness of their own deeds.
I don’t want to save the planet, because I can’t. It’s not in my hands because they are clean of shame.
The blame belong to you, just like everything else.
