We didn’t master nature
By Claudia Befu
43.
The last time Homo sapiens
was forced to contemplate the future
was at the end of the last ice age.
We didn’t master nature.
We merely survived it.
44.
Nature is not a walk in the forest.
It is the air we breathe,
the water flushing our toilets,
the landfills piled with our garbage,
the oceans swimming in our plastic,
the rivers polluted with our chemicals,
the animals starved by the cities we feed,
the ice melted by the fossil fuels we burn.