Alright, so I'm afraid our world is going down the shit hole. The polar ice caps are melting. The Athabasca glacier has receeded like 5km or something since the 80s, I think. They're saying that in the next 100 years it will probably disappear altogether. When I watch the coverage of big, huge pieces of this previously timeless, magnificent, ice structure breaking off and disappearing into the ocean I feel like crying.

Whenever we go to Jasper (that's in Alberta folks. And Alberta is a province in Canada) the signs are all there along the sides of the highways:
Athabasca glacier! Next left!
Athabasca glacier! 2Km!
Whatever is going to happen to all those lovely green signs? I'm being sarcastic, I hope you realize.

Then there are the oil sands, or should I just say hell. Because I've seen them on tv, and trust me, they look like how I imagine hell to be. Big smoke stacks, grey sky, black sands, metal factory pipes, brown water, no human life. The workers are always hidden from view. Maybe it's an artistic decision! Fits the mood of desolation and doom better, I suppose.

But about these workers, I've heard they're angry, tough, grumpy, not the sort you'd like to sit down and have a cup of tea with. I bet you they're all going to get sick, breathing in that toxic air and seeing nothing but ugliness everyday. It can't be good for the body or the mind.

The caribou are getting sick. Fish are dying. The Native people who live downriver from the oilsands have to choose between their culture/ their way of life/ the food they've eaten for generations, and the strange new cancers some of them are getting. It's terribly unfair.

The thing that confuses me though, is that like Anne Frank, I believe humanity is basically good. How can goodness cause so much destruction? And how can I make a difference and help the world when there are so many other things I have to do?

I guess I can write. Writing is so powerful. It spawns revolutions, religions, cultures.
And I can talk. I'm also quite good at that. Speak. Write. Hope for the best. And learn. The more I know, the more I can change things.
It's MY world. You have to ask ME before you can fuck it up. And guess what I'll say? No!