Humanity and Earth is United and Fragile

It is ironic that as the globe is united by an incurable deadly virus taking thousands of lives forcing humanity to hide and try to  recover in our homes away from events and public places that we are celebrating 50 years since we had a good look at earth from the moon? Should we be living lives in fear as a life half lived? Is this pandemic finally telling us to preserve our planet and listen to scientists about our preservation rather than listen to greedy business destroying our planet?

Billions are being spent on Space Force, an army in space or on Space travel trips to space stations but we don’t have enough money spent on scientists in the CDC worldwide or disease test kits. It is time to celebrate earth and the 50^th year of Earth Day this April 22, 2020. We need to apologize to our earth and figure out how to make things better. The first Earth Day was in 1970 because we were actively going and walking on the moon by 1970. It was then when the Saturn 5 dropped off American astronauts who took that step on the moon in 1969 when we discovered the earth. In the darkness of space we saw that beautiful sphere of blue seas, white clouds and ice caps over brown mountains unlike anything else ever seen still in any place anywhere. We didn’t see borders, walls, civilizations or wars. We didn’t see incurable diseases, poverty, extinct animals or pollution. Here we are 50 years later and humanity has learned NOTHING. We are now destroying ourselves forced to hide and hide from death that has no weapon we can see or sweep away clearly.

We tried 50 years ago when we voted in the EPA, The Environmental Protection Agency, we banned leaded gas by 1973, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was founded, we formed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. But we have Trump who has taken the scientists out of Washington, took 80% funding away from the Centers for Disease Control, hired trophy hunters to oversee our endangered animals, defunded all of these agencies, gives no authority to his appointed unqualified Surgeon General, is giving corporations the rights to pollute our land and water and now the world is polluted with deadly incurable disease. Is this how humanity ends?

NOW more than ever we need to take the 50^th Anniversary of Earth Day very seriously because our very survival on this our only habitable planet is in the most serious danger it has ever been in our collective lifetimes. Humans CAN control disease by eating food and not bats. We can provide safe clean water, food and land. We can stop wars get rid of nuclear weapons and power plants with destructive by products with nowhere to dispose of them. We can live without plastics polluting and never decomposing. We can still prosper financially without killing ourselves worldwide if we only had honest, responsible caring global leaders. Our globe needs to know what to fear and it is much more than this current destructive virus. We need to fear stupid folks making our only world’s major decisions.