Oxygen

ABasicNeed

By V. Martin

For the past ten years I have notice an increase use of oxygen by elderly and now even the young. My dog has trouble breathing sometimes, as well. There is now aa increase in respiratory illness and deseases. It is my belief it is directly related to the lack of trees. If you think about it it makes sense since trees provided us with oxygen as they cleaned our air of carbon monoxide. With fewer and fewer trees oxygen is harder and harder to come by. If we’re not careful we will all be hauling around oxygen tanks.

Forests can’t recover as fast as they use to because we don’t have enough birds to fertilize and spread the seeds like they use to. If we don’t do something, like yesterday, we are all going to die. Don’t ask me why I care when I have no children to leave behind to suffer in this world we so carelessly created. Except, there are so many children without anyone and I think of them as my own and I don’t want them to have to worry about anything but surviving.  It’s hard enough navigating this world with a family and almost impossible to do without one.  

If there are people on this planet that will survive everything you or Mother Nature throws at them it will be my children. We are resistant, smart, inventive, creative, and indestructible we will be the ones to find away, no the way will find us and make us live to see another day then another and another… 

Don’t get me wrong, this is not what I want to happen but I see us making no real changes to save this planet and the people that call it home. I think we want to be the last, we like the idea of everything ending with us. Not even our children are important enough to make us do things differently so nothing is. So we will continue to try to breathe without oxygen. We will continue to support nuclear power, which I believe to be killing us. We will continue to fly commercial airlines and travel on big cruise ships. We will continue to throw away batteries, plastics, chemicals, and whatever else we feel like. We will continue to treat water instead of filter it. We will stay happily plugged into the grid, even after it caused one of the costliest fires in Colorado history. Death and destruction are certainly no reason to do anything different.

Not having enough oxygen to support everyone on the planet is going to lead to more illnesses, deseases, of the mind and body. The air we are breathing is full of chemicals and pollution leading to a lot of mentally ill people and without clean air and water things will get worse. 

It is not my intention to be negative or depress anyone it is however, to inspire and/or challenge people to get thinking and coming up with viable answers before it’s too late. I wish I had a million dollars to give away but no amount of money will buy us out of this mess. Maybe if we valued life as much as we do money we would have been more careful with life. Every living thing is connected, you cannot destroy one without destroying all.