tenants

I’ll be brief – us humans are pretty thoughtless tenants on this one small planet we call home. We treat it as a stage for our frantic scurrying for more and more money and stuff. Few of us have any real profound connection to it.

We treat it as a warehouse for resources and raw materials to manufacture and acquire all the stuff we consume and accumulate. When the stuff breaks or wears out, like it’s designed to do, we treat any remaining open spaces as a dumping ground for the resulting waste. Then we go on the hunt for more stuff. Rinse and repeat. This isn’t the fault of any one administration or another. They come and go. It’s how our culture is constructed. We’ve bought in to it for decades. It’s on all of us.

We’re like irresponsible and thoughtless tenants who move into a place, trash it, burn the furniture and woodwork, and when they’ve made it unlivable move on to find another place. Except we have no place else to go.