SiTU
ACADEMY
lesson
8
“You
ask me, in what state our world is today and you even expect an
answer.
The
truth is in the stories told, so I will answer you with a story. It
is the tale of the magic waterlilly.
Once
upon a time a knight with his family lived in a tower in the middle
of a lake. One way or another the magic waterlilly landed in the
lake.
Why
was it called “the magic waterlilly”?
This
waterlilly had one characteristic. During the night the lilly split
in two, so in the morning there were two waterlillies, the next day
four and so on.
A
beautiful sight, seen from the tower.
After
three weeks, 21 days, the lake was half filled with beautiful
waterlillies.
The
question is: When will the surface of the lake be completely covered
with flowers?”
Most
people answer 42 and relax. But in reality it is after 22 days! When
the knight woke up the next morning the lake-surface was covered. The
big question is: what will happen next?
When
you change the story in a tale about plastic, I would say the state
of our world is this: we are in the night before the dawn of day 22!
Plastic
accumulates in the oceans and the stuff cannot be destroyed. It is
accumulating in enormous areas (garbage-patches). In the meantime
more and more plastics are getting into the eco-system and finally
the oceans. Untill this flow turns into a “tsunami”, that cannot
be stopped.
Fish,
birds, seamamals, deer, holy cows or elephants. They all are killed
in huge numbers by consuming plastics.
We
are killing the environment, the system we are part of. Mass suicide?
We
all believe, that we have another 20 “days” to solve the problem.
That is time, we don't have.
I
hope, this answers your question, ….for this moment”.
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