our common home

“Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire.” Greta Thunberg If your house is burning, what would you do? What would you save? Who would you save? Ask yourself these questions. Many of you quickly respond, “My family.” In this house we call planet Earth, every living creature is our family member. From every atom to the largest tsunami, we are all connected and related. Yet, even though our common home is on fire, we turn our gaze away from our burning house with our family stuck and struggling inside. We pass the responsibility of saving our loved ones to others. We dismiss  the guilt of leaving our family to die and placing it on those who cannot afford to run into the burning house. Now the question becomes, why should we care […]