When I was younger I used to watch a lot of documentaries on World War II with my dad on television. These documentaries were very thorough and covered everything from how Hitler came to power in Germany to the effects of dropping the first and second atomic bombs. I remember feeling genuinely shocked and depressed. It was hard for me to wrap my head around the events of World War II, on the actions and war tactics taken by both sides of the war. I was shocked because at 10 years old I had not experienced that type of blind hatred. I had not yet witnessed any person outright do the wrong thing, when the right thing to do was so obvious.
The documentary, An Inconvenient Truth reminded me of this old feeling. The fact the right thing to do is so obvious, not only ethically but also statically, and still individuals choose to not recognize this issue quite honestly frightens me. I understand that one's job sometimes requires one to have to deny the issue, but then why are there companies choosing to make their employees deny Climate Change? When the Earth is at stake, NOTHING should be more important.
When Earth was shown as the space craft was leaving the galaxy, and our planet was shown as a very tiny pixel, Earth's smallness became even more apparent to me. We have no other home.
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