You as an individual cannot do anything about it - It is time that the enterprises of the world take their responsibility

I was from a young age drilled with the responsibility of climate change. To be aware of the waste, clean up, and be aware that my own actions might attribute to the loss of nature on our dear planet earth. There was a TV show from my childhood called “Tippen” during the summer of ‘93 that followed a gang of garbage collectors and their zany stories - mostly focusing on what you as a child should do to clean up the environment and hopefully push your parents to do the same. I remember spending a weekend cleaning up a nearby forest and sending in a letter describing this. I got back a tshirt and a pin for a job well done! Thinking back, the stuff I got for my weekend in the forest probably negated the value of the cleanup, but it made me feel good.

Speaking about feeling good for the environment; our current situation with Covid-19 has made many proclaim that the environment is getting better and that we even might stop climate change BBC. The bitter truth is probably far from it. You as an individual will not be able to stop climate change. We, as the world came to a stop during a brief period when Covid-19 was spreading in the beginning of 2020, not traveling and as a result the oil price fell like a stone World bank. The environment finally had some time to heal. But it wasn’t enough and it still isn’t enough.

Efforts to control COVID-19 transmission have reduced economic activity and led to temporary improvements in air quality in some areas. In contrast, as carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that drive climate change persist for a long time in the atmosphere, temporary emissions reductions only have a limited effect on atmospheric concentrations. Carbon dioxide levels at observing stations around the world in the first months of 2020 have been higher than in 2019. World health organization

It is not strange that children and teens live with constant anxiety. They are well aware that they are not able to fix this mess, and they will have to live with it. I keep thinking about the 17-year-old patient who was so concerned about climate change that he believed that if he continued to drink water or use it for tasks at home, millions of people would soon die Scientific American.

The real change we need is a change of responsibility. We as individuals cannot make the environment go back on track again - it is far too late. Only the large businesses of the world can. Only the enterprises that drives the economy can. It is time that they take their responsibility, as many individuals have done, and fundamentally change their values. Their current effort is not enough.

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