Today, I read a wonderfully complex and thought-provoking quote from one of my favorite anthropologists (and dashing adventurer), Claude Levi-Strauss: "The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it." The quote is from his most famous piece of literature, "Tristes Tropiques", and it makes me wonder what we want to leave behind for the earth to gaze upon when we are gone. Will it be the total destruction of all living things, or will it be a globe covered in fields and forests and clean air?
I want to help the world understand that if we don't start living for the future, we won't have one.
So please, next time you go to throw a bottle in the trash or buy a car, think of the future, not just the moment. If we all realize that every single person on this planet is just as important as the next, we can start to go towards one goal: helping each other.
I hope this post inspires a few people. It's good to have something to make you think; keeps you on you toes :)
