Truth is, you don't have to care. You will probably be able to live a long, healthy-ish life without caring about this earth. Or maybe not, there is no definite time clock for our planet.
What I do know, is that this earth is our home. It feeds us, allows us to breathe, bathes us in sunlight, gives us life. We truly owe no obligation to the people of the future. However, why wouldn't you want someone else to experience the ability to live? The ability to see sights such as the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Glacier National Park, the Balkans, the Dead Sea, coral reefs and our ocean swells. Why would you deprive your children, cousins, family, friends of such a beautiful thing?
One thing I think a lot of people will get wrong in this lifetime, is the course of events. It's not going to be us surviving within a world of technology and concrete after we have destroyed our soils, land, air quality, and water. We will destroy our planet, and in turn we will be destroyed alongside it. Mother Earth will find her way. She will swallow the roads, grow ivy along our buildings, replenish our nutritious soils, and rise again after our demise.
We are powerful beings. So powerful, we have created artificial things, technologies, and landmarks that did not exist before. Why not harness that power into something even more? If we can channel all this technology and creation into a force that protects our coexistence with the other organisms on this planet, we can thrive.
You don't have to care, but this is your home. Without it, we would not make it.
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