I saw a meme where a Turkish man had spent the last 30 years using his personal income to buy and plant over 11,000 trees in a valley in the desert and Turkey. And how great that was that he did that.
I thought about it for a few minutes and then I wondered why no one was complaining about the environment that he ruined. People look at deserts and think they are lifeless but they're not. Life is different in the desert. Water is scarce, animals are different colors to blend in with the sand and rocks. If there are wild plants they are scraggly and usually small because of the lack of water and continued sunshine every day beating on them.
I find it fascinating that people automatically use their filters for what they believe is "better" to judge the actions of somebody like this man and say that what he did was good.
It's kind of like the whole effort to go to Mars and colonize another planet. I love Star Trek and I love the idea of space travel and exploring the galaxy and even the universe, but right now Mars is a "pristine" environment littered with many failed robots that are trash on the surface of the planet. There are a few that are still active and are leaving tracks in the sand of a pristine planet. And we have a growing constellation of satellites that are orbiting this other planet that is untouched by human hands except through robots.
While I understand people looking at what we're doing here in our own backyard I don't understand why nobody is crying out to save Mars.
At least that's the logic that I keep seeing. And it's the logic that the majority of people accept as right and true. I tend to question those things and wonder what were missing when we just accept things.
