Sustainability
I shot photos the other week for a Carbon Sustainability Group’s dinner. Yesterday I saw the social media post that they made. Each of the attendees of the dinner mentioned, in the post, something they want you to do to help the planet. The man from Wells Fargo said that you should take time away from your phone.
“It’s already too late,” a man speaking from a podium said at another one of the group’s events. This one took place in the LA Water District’s headquarters. A collection of educated people and business owners walked around, networking. “So every little bit that we can do helps.” It seemed like a message of panic, which felt like sanity to me.
Which is a bit of how I felt yesterday, taking time away from my phone, driving around Big Bear, looking at the lake. I sweat in my car and looked up different waterfront hikes to cool off. Some were closed because of trash and graffiti; another was closed because so many people parked at the trail that emergency vehicles could not make it through. Too much off-road traffic. One person died of dehydration; another had to be airlifted out; many others mentioned “pack water, and then pack more water, and pack more than double the amount you think you need.” All of that took place in the span of a week. Emergency vehicles stood motionless and trapped. There was nothing they could do. I looked at the lake instead. Algae, perpetually in the “caution” zone, blooms in Big Bear Lake. I drove down the mountain.
The dinner post for this sustainability group: The Walt Disney Company wants you to go to aquariums; a company in the Port of Long Beach wants you to vote for Kamala; and, finally, one member, who got her PhD in legal philosophy, wants you to outlaw ecocide.