#climate clock

You jump into these worlds, so quick. Deeply getting invested, until the world you live in falls away and you immerse yourself utterly into that new universe. Marinating in the escapism of it all. Watching or being in the role of hero, the builders, the lovers, the excitement of having control over ones destiny and autonomy. Often taking accountability for this other world's problems by watching the through reading or jumping into the multiverse that is a save file of those games... yet, how often do we do this with our own lives.

Yes we go about our daily lives, perhaps "pay it forward", but really, how is it that so many of use grew up with wonderful stories and games of a heroes who save the world... yet ours is falling to ruin.

How many of us are actually trying to be the hero of this world? We work so hard to save the realms of our stories in games and give our watchful mind's eye to our precious pages... yet our world is dying, our people are dying, the creatures and beasts of this world are literally on thin ice... yet here WE are. The heroes of relms, the readers of countless fates... we all need a distraction, we all need to feel like we can accomplish something, we all want to feel like we know more then what's being said... yet we feel so powerless to stand up to those multibillion dollar companies that are ravaging this world, OUR world...

Our word's scientists say we have 6 years before climate change is irreversible...

Sounds like the beginning of some sort of netflix movie... but it isnt it? I wonder who in the future will read our stories and ask themselves how we let it all happen. How we just sat here, investing our time in saving universes and world of our human creation in the multiverse of the save files, while it all crumbled down around us... there is no easy answer, there is no easy path, there is no old man mentor who's going to come get us for this epic quest, there is no magic spellbook to empower us, there is no radioactive spiders or destiny amulets... there is only us.

"The heroes journey" is the most popular storyline we all tend to love... but our storyline is not so simple. We cannot make change by traditional means anymore. We need to start looking at the positions of power and realise they've been paid off by the bad guys. We MUST vote for our destiny to change and in some casses voting isn't enough like that two party system in the usa. We need to start becoming the people in those positions, there is no sword nor beast to slay, we must take up the pen and aim our 'active quest' to becoming the ones in power or voting in those who will stand up and be the heroes this world, OUR world needs.

We have 6 years... this isn't a flipping switch, this is a slow decent, look at the news, look at the fires, the storms the floods, the wars, the starvation, the rising prices, the rebelling farmers.... the screams of the innocent dying, crying out for help. Look at us saving these other man made realms of escapism... how long before the famine empties our local shelves, how long until the flood waters kiss our doorsteps, how long until the choking heat of smoke makes your skies orange and hazy... we turn a blind eye in fear, and run into the safety of these worlds. Fixing their problems seems so much easier, our human made worlds being repaired over and over again by each reader and each players save files... I wonder if anyone will ever read our story some day.

I sit here somewhat cynically. I'm interested in saving this world yet I am also a gamer, reader, dreamer... I do not want to loose faith that we'll manage to make everything right in the end as a society... but the fact is, the people in charge, the people handling the money (paying the politicians like sportscare racers who have the sponsorship logo patches on their vest) are the only ones who can change things, yet they feed their wallets until we'll all burn like they always have. They're only REAL power is purchasing and getting us to purchase their goods. They use politicans and judges as their tools, without them they are mostly defanged.

So dear gamers, readers and dreamers... please, please vote, please try to run for office, please try to do at least do some small thing in ONE main mission quests of YOUR world.

My world is dying and I'm tierd of fighting. The indomitable souls around me, my fellow heros, busy in other worlds. I can't fight this all alone, no one can. The ones who have been fighting, protesting, we all need to help them. Protesting is going mostly on def ears, for the villain won't just stop if we ask nicely.

We need to take back the tools and place them in the hands who aren't corrupted by big gass/plastic companies and so on. We need to ask the companies that we work for to change, even if its a small change as getting them to stop using plastic knives and forks at work... even if it means being brave and doing a presentation to our boss how a filter on the chimney to our plant will help keep immisions down and telling them of the tax exemptions some governments have. We need to tell our city leaders we want the rivers cleaned, we need to volunteer at clean up beaches organizations, we need to get salmon selling companies interested in saving their products eco systems and breeding grounds, what ever it takes, what ever small quest we can do to help the bigger one. We don't have the luxury of a save file, we can't just flip the pages or write fanfic to make it all better. This life is the only save file / cannon we have

This main quest, cannot be completed alone by one hero... but maybe, maybe we many heroes of 'man made' realms, doing small mini task quests to complete OUR worlds main storyline... maybe, we can have a chance... we only need one chance to make things right.

Just thought I'd share this...

El Reloj del Apocalipsis, o Doomsday Clock, es un símbolo icónico creado en 1947 por los científicos del Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists para alertar sobre la cercanía de la humanidad a una catástrofe global. Este reloj metafórico mide el riesgo de autodestrucción a través de la medianoche, que representa un colapso irreversible causado por amenazas como la guerra nuclear, el cambio climático,…