Sustainability for a late teen

Benedict Aleh Ogadinma
3 min readMay 12, 2021

(maybe you should read this)

“ Why do you keep going with this ? “

This is the first thing that comes into my mind after I acknowledge the “Sustainability problem”.

“ It’s very complicated “, I thought after a few days, after research, after a “brainstorming” with video online.

I don’t know too much about nature, the only thing is that I don’t love the “ecological world”, especially insects.

I always heard a voice in the background like “there is a problem, but don’t worry ” in my childhood.

This is a problem.

A BIG PROBLEM.

When I go to the park in my village to do some workouts I see plastic in the ground, this means that all the children that use to play there (10 to 14 years) are not concern about this issue.

If they don’t take care of it at this age, when?

But ok, let’s move forward, in somewhat we find a solution.

Growing up, I see the difference in this trend.

All the world now talk about this problem.

10 years ago, the people that used to say “attention, this is a problem, for nature and us” were answered like

“Ah, shut up man, are you like the Maya? We are not

more in 2012 you know? “

Now those same guys, say.

“Ok, let’s reflect on this now”.

Why not before??

Tell me, please, why?

(Maybe we all know the answer to this question but nobody won’t say)

Now we see brands take steps into this topic.

Because “ if you are not talking about it, mean that you don’t care for it “ you know?

For this type of thinking several brands change their faces, or fail trying.

The problem now is that most of the labels do greenwash (they talk green but they act in a different position).

Several people when they want to buy things like hats or jeans, look at the brand, the green face of it, and think “is it greenwashing or not? ”

Goooooood play label, really good.

I think that the brand doing that sort of type of thing is not concern about the future.

A future when if you are not 100% green, you must be 50%, because 1%, isn’t enough now.

I’m sorry, but this is the real truth.

1% , 5% , 10% , isn’t enough.

60 or more percent at least, I think it’s pretty good.

We usually talk about problems that are not primary against us, like they are not problems.

This is incorrect.

The world is our problem because we live here.

Now we have the competition to carbon-neutral before 2050 or 2030 for some country, and Elon will take us to Mars in 2050.

That’s 4 digits got some special things.

The only way we can change this is to act like humans, not men, women, vegetarians, vegan, or another naming.

Humans.

I do not say “you have to eat only vegetables from now or you are an assassin ”

No.

I only say “It’s better to understand this now, because perhaps tomorrow will no longer exist, neither for us nor for our offspring”

So, I hope these words, can change some things, even if is a little part of the giant universe.

I don’t know if you like this or not.

Or if you think like “Ok, this man has got some good and bad thought”

Maybe this case is the most affordable.

The only thing I can say now is that I want to public more script about this, innovation, and personal development.

I wish you all the well in this world and please think about sustainability at least for one moment in your day.

This is a late teen’s vision of sustainability.

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