snowy Gnomes

in an empty world

Snowy Gnomes, in an empty world

Or so the story would go, if left unchecked. But happily enough, we do have editors. Authors might dislike them for their obsessive corrections and never ending feedback on story as well as choice of words, or love them for their behind the scenes story saving work.

The snowy gnomes of the world might, like wise, feel an outmost lack of respect for the clumsy nature of humans wildlife editors — also called conservationists and scientists, as they rummage around in both the country side and deep forests. as well as continually tanning in the artificial lights of sterile labs and concrete big city jungles.

But, they certainly appreciate the outcome of their work, for without natures editors, our dear politicians and color blind corporate leaders (most, if not all of them, only see black and red after all) would have run us all head first in to a world of hurt — even more then already is the case.

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From the tiny, miniscule stuff to the bigger, broader pencil strokes of climate change and global events such as WW 1 and 2, The Gulf war(s), air pollution, outsourcing, equality, poverty, fresh water, food production, it´s quality and price and environmental impact as well as scarcity and distribution. Emissions goals and clean, sustainable energy vs short term profit for unsustainable, dirty and life damaging energy producers and other corporate ventures (such as Fracking).

- If left unchecked, as bad as things are today in the world.

The state of the world would have been tremendously much worse without conservationists and scientists to at times shine a light on the simple reality so many others want to dismiss entirely as soon as it does not line up with their own short term profit.

Sometimes those things are big and quite easy to see — such as how air pollution in China affects other countries and not just the poor Chinese people living in the daily smog that cuts their life expectancy short by up to 20 years. Air pollution they of course would never have had to endure in the first place if the rest of the world did not outsource unsustainably cheap and dirty production to China in the first place.

But sometimes important things are quite small and seemingly insignificant at first glance. To the point that we might not even give them the briefest thought.

One such thing often over looked by decision makers as well as your neighbor is our garden caretaker, the bumble bees and their siblings.

And yet another one that is arguably a quite different beast but also very much related to the bumble bee in how it directly affects us and our world in a significant and often over looked way is the apex predators. On the surface, they are nothing but gracelike predatory killers, possessive of great beauty but also a potential threat to our health and sometimes, income.

But that is being simple minded and over looking the hugely positive net worth they give us and the rest of the world just by existing.

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Snowy gnomes, in an empty world