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My niece asked me why we don't just fix the ocean
I was babysitting my 6 year old niece in Portland last weekend and she saw a sad turtle picture on my phone. She just looked up and said, 'Aunt Mary, why don't all the grown-ups just stop putting bad stuff in the water?' It hit different coming from a kid, zero cynicism, just pure logic. I fumbled through an answer about money and systems, but her simple 'why not' stuck with me all week. Anyone else had a kid's question totally reframe a huge problem for them?
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paige3318d ago
That "why not" logic from kids really gets me, my nephew asked why we can't just make a new sun when it gets cold.
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linda_dixon498d ago
Wow, that actually hits different hearing it from a kid. I used to get annoyed by those wild "why not" questions, like why not just build a giant fan to blow away hurricanes. But honestly, her nephew's sun thing makes a scary kind of sense. We're sitting here trying to tweak a broken thermostat instead of asking why the whole house is falling apart. It really does make you feel like we gave up on the big fixes before we even tried.
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Honestly that question would have left me speechless too, it's so brutally simple. Kids really do cut right to the heart of things we've made way too complicated. Like @paige331's nephew with the new sun idea, it's the same kind of pure logic that just makes you stop and feel a little stupid. Tbh her "why not" probably hits harder than any climate report ever could. Makes you wonder when exactly we all decided to just accept the broken systems instead of fixing them.
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