If I could un-invent something, it would be carbon emissions. I’d take the brightest minds in eco-friendly methods today and go back to the beginning of our folly. I’d teach our ancestors how to better set us up for the future. Teach them the importance of all life on the planet, how much we need it, and what happens when it goes away.
Wouldn’t it be something to be able to go back and inform our ancestors of the mistakes we stumbled into? To change the course of history for the betterment of our planet so we don’t have to watch it slowly perish? So we don’t have to worry about leaving a broken world for our children?
Yet, time machines don’t exist, and I wonder what it would say about us if we went back and stopped the mistake from happening instead of living with it and fixing it in the now? That’s the easy way out, isn’t it? Imagine everything we learned along the way that we would erase. What good things occurred because of the world turning to carbon emissions? As much as I’d love to eliminate carbon emissions and save all the extinct or going extinct species, I can’t. We can only improve today. It may seem bad. The world may be falling apart, but it’s not going to get better without us and there’s still time. There’s still plenty of time to un-invent now what we can’t all those years ago.
nikki diekemper 