I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut
…or take more than our share, or use public education or prisons or health care or the ocean or the earth as a source of short term financial profit? It is really hard to imagine what is in ‘their’ minds and what more they could want since they can’t leave one little resource untapped.
But like Scrooge in The Christmas Carol, is there a way to touch their humanity, their hearts, their common sense about the dire consequences of their ways — if they were forced to see the real effects?
I wish Charles Dickens were alive, or maybe the writers on Saturday Night Live could write for the ghosts of Earth Past, Earth Present, Earth Future to visit the current Scrooge billionaires.
There would be so much sadness and pain to choose from–what would be most powerful or most important to show them if you just had one night? We could show public education or the ocean or elderly or the country’s infrastructure….oh the list goes on and I wonder if they really do not see it already or they don’t believe it or they don’t care because they think they will be protected.
There is a reason for so many film and animated versions of The Christmas Carol but we haven’t had a live (not animated) version for twenty years. Time for a current day Scrooge to be visited by the ghosts.
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The Christmas Carol 1935 1:08 for the happy ending.