{"id":16806,"date":"2026-05-17T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/05\/17\/environmentalist-slams-humanity-for-choosing-greed-and-social-media-over-survival\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:40:10","slug":"environmentalist-slams-humanity-for-choosing-greed-and-social-media-over-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/05\/17\/environmentalist-slams-humanity-for-choosing-greed-and-social-media-over-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalist Slams Humanity for Choosing Greed and Social Media Over Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYbquDeSITN\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYbquDeSITN\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">Environmentalist and wildlife advocate, Nat Kyriacou, just completely exposed how broken our priorities are. Think about it: we have the entire sum of human knowledge sitting right in our pockets, yet as a society, we\u2019ve chosen to look away. We traded the survival of our planet for corporate greed, social media scrolls, and mindless distractions while the world literally burns.<\/p>\n<p>We are officially the most connected, yet the most disconnected generation to ever walk the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Kyriacou pointed out the absolute insanity of our era. We have the exact science and data needed to fix climate change, save wildlife, and stop mass suffering. Instead, that intelligence gets buried under a wave of algorithm-driven garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Social media algorithms are literally designed to keep us distracted, outraged, and entertained by nonsense. While ecosystems collapse, we\u2019re kept too pacified to actually stand up and change things.<\/p>\n<p>Future generations aren\u2019t going to care how many followers we had or how much profit companies made. They\u2019re going to look back and ask why we had all the answers and still chose to do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>LOG OFF, WAKE UP. OUR SURVIVAL IS NOT AN ALGORITHM.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of @nat_kyriacou <\/p>\n<p>#NatKyriacou #ClimateCrisis #WildlifeAdvocate #environment #climatecrisis<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nNat Kyriacou: We had access to more information than any civilization in human history, and we used it chiefly to quarrel with strangers on small, glowing rectangles owned by hairless billionaires, who discovered that they could monetize human misery, vanity and emotional instability. We had robust scientific data, and we used it to form conspiracy theories, deny climate change and perfect plastic surgery techniques. We built an economic system that prospered from oil spills, war, cancer, drug addiction, gambling addiction, mental health crisis. But we didn&#8217;t consider human or environmental health. We also invented social media, and it promptly addicted us, surveilled us, radicalized us, destroyed our attention spans, damaged our children psychologically, and gave teenagers eating disorders every three years. Millions of people would gather in school halls to perform a sacred ritual. They would vote between a small number of very similar looking men who would go on to lead the country. Having performed this sacred election ritual, voters would spend the following years ignoring politics entirely while binge watching reality TV and listening to male podcast host discuss protein supplements and whether or not women&#8217;s rights was ruining civilization. We were the only species that actively debated whether or not we should maintain the environmental conditions necessary for our own continued existence, ensuring the health of things like the atmosphere and forests and oceans would presumably be an obvious priority for a species that rely entirely on those things to survive. But no environmental debate became so tedious that by the end of it, even the environmentalists were sick of the environment. Children were starving en masse, and though\u2026Sorry. I&#8217;m good, I&#8217;m good. The children were starving en masse. And though we had the ability to stop that, we chose not to. A very small number of individuals accumulated more wealth in entire nations. And then they used it to purchase yachts, media companies, private space programs, and often just bought the political system itself. Humans are unique, not in the impressive way, like an octopus that can change colors, but like a person that clips their toenails on the bus. We have split the atom, we&#8217;ve cracked the genetic code, and we&#8217;ve hurtled expensive metal objects into space. But when it comes to the question of whether we should keep our own planet habitable and our own people alive, we remain curiously undecided. We have turned the simple matter of survival into an endless controversy. There is nothing inevitable about the way that we run our economies, or draft our laws, or govern our societies. These systems have no independent existence. They exist because we will them too. They are human constructs, unlike the laws of nature, like gravity, for example, which applies equally to everyone. Human made systems like economics, law, and politics are made up and often structured to the advantage of a small and select group of people. And that is why gravity applies to everybody. But tax loopholes do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon) Environmentalist and wildlife advocate, Nat Kyriacou, just completely exposed how broken our priorities are. 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