🌱Before he starts at a new school this Monday, my son and I went on another mum & son adventure. But the place was purposedly chosen weeks ago and it was actually a combo lesson in kindness and ecology masked through adventure. We went to deliver kids' stuff such as school supplies, storybooks, milk drinks, and vitamins to a remote elementary school located at a rural town in another province. It was quite exhausting, but the rewards were priceless---the toothy smiles on the kids' faces and the innervating tranquility courtesy of the verdant beauty of the surrounding nature. On the drive back home, I was reminded of Maneesh de Moor's spectacular album from a couple of years ago entitled ''Icaro'' ([ Ссылка ]). My favourite track in it is called ''Calling in the Plants''. I love the music of Calling in the Plants the most because it is as if plants from all over the planet are proudly marching on a parade---from plants so tiny that they can only be seen under a microscope and from plants so huge such as the California sequoias and redwoods. However, listening to the music more closely will reveal that it vividly paints the picture of a tropical rainforest where there's a great diversity of plant and animal species. Tropical rainforests play a crucial role in keeping the climate stable. They also house many medicinal plants from which many modern (and emerging) pharmacologies are derived. Unfortunately, deforestation for commercial and agricultural purposes as well as mining activities have destroyed and continue to destroy on a daily basis vast expanses of the rainforests of South America (esp. in the Amazon region), Africa, and Southeast Asia. Unique plant and animal species not only become extinct but the global climate system is also disrupted. At present, many parts of the world are experiencing extreme and devastating effects of climate change, some in unprecedented ways. Super-typhoons/hurricanes, flashfloods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, &c. are the end products of superfluous precipitation and extreme heat caused by climate change. Advanced warning systems and better disaster management approaches help mitigate the damage brought about by these extreme weather events, but there needs to be a concerted effort amongst all nations (esp. developed ones) to radically combat climate change, to offset a far greater calamity that might befall us in the not so distant future. We are all connected in this irrespective of our neck of the woods, regardless of the severity of climate change's impact on each one of us. It is high-time for us to proactively act, to do the best we can, before it is too late.

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