The “Modern World”

Cha Cha, our platypus friend, was thinking about what the “Modern World” had become—and how paradoxical it was. Thanks to new technologies that turned machines into the world’s new servants, life had become easier for some of the richest countries.

But this comfort came at the cost of irreversible damage to the environment—damage that was only understood later, as a result of the very progress brought by the Industrial Revolution.

Now, we can see and understand the causes and effects of a global world, because we were the ones who created it.

Cha Cha wondered why caring for the planet we live on wasn’t everyone’s first priority. Shouldn’t taking care of our most essential needs come before everything else?

But has the modern world gone too far?

There is no simple solution that doesn’t make each of us face our own responsibilities as humans sharing the same Earth.

But who truly has the courage to do so…