The endurance of the Monarch Butterfly can show us how to save ourselves

There are a few things that impress me like the Monarch Butterflies. Of course, when you see the nature working, it is amazing how it transforms itself, fighting to be alive. Here in Canada is specially outstanding, as during 4 or 5 months, everything is covered in snow, and on the spring everything grows so fast, trying to enjoy the new weather. 

But, as I said before, the Monarch Butterflies are even more amazing, at least for me. They literally just don't cease to exist because they fly, through a multigenerational flight, all the way to Mexico or even further away during the winter. And this is what amazes me the most. To survive, they literally give their life's, generations of butterflies are born and die during this cycle. Just to maintain their species.

That is why I choose this name. Because we, as humans, need to start to do something similar. We will endure through difficult times, on a journey that will be the salvation of our species. It might, as for the Monarch, cost us generations. But if we do not migrate now to a more sustainable way of living, the winter will come to us and we will not survive. Our whole species is at risk because our pattern of consumerism ends up destroying our own home.

Our migration should be intellectual and mental. We will only be able to continue our species if we successfully migrate. We must surpass this winter that we have ahead, and then our future generations will again, be able to see the spring coming, thriving for life, as everything does here in Canada every year.

 
PS.: I took this picture in august of 2020 at the Ornamental Gardens at Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa and an artist from Brazil painted it for me in watercolour. 

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