Interview 8

LOIS M.
AGE: 53
OCCUPATION: RESTAURANT ASSISTANT MANAGER
EDUCATION LEVEL: MASTER OF COSMETOLOGY

KM: How do you envision the end of the world?
LM: Hmm, how to put it? Everything is amuck or amiss. Everything is in disarray. And the following morning everyone is sleeping and it is peaceful, and mother earth would begin again.
KM: It would be then, a slipping of humanity into a collective consciousness that would reincarnate itself to rebirth mother nature?
LM: Yes. Mother nature would reclaim herself. Because without Mother Nature we have nothing. I envision Mother Nature having no boundaries.
KM: Would this be then a rebirth of humanity as well? Or would the world just go on without the human species?
LM: The human species would have to reincarnate or redo themselves. Like we’d have one more chance to get it right.
KM: What is it that is so fundamentally wrong then with how the human species operates right now that Mother Nature would have to reassert herself in such a way?
LM: The human species in general taking what is given to us for granted. Not appreciating what we had in the beginning. Not appreciating the simple things.
KM: Are you referencing then the way in which we have been treating the earth since the industrial revolution?
LM: That’s probably when we first realized it. I think it dates back before that. But that’s when it really started to the point where it is now, when we have no way of stopping it.
KM: Then it is not only the way in which we are treating the earth, but the attitude and way of thinking that has gotten us to where we are today?
LM: Yeah, we always think it’s going to grow back and replenish itself. But it can’t re-grow and replenish when we keep polluting it and cutting it down.
KM: But you think ultimately that Mother Nature would give us a second chance?
LM: I do. Yeah, I believe she would ultimately cleanse the earth and start it again.