When I considered
different title options, BREATHLESS was the one I liked best. For a
little while I was wondering whether it might be disrespectful to all
those people suffering in the ICUs at the moment. But I figured there are far
more people who lose their breath through smoking than through a coronavirus, so in the end I stuck with it. Then, two days before I
published the video, George Floyd said his last words: I can't
breathe.
The year 2020 –
BREATHLESS indeed!
And in case that a pandemic and
full blown racism don't convince you yet, check out the news (here and here)
from the Amazon where record amounts of rainforest are torn down,
destroying the lungs of the planet. You might survive Covid-19, you
might survive racist violence and you might even survive smoking. But
will you survive a world without trees?
What a mess! Let's just hope that our wisdom will grow faster than our destructive madness. In the meantime, here's my little documentary: BREATHLESS - quitting smoking in lockdown
