CAPITAL SIN 4 : SLOTH
"ALLEGORY OF THE ORANGE PIZZLIES"
#Sloth@FA

Sloth (Latin: tristitia, or acedia "without care") is associated with laziness, procrastination, and a lack of motivation or purpose. It can manifest in many ways, from failing to complete necessary tasks or responsibilities to neglecting one's own health or personal relationships.
Sloth can be particularly insidious because it can lead to a sense of apathy and indifference towards one's own life and the world around them. This can result in a lack of engagement with important issues and a failure to make meaningful contributions to society.
Some contemporary examples of sloth include procrastinating on important tasks, avoiding exercise or healthy habits, failing to engage in meaningful relationships with others, and ignoring opportunities for personal or professional growth.

And the picture? It is about bears.
It is about grizzly bears and polar bears.

As the global warming is progressing, in North Alaska and North Canada, the natural habitat of grizzly bears and polar bears is more and more overlapping. To that extent that they are more and more mating, resulting in a "hybrid" called "pizzlies".

And so the picture shows a polar bear mom, with two pizzlies …. Cute, and a bit darker than mom.

Orange pizzlies …?
In reality most of the pizzlies have a light brown color, so something in between the polar bear and the grizzly bear, as they share the genes. But orange ? Well, in a figurative way, the pizzlies are a kind of "warning sign" or "orange light" that even in the remote wilderness and pristine nature of Alaska and North Canada, global warming is taking its toll…

Genetic research has shown that the occurrence of these hybrids is not new, and occurs since decades. But the point is that there are more and more pizzlies. And hence the number of "normal" polar bears decreases.
In the arctic the consequence of global warming is seen more than in other places in the world. More ice melting, more habitat change. So the pizzlies are an icon of the climate change.
Without the "climat change denial", which we could call "ecological sloth", these changes could be limited.

But it's far from our bed, so why not "laisser faire, laisser passer" ?

With the words of Breughel :
Latin : "Acedia sine fine torpore obruit"
This translates to: "Sloth, with endless lethargy, overcomes"
In short, sloth, far from resting, recuperating and rejuvenating, wasted a man away, renders him impotent and good for nothing.
In old Dutch "Luiheyt bedroeft syn heer, maer arbeyt maeckt hem weer" (the Dutch saying is not exactly the same as the latin saying).

For more information : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BZbodklWa7Q_k1cwv1Efjs9c-aRD_88r/view?usp=drive_link