Humankind - what a thing to behold.
Despite all our achievements, all our abilities, all our potential, we have evolved into a species for which one of our
strongest traits is our willingness to kill each other.
We have perfected the ability to rape the planets resources
and push every other living thing on the planet to the limits of their
existence. and when we aren't doing that, our causal approach to dumping
our toxic filth into our oceans or skies and back into the food-chain poisons
the Earth.
Is there any other species quite like us? Our selfish disregard for every living thing
that we know to exist in the entire universe is rather tragic. Because of we
succeed where constant wars fail and we kill off enough key species, we will
ultimately be committing suicide. We cannot naively think we can patch-fix the
holes we create on our ecosystem that mother nature has taken millennia to
perfect.
The dinosaurs had the right approach. We take the term 'dinosaur' and label our parents with it to mean someone set in their ways - plodding and slow to change - but the fact is, the dinosaurs were around for over 165 million years and they are often rated as being the most successful species on the planet. Perhaps their success was their small brains and thus, lack of any Einsteinian intelligence. They weren't fussed about world domination. They just got on with life and let Mother Nature decide the variables. This simplistic approach would likely still be going on now and our ancestors would be no more than furry shrews in the ground if it hadn't been for a series of catacysmic events to come together in a perfect storm and wipe them out.
We talk about possible
pandemics sweeping the globe when in fact it is us that are the disease. The
simple truth is that this planet would likely be a wonderful harmonious
ecosystem if we could just remove ourselves from the equation.
Perhaps what we need is a more superior species or
omnipotent being to decide enough is enough and for the good of Earth and every
other living thing on the planet, it's time to come on down and sort us out.
Dear Lord - perhaps the time has come to make another
appearance.
Hi Steve. Interesting post. You always were a sensitive soul possessing a real gift with words. Seems that being a father has tuned you in as it were to the dire straits that this place we call home finds itself in. As a father myself, I know I worry about the future all the time. Being an open-minded individual, I know you'll find the time to read this interesting article when you can. I'm not 'preaching' to you, simply putting forward a different point-of-view.
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Hi Dakka - good to hear from you. glad you share my concerns - makes you wonder what state we are leaving the world in for our children to inherit. Somehting that can only be realised I beleive, when you have children and you begin to care for their well-being, including that future of theirs where we wwill be gone but they carry the burden of what we left.
DeleteI think in generations to come (if indeed the human race survives that long) people will look back at this time as a critical point in time - we make history as we speak ! lets make it one to remeber for the right reasons. If we all contribute a little, the change can be massive.