Would you do this to your mother?
Catchy title for a post, isn't it.
For the longest time, I have believed that this planet earth on which we dwell has been a mother to all things living and non-living. It sure fits the definition of a mother doesn't it? All the things we need to continue our existence and so on are provided to us by this planet. Each molecule of our bodies, each electron that courses through our neurons as thoughts, as impulses, everything is from this planet. The fact that we exist at all as sentient beings, is thanks in large part to this planet. Is it not the mother of all we survey then?
It saddens me everyday and every moment to think how we treat this mother. How selfish are we, as sentient and intelligent beings - how short-sighted and rapacious. Every day I am ashamed of all we do, or rather, all we undo, in our never-ending quest to have a better life. A better life, of course, as defined in strictly materialistic terms.
There is a school of thought which believes human beings as being the cancer which is eating away at this planet's life system. I tend to agree, even though I never met anybody who studied at that school. Fits into the definition of a cancer perfectly.
All the animals we selfishly slaughter for their skins, their flesh, their bones, their horns, their teeth, their heads or any other parts of their bodies are just one example.
All the trees, young and old, which we chop down for making houses, furniture, paper etc are another example of our selfishness.
All the species we have made extinct and all the species we continue to make extinct everyday, all the forests we continue to destroy - need I go on?
I for one, have an attachment to the way things were... the way my world was. And I hate to see what's happening to it now.
How stupid and greedy be these humans who continue to rape this planet on which they were born and which gave them everything they have! How selfish is this human race!
Would you do this to your mother? Eat her away bit by bit for satisfying your selfish wants?
It's time to do something. The time is now. Your mother needs you to act for her well-being NOW. Are you man/woman enough to do it?
For the longest time, I have believed that this planet earth on which we dwell has been a mother to all things living and non-living. It sure fits the definition of a mother doesn't it? All the things we need to continue our existence and so on are provided to us by this planet. Each molecule of our bodies, each electron that courses through our neurons as thoughts, as impulses, everything is from this planet. The fact that we exist at all as sentient beings, is thanks in large part to this planet. Is it not the mother of all we survey then?
It saddens me everyday and every moment to think how we treat this mother. How selfish are we, as sentient and intelligent beings - how short-sighted and rapacious. Every day I am ashamed of all we do, or rather, all we undo, in our never-ending quest to have a better life. A better life, of course, as defined in strictly materialistic terms.
There is a school of thought which believes human beings as being the cancer which is eating away at this planet's life system. I tend to agree, even though I never met anybody who studied at that school. Fits into the definition of a cancer perfectly.
All the animals we selfishly slaughter for their skins, their flesh, their bones, their horns, their teeth, their heads or any other parts of their bodies are just one example.
All the trees, young and old, which we chop down for making houses, furniture, paper etc are another example of our selfishness.
All the species we have made extinct and all the species we continue to make extinct everyday, all the forests we continue to destroy - need I go on?
I for one, have an attachment to the way things were... the way my world was. And I hate to see what's happening to it now.
How stupid and greedy be these humans who continue to rape this planet on which they were born and which gave them everything they have! How selfish is this human race!
Would you do this to your mother? Eat her away bit by bit for satisfying your selfish wants?
It's time to do something. The time is now. Your mother needs you to act for her well-being NOW. Are you man/woman enough to do it?
posted by the grim sleeper at 11:23 PM
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