Humanity, is guilty of the gross neglect of their own views and beliefs. We believe in good things as long as they happen to us. We are responsible for the mass genocide and extinction of millions of organisms from earth. Nothing is safe in our conquest for power and self preservation, we'll pillage and scatter anything that stands on our warpath.
The superior Aryan race, perfect in every way possible, tasked with the duty to clean up the world of all vermin. The Nazis were a plague that in all reason could fill up a book to justify their acts, (matter of fact, they did{Hitler's Mein Kampf}).We all look at human life as a sacred commodity to be protected and respected. We frown whenever we hear stories of terrorism, abuse, neglect and so on. Why would someone do such a thing.
Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970, leading the world’s foremost experts to warn that the annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilization. We have managed in under 40 years to deplete 60% of the wildlife on earth. The new estimate of the massacre of wildlife is made in a major report produced by WWF and involving 59 scientists from across the globe. It finds that the vast and growing consumption of food and resources by the global population is destroying the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society ultimately depends for clean air, water and everything else.
The biggest cause of wildlife losses is the destruction of natural habitats, much of it to create farmland. Three-quarters of all land on Earth is now significantly affected by human activities. Killing for food is the next biggest cause – 300 mammal species are being eaten into extinction – while the oceans are massively over fished, with more than half now being industrially fished.
It all seems like humans are getting the better end of this deal, if ever there was a deal, but the problem we caused is now coming back to bite us. At the rate we are evolving we are depleting valuable resources along with the health of the earth. The polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate of 9% per decade. The thickness of the Arctic Ice has decreased by 40% since the 1960s. (NASA), putting the global sea level at an alarming rise.
It may be too late for humanity to redeem itself but we can delay the effect by changing the way we treat the earth and remembering that we share it with about 8.7 million other species. We do not need an extra farm or a new oil rig, what we need is another tree, less plastic, solar energy and more nature reserves. We are capable of better, the only problem is that not enough people are willing to change.
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