Dear humans,
When will we stop?!?!?! When we have done so much damage to our ecosystem that nothing can survive? We build and build and consume and consume! Humans have become an invasive species, pushing other species out of their homes, killing competitors, polluting the air, water and soil, using up all the natural resources, the list goes on. This causes me sooo much deep deep sadness and pain. I can’t help but bawl my eyes out and ask why? Why do we keep doing what we do when we know the damage it creates? Why do we cause such harm to the world around us and ourselves? I try so very hard to lessen my impact on the environment but I still in one way or another cause damage, and it is so frustrating and depressing. Human activity has increased the extinction rate 100-1,000 times greater than past rates! We are creating the next mass extinction and I feel as if very few care and/or are trying to make a change. We destroy habitat, introduce invasive species, pollute our environment, overpopulate and overexploit. At the rate of consumption and living we are at now we need 1.5 earths to supply us with the amount of resources we use and to be able to absorb all of our waste! We don’t have another half earth everybody! What about that is not clear? If we don’t stop we will use up our resources and trash the planet.
Today after my Environmental Studies class I felt overwhelmed with the amount of devastation humans have caused to this planet. It breaks my heart more than anything in the world. It hit me even more when I tried to go and find a place to be alone and cry but could not find that solitude. All I wanted was to be alone in nature away from anything disturbed or created by humans. Instead of finding that all I found was agriculture, cars, buildings, roads, people, construction where the sound of grinding metal sounded like the screams of pain from the destruction and harm we have bestowed upon the world and its inhabitants, the trail to the forest was even closed, there was no where to go. Not having a place to go undisturbed by humans made me think of all the animals that we have done this too. I felt their pain of having nowhere to go. We have taken their homes, their food, and their lives and have given them fragments of what they once had for them to make do with. These fragments are few and far between and if they are not even enough for me to have a moment of peace in, what makes us think it’s enough for 100s, even 1,000s of species to survive in?
What do we do? How do we make this stop? I don’t want to give up but I feel that I am at a loss of what to do or where to start.
I do know there are lots of things being done to help make a positive impact but it still is not enough. We need to do more, and soon before it’s too late. I ask everyone please, please, please to keep in mind that we are not separate from nature. We are just as much apart of it as anything else in this world. What we do to the world around us affects everything, including us. Please can we all do our part to treat this planet better, to be conscious of our choices and what we support, to try and create change for a more livable future for our selves and everything else on this planet? We are all in this together and every single bit of our ecosystem depends on every other single bit.
Today after my Environmental Studies class I felt overwhelmed with the amount of devastation humans have caused to this planet. It breaks my heart more than anything in the world. It hit me even more when I tried to go and find a place to be alone and cry but could not find that solitude. All I wanted was to be alone in nature away from anything disturbed or created by humans. Instead of finding that all I found was agriculture, cars, buildings, roads, people, construction where the sound of grinding metal sounded like the screams of pain from the destruction and harm we have bestowed upon the world and its inhabitants, the trail to the forest was even closed, there was no where to go. Not having a place to go undisturbed by humans made me think of all the animals that we have done this too. I felt their pain of having nowhere to go. We have taken their homes, their food, and their lives and have given them fragments of what they once had for them to make do with. These fragments are few and far between and if they are not even enough for me to have a moment of peace in, what makes us think it’s enough for 100s, even 1,000s of species to survive in?
What do we do? How do we make this stop? I don’t want to give up but I feel that I am at a loss of what to do or where to start.
I do know there are lots of things being done to help make a positive impact but it still is not enough. We need to do more, and soon before it’s too late. I ask everyone please, please, please to keep in mind that we are not separate from nature. We are just as much apart of it as anything else in this world. What we do to the world around us affects everything, including us. Please can we all do our part to treat this planet better, to be conscious of our choices and what we support, to try and create change for a more livable future for our selves and everything else on this planet? We are all in this together and every single bit of our ecosystem depends on every other single bit.
Love always,
A lugubrious human
A lugubrious human
