Earth is a planet that’s so much more than just a planet. It’s our home. The only planet we currently know that sustains life. It’s home to all plants and trees and fungi, to all birds and fish and animals, to all forms of life, and that includes us.
All animals – although inferior to humans – have equal rights to this planet. But many of us earthlings have misused the power of being socially and mentally superior, and have assumed that the earth is “only our land”.
Some not all of us earthlings have turned themselves cold-hearted and stony-minded, working only for themselves and forgetting that every animal and plant has the right to utilize the earth’s resources. Becoming deaf to our earth’s pleading cries. Forgetting that they are endangering already endangered species. Forgetting that it is we who require the earth and not the inverse.
Our earth gives, never takes. Some of the earthlings take, never give. The earth is a vast, diverse and beautiful place. We need it. We can’t say “It doesn’t matter” and destroy it.
We go against the laws nature has set. Forests are vanishing, and ice caps and glaciers are vanishing, indirectly and directly, starting the end of life on Earth.
We should be proud of our planet, not destroy it. Why do animals have to pay for the fault of humans? Why do other humans have to pay the price for the fault of the few, heartless earthlings?
Think about this: For how long can we blind ourselves from the bitter truth: we can shift houses, shift from city to city, even country to country, but we don’t have a second planet to shift to.
December, 2024
