As we plunge headlong....

toward what seems to be the goal of making the promised land into the forsaken land (planet Earth), we should remember that we not only deprive and injure and despoil it for ourselves.



In opposition to the message in the video, for each of those individuals that make up a species....it is too late.

Charles Bowden, in his book titled "Some of the Dead are still Breathing" wrote:

I believe the politics of the right and left matter not to the bird on the wing or the trees dying on the hillsides. (p. 12)

We seem to be unalterably committed to increasing the numbers of human animals...at the expense of every other life form. (image source)

One source estimates the infertility "industry" annually generates about 2 billion dollars in the United States. This is associated only with the small percentage (10 to 15%) of people who have some sort of difficulty reproducing. Contrast this with the annual income  of PETA (considered to be the largest animal rights organization in the world) which is 35 million dollars.

For every dollar PETA has to promote animal rights (and I am aware of the controversies re PETA policies and practices and am ignoring them here for illustrative purposes) almost 60 dollars are spent to make more people by the 10 or 15% that have trouble reproducing.  And rest assured there is most certainly a direct correlation between the number of people and the demise of the rest of nature.

Realize I am only referencing one "industry", think about all the other "industries" whose practices rely on directly or as "collateral damage" the despoiling of the environment or the killing or enslavement of sentient beings or the increase of the number of humans. Logging, animal farming, automobiles, weapons, power generation,  construction and on and on and on. There is no contest from a financial resource perspective.

 Something is seriously wrong.....what the hell are we doing?

On November 16th......

.....I recently wrote about the grotesque fact that there are 10 McDonald's for every tiger living in the wild.

Today, in a story on Yahoo news, it is reported that those tigers will be extinct....in 12 years.

What an achievement for human animals and "civilization". The panoply of our destruction of natural life will soon add the Tiger to its list.

Lesson(s) to be learned? Who knows....maybe....never trust an ape with a tool? (or does that do a disservice to the other apes?)