The human race on self destruct
18-March-2010
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The greedy selfish human race, that’s my gripe.  What gives us the right to destroy our planet and think that it is ours to do with as we wish, so that we don’t care about any other living creature that we share the with.  They have as much right to live on this planet as we do!

A dead fish - the human race on self destruct

We’re living in the crazy times with wildlife habitat destruction, deforestation, over fishing and the mindless killing of intelligent creatures like whales etc.  Some of these animals, fish and plants are already classified as endangered, so what are we playing at here?  Are we going to do tear down everything until there is absolutely nothing left?

Here’s an old proverb that I think sums it all up nicely. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we merely borrow it from our children."

We can do so much to help protect our environment if we just open our eyes and do what is right.  For starters, it should be made law to recycle paper, plastics, cans and anything else that can be reused!  We need trees and so do other animals, birds and insects etc.  More should be done to protect them and recycle what we’ve got instead of consuming natural resources as if they were limitless.

The government should make local recycle points easy for every one to use, and fine people who don’t recycle.

Humans are on self destruct unless we change!

By: Ogrestoes


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If we're in the process of destroying planet earth, which I dont believe we are, then its purely academic now. The human race will over populate "our" environment and consume all "our" natural resources in about 50 years anyway. so screw it. to quote a wise man, of mother earth, "she'll survive us all perfectly well when we're all long burried and dead", "clever monkeys with technology, barely out of the caves and the tree's" "its all vanity"
*idiot  12-Dec-2009 14:45

 
Well done for getting your point across in a non hysterical way....LOL. Your gripe makes you sound like a screaming hippy on a bad trip! If you pull your head out of your bum and stop watching too much news and look out of a window now and again, you might see that this world is FINE!! In the middle of big cities things are not so great but is the planet dying?? No!! This earth will be here a million billion years after the last human has died or evolved itself away. Sure things die, but we humans do not so much compared to the wild(except in the stupidity of war) . Wild animals have a very high mortality rate, in comparison MOST humans die of natural causes. I agree we do pollute waaaay too much.... but..... Get mad at big industry rather than my 83 year old granny because she doesn't reuse her panty diaper. Might as well get mad at cows because they poo too much or beavers because they damn rivers!!!!You are being used as a pawn of the powers that be. They got you so upset on the wrong issues that you are fighting for them against your fellow man/women. How come you think you got all the answers and that everybody else is wrong? It’s a very dangerous position to take.
*Jimmy Wyld  19-Mar-2009 18:21

 
Well done for getting your point across in a non hysterical way....LOL. Your gripe makes you sound like a screaming hippy on a bad trip! If you pull your head out of your bum and stop watching too much news and look out of a window now and again, you might see that this world is FINE!! In the middle of big cities things are not so great but is the planet dying?? No!! This earth will be here a million billion years after the last human has died or evolved itself away. Sure things die, but we humans do not so much compared to the wild(except in the stupidity of war) . Wild animals have a very high mortality rate, in comparison MOST humans die of natural causes. I agree we do pollute waaaay too much.... but..... Get mad at big industry rather than my 83 year old granny because she doesn't reuse her panty diaper. Might as well get mad at cows because they poo too much or beavers because they damn rivers!!!!You are being used as a pawn of the powers that be. They got you so upset on the wrong issues that you are fighting for them against your fellow man/women. How come you think you got all the answers and that everybody else is wrong? It’s a very dangerous position to take.
*Jimmy Wyld  19-Mar-2009 17:40

 
Mando, and what would the punishment be? Not being allowed to replicate? Take away their Darwinian rights? Forced recycling of their organs through execution, quartering and compulsorily transplanting their bodyparts? remainder going to the glueworks?
*The Groaning of the Land  15-Feb-2009 08:46

 
I would like to add the minimum characters before saying...no wucking furries,
*mando  15-Feb-2009 04:35

 
A lot of people are greedy and self interested and "moderate" anything that gets in their way, they dont need to face the consequences most of the time anyway.....I think that there should be a criminal offence of causing significant damage to mother earth or to the detriment of flora and fauna diversity....look what you have and how special it is....no human will ever be able to replicate what was here when they were born, they wipe a lot out before they expire though, never heard of humans being wiped out by animals getting greedy or a giraffe with a gun.
*mando  15-Feb-2009 04:33

 
It's hard to belive that we did this to or plants and animals!!!!!!!!!!
*braceface1197  13-Feb-2009 23:33

 
Save trees by not using toilet paper. Soil your pants instead.
*The Soil Club  11-Feb-2009 07:28

 
Hello I would just like to say that I read your paragraph up there. I am doing a persuasive essay on should it be the law to recycle. I am trying to convince my teacher that it should be the law! I found your paragraph very helpful. thanks!
*No name  19-Nov-2008 00:51

 
those people who are greedy and selfish who dont care about the earth or resources should be put in jail and have less rights that other also we need to control world population there is not enough of food or water all of these are under great pressure due to the population and what about all the unwanted unloved children living in great suffering espically in the third world if you dont have the resources to give a child a good quality of life you should not be allowed to have children and if the child grows up bad and breaks the law he or she should not be allowed to have children we dont want these anti social people having more selfish and greedy children in the world
*timmy  26-Aug-2008 17:13

 
PLEASE READ THIS:
Nature was gifted to us by God when we came on this earth and it served us in many forms. Now, it is our turn to help nature. How can we be so selfish and think only about ourselves? What about those poor animals who are helpless. Man is the creature who is the most intelligent but I think he is the stupidest and stone hearten. He neither thinks for the nature nor his profit. We have to do something before its too late. SAVE NATURE FOR YOUR OWN FUTURE,
*Lovely Samak  31-Jul-2008 10:37

 
Edwin,
Don't get too excited about this word "overpopulation".
This thing called overpopulation is only a recent concept introduced by an English philosopher and I don't remember his name now. But this guy invented this notion and he used statistics too. Later the Nazis used this invention to justify their crimes.

I heard other people mentioning this thing about overpopulation outside the UK too.

To cure this lie, and know that it is a lie you just have to observe it for yourself.

I give some examples:
I travelled from London to Gatwick and noticed that just outside London the place is a desert, you hardly see anyone. Took the car and travelled from London to Glasgow and I could not believe how few people I saw. I come from Sardinia, the island is the size of Wales and there are about 1,600,000 people which are too few for the extension of the land. I went to the South of Italy and travelled for miles and miles and saw animals only. I can imagine that the Sahara desert or the big plains of South America, Africa or China are so immense that if you took all the population of the planet and put it in just one of these plains the people would not be sufficient to fill it.

Convinced?

On this topic I would say that the human race is self destructing because one just does not know who himself is and not just because one is lazy. Before laziness there is not-knowing, and as a consequence there is no responsibility.

Sorry I have been too long.
*SuperBambinoCattivo  28-May-2008 21:28


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