What are we doing?

One of the things that upsets me most about this world is our treatment of it. One thing about our generation is that we don't care. Very little care is given to the environment around us; the earth we live on and the people on it. We are the one's to blame for the worlds current situation, as are the generations before, but we aren't even trying to help the matter. But we, as people, don't want the blame to be on us. We like to blame others. Maybe the world we live in now isn't even our fault, but barely anybody is doing anything to try change it. We like to sit back and say 'change will come' but why not start now?? Our world is deteriorating and it will more than likely turn into the vision of Earth that was on Wall-E but there'll be no turning back from it. Once it is gone, it's gone. You can't un-destroy something. You can only stop yourself from destroying it.

As a major tree-hugger and lover of the environment and the natural world, I get genuinely upset that animals and people in other countries in regions such as Africa or the Antarctic are suffering from problems that we, us snotty-nosed, first world, materialistic monsters have caused. WE are the ones that drive cars that omit harmful gases, WE are the ones that burn fossil fuels that burn holes in the ozone layer, WE are the ones that cut down acres of trees that destroy many animals homes, WE are the blame for all of this! We have become so concerned with our own wealth, our own wants that we don't even think about anybody elses needs! WE pollute, WE litter, WE are to blame.

I just watched a short video set in the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. On that island live thousands of birds. One man photographed and recorded the dying and dead birds on that island. The dead birds bodies were decayed. And do you know what was in their stomachs!? Bottle caps, lighters, plastic netting, the list goes on! The birds died from these as they were stuck in their stomachs. And don't even dare to say something stupid and ignorant like "stupid birds, they should know that it's not food" or "obviously you can't eat plastic." The birds aren't the stupid ones, we are. How dare we allow our rubbish to flow into the oceans, polluting them and the life in it? How dare we kill innocent life more than 2000 miles away? This just goes to show that what we do affects everything around us.

DISGUSTING, isn't it?? All thanks to our actions, of course.

Africa is experiencing drought upon drought throughout the Savannah. The worlds rainforest's are being cut down and destroyed. Floods are more common, hurricanes are almost regular occurrences, massive glaciers of ice are collapsing day after day. Lives of animals are being jeopardised and it hurts me and disgusts me. We don't see most of the effects that we are causing, but they are still there nonetheless.

Just why. Why why why?? Why can't we walk the extra mile? Literally! Just walk or cycle the extra mile to the shop isn't of driving? Why can't we put our rubbish in the bin? Why do people find it such a daunting task to recycle? Or spend five minutes less in the shower? Buy Eco-friendly produce, grow your own vegetables, plant a tree here and there, do something and don't just sit there! The Earth is so beautiful and full of so many beautiful things, why would you want to destroy it?

Species of animals are becoming extinct, wiped clean off of the earth. The Bali Tiger of Asia was extinct as a result of poaching (don't even get me started on that, that's another thing that turns my stomach in anger). The Javan Tiger, more or less extinct for the same reason. Species of mammals upon birds upon marine life, wiped from the Earth.

All in all, the human race, no matter how significant and astounding we think we are, we are vermin and we are the cause of the world's mess. And you know it.

"Only when the last tree has been cut down,
only when the last fish has been caught,
only when the last stream has been poisoned,
only then will you find you cannot eat money."

~ Cree Indian Prophecy