Humans, animals, the environment and health
What's up?
The planet we call Earth was once extremely hot. About 500 million years ago plants evolved, using carbon, the basis of all life, and releasing oxygen. Some cooling occurred. Species came and species went. Tectonic plates shifted. An age of ice happened. Animals came from the sea and lived on the land.
Humans evolved, multiplied and dominated the planet. They made materials that didn’t decompose and tonnes of space junk. They slaughtered their relatives in the seas, who were their equals in intelligence, for eating fish, and then themselves almost emptied the oceans. They polluted with heavy metals from the ocean floor to the highest mountain. Billions of bison, wild horses, prairie dogs and wild cats were slaughtered in order to build railways and homes. A living hell was created for billions of animals in farms known as ‘factories’. Land and rivers were taken from indigenous peoples to grow grass-fed meat and to produce hydroelectric power. Many plant, insect and animal species became extinct. Factories filled cities with smog. The most vulnerable in societies, or nations that were slower to industrialise were made to do the worst jobs in trawler fishing, slaughter houses, meat packing and sweat shops.
Humans became terrified of death and injected animals and each other, including day old babies, with vaccines that caused autism and sometimes killed. Societies of chronically lonely, obese and depressed people developed. The drugs they developed by torturing millions of animals made them even sicker. The soil, pollinators and the nutrition in food was destroyed with monoculture, GMOs and pesticides. The plants, animals, fish and humans become sicker and sicker and had to be treated with more and more chemicals just to be kept alive.
In our present day we must now adapt to the change in climate whether we are causing it or not. All the hot air around ‘global warming’ is surely heating things up and not doing anything to address this or the fact that we have wreaked destruction and pain on every single other species, apart from possibly our pets, and filled the world with plastic, pollutants and lakes of shit.
I think we also know that living as we are at present, out of harmony with the Earth and all its other inhabitants, is not something we want to ‘sustain’ even if we could.
What I think we need to do is to still all the chatter and debate and to listen to what our own hearts and souls are telling us. That is where there is hope.
Bravo. Excellent piece. Science began as observing the natural world around us. Then we codefied, structured these observations so much, that we didnt realise that we had actually stopped looking at that which we were supposed to be studying. So then we began to make up the "science" using technology.
We can't bear our reality, so we look away like little children in the dark. Thankfully, there are many that are growing up, fast and painfully, but growing.
#keepdoingwhatyoudo
My soul tells me that the Davos "elites" should be hanged from bridges.
Finding room alongside the politicians, media, hollywood and medical experts will be tricky though.