The End Of Living?
Chief Seattle once ended his speech: “The end of living and the beginning of survival”. What did he mean by that?
When the President of the UK offered to buy land from the red Indians, Chief Seattle gave them such a warning. What was his motive?
He meant that if humans kept going on the path they are on now, they will one day destroy themselves along with their entire family. Their flora sisters will wilt, fauna brothers go extinct, and Mother Earth will no longer be the home they once had.
I must admit that I agree with this quote. Should we continue to take advantage of the one who gave us life, it will also bring upon our destruction. For centuries, generations even, we’ve been draining Earth of its resources and we still do. We mine her ores for glamour and manufacture, trees cut down to make the sheets we write on, her children, the beasts killed for sport. She let us use her treasures, and in return? We cast devastation onto her very being. Plastic dumped into river and oceans, contaminating the once sweet spirit of water. Carbon monoxide everywhere that blinds you and chokes you slowly. Overly large amounts of greenhouse gases destroying her shield from the sun, setting her body on fire.
"The end of living and the beginning of survival", if we end all life on earth but ourselves, we will eventually struggle to survive the now sterile world. However hard we try to go beyond, we will too die off without the support of our ecosystem.
There was once a video game quote: "You think you are above the consequences?" With our foolishness and ungratefulness, we humans do think we are invincible, and therefore above consequences, however, as we continue to pollute our Mother Earth, we also set ourselves a ticking time bomb.
However great we humans think we are, if we don't wake up soon, it is only a matter of time until we perish along with our home.
Chief Seattle once ended his speech: “The end of living and the beginning of survival”. What did he mean by that?
When the President of the UK offered to buy land from the red Indians, Chief Seattle gave them such a warning. What was his motive?
He meant that if humans kept going on the path they are on now, they will one day destroy themselves along with their entire family. Their flora sisters will wilt, fauna brothers go extinct, and Mother Earth will no longer be the home they once had.
I must admit that I agree with this quote. Should we continue to take advantage of the one who gave us life, it will also bring upon our destruction. For centuries, generations even, we’ve been draining Earth of its resources and we still do. We mine her ores for glamour and manufacture, trees cut down to make the sheets we write on, her children, the beasts killed for sport. She let us use her treasures, and in return? We cast devastation onto her very being. Plastic dumped into river and oceans, contaminating the once sweet spirit of water. Carbon monoxide everywhere that blinds you and chokes you slowly. Overly large amounts of greenhouse gases destroying her shield from the sun, setting her body on fire.
"The end of living and the beginning of survival", if we end all life on earth but ourselves, we will eventually struggle to survive the now sterile world. However hard we try to go beyond, we will too die off without the support of our ecosystem.
There was once a video game quote: "You think you are above the consequences?" With our foolishness and ungratefulness, we humans do think we are invincible, and therefore above consequences, however, as we continue to pollute our Mother Earth, we also set ourselves a ticking time bomb.
However great we humans think we are, if we don't wake up soon, it is only a matter of time until we perish along with our home.
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