PB wrote:The video's true, but it's also very true that humans and our lifestyle will NEVER change.
So, agree with the video, cry a bit, lament the animals... but it won't achieve anything.
At the end of the day we're always going to be cutting down trees, dumping in the ocean,
and so on. It's just the human way of life. Nothing can be done to change it unless we all
become cave men again.
Things are already changing... at least a little bit. We know now the humans are the problem.
200 years ago, nobody was thinking about air pollution, and very few were thinking about
extermination of species, made by humans.
We know about it today, we are aware that we are the problem, and we would like to change.
One of the biggest problem is the explosion in mass of humans. 2... 4... 6... 7... 8... 9 Billions.
And the second problem is poverty. There are countries where they still burn waste and don't
have garbage collection and recycling. Countries, where we have no easy access to food and
clean drinking water.
Of course this 7+ billion humans need also food. 3 to 5 times every day, so billions of cows,
pigs, and chickens need to die for us. Forests get cut down to make new farm land, and this is also
a problem of the mass of humans alive.
Generally I think we are already in a transition stage, but it looks like it is not going fast enough.
If you travel a bit around the world, you will be shocked how 'backwards' and poor many non-western countries
are, so there are still many things to do.
We already built gene banks of other animals, we are in the transition to green energy. It is at least a start,
but now that we are aware of the problem, that's just not enough. The transition goes way too slow, and
humans still prefer to make war against other countries and other humans, not seeing the big picture.
We have world-wide climate conferences. Generally a good sign, but profit & economy almost always
stay above everything else. That's the reason the USA, one of the most economically successful and profitable
countries in our world, always slow down any climate change agreements.
About the consciousness of the other animals, I always wonder why humans today think
we are something special. We are one of many species, so we are animals, too.
The problem is we treat other animals as something below us, as if the species of homo sapiens
is above all other species. The destroyers of the world think they are better!
As we know, we are the result of a very small population (Adam & Eve
), some hundred thousand years ago.
It is possible humans got a mental disorder because of the limited gene pool.
7,000,000,000+ people are descendants of approximately 7,000 to 10,000 humans in the stone age,
probably coming from Africa and maybe Asia.
I am very interested in new discoveries about the universe and human history, and I always
wonder that scientist are looking for life in the big universe out there, and they are all overseeing
that the whole universe actually IS life. Every planet and every star is born, has a life, and dies.
Everything is change and is alive, but at the small time scale we look at things, we only see billion
of dead rocks circling around, forming solar systems and galaxies by accident.
In our small lifetime we experience some earth quakes and tsunamis, but nonetheless we think generally
our earth is just a rock circling around the sun.
The whole earth seems like a living being, an always changing and very alive species. Our mother earth
was born, has a life, and will die for sure. On her surface live other species, like bacteria live on and within ourselves.
Like bacteria within our gastrointestinal passage, like all cells of our human bodies.
There is at least some hope, and sciences, education, and enlightenment force the changes that are required to be done.
At the end it is our very own decision. We are only one of billions of species out there, and only one of many
billion planets with " extraordinary" animals like humans. It doesn't hurt the universe if one planet and some
millions of species go extinct...
