Our thirst for blood, violence and death has resulted in our own miserable, good for nothing wars, the evisceration of entire environments and the death of hundreds of billions of our fellow living beings. Wherever our feet touch devastation soon seems to follow, transforming fertile and lush land into concrete, asphalt, glass and steel, giving rise to the human ecosystem, the city, with its concrete jungles, brick canopies and steel-enforced canyons. We are a rat race, living amongst streets of trash, making toxic our air and environment, polluting our bodies with the poisons of humanity, assisting in the premature death of hundreds of thousands each year, gutting our immune systems through the housing we build and the furnishings we purchase, subsisting by eating the refuse the corporate world decides to feed us with. Our vehicles saturate the streets, emitting the carbon dioxide that hovers like a dome over our cities, its brownish hue festering over our daily lives, slowly poisoning the unlucky many socially engineered to inhabit the inner city. The stress of dwelling in the human ecosystem is slowly degenerating us all. A plethora of noise emanates from all corners of our habitat, as do putrid odors and the unattractive spectacle of modern American architecture, with its overabundant mini-malls, cookie-cutter housing and franchise businesses.
Our ecosystems continue to grow, swallowing the natural world, erasing from the surface entire forests and savannas and deserts and swamps and marshes and fragile habitats. Our cities are now mega-cities, millions of humans living in closed quarters, our increasing numbers exerting tremendous pressure on the planet. We are now 6.3 billion human beings, 10 billion by 2050, a species bred to consume the bounty of the planet, forced to survive at the expense of Eden. Six point three billion primates, remaining primitive and animalistic, refusing to halt the plague-like destruction of the planet we have systematically been performing since we left the jungles of Africa. With so many people the human race is forced to destroy the planet to survive, replacing forests with concrete jungles, tearing down ecosystems, building human habitats, the globe's fertile lands burned and used to feed the mass of humanity, its animals sacrificed to the dictates of modern man.
The human plague is its own worst enemy, and that of Earth, inevitably condemning itself to a planet on the verge of collapse, its living organisms becoming extinct due to human interference. The self-proclaimed, ego-deluded ruler of the planet is clandestinely killing itself, slowly exploiting the planet beyond repair and rapidly helping to spread its self-extinction through the manipulation of Earth's energies and cycles. Homo sapiens, thinking itself highly intelligent and modern, truly beyond primitive, has instead shown its true colors, now facing an enemy of its own making, a threat it cannot defeat, a challenge seemingly already lost.
Humanity must learn to live in harmony with Earth and its living organisms, understanding the balance and synergy inherent in all of the planet's mechanisms. Our actions must be understood for what they are doing, and a vision of the future must be implemented, choosing to save our children rather than condemning them to a life harsh, dangerous and full of misery. A new human enlightenment must rise from our collective conscious, transforming the way we live and behave, giving birth to an awareness of the interconnectedness of all living energies, whether organic or those mechanisms of the planet. Whether we heed the warnings or alter our destructive path in time to reverse the seemingly irreversible is entirely up to us, of course, yet, given our easily decipherable history and predictable psychology, the odds are not in humanity's favor. History is the greatest witness to our inabilities, errors, demons and weaknesses.
If world history were a 24-hour clock, human existence would only comprise the last couple of minutes, yet in that minimal amount of time we have unleashed devastation upon the lands and creatures of the planet. In those few minutes we have gutted the lands of a once pristine terrain, claiming for ourselves everything and anything, whether living or not, that lies on or below the surface. Eden was given to us, she was our responsibility, as caretakers and guardians, yet we have somehow managed to place her in her last throes. She birthed, nourished and allowed us to thrive, yet our corrosive actions on her surface for millennia is how we have repaid her.
It has only been in the last 300 years, with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, that humanity's acceleration towards complete destruction of both the planet and itself has become easily visible. What man could not accomplish by hand or by beast of burden could be easily performed by machine. The rise of machines greatly increased our devastation of the planet's environment. More damage has been unleashed upon the lands, waterways and atmosphere of Earth in the last 300 years than has been done since our most primitive rat-like ancestors escaped the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
We have become a plague upon Earth, a virus that is sickening the planet. She is now hemorrhaging from years of devastation and utter contempt by humanity to her plight. Unfortunately for us, she has decided to purge the cancerous plague from her surface, cleansing Eden of the species causing her sickness. Yet primitive and unwise we remain, reliant on primitive forms of energy and resources, refusing to use our immense talents for the betterment of all. We now find ourselves impotent to the forces, unleashed by us, which in the coming decades will rid Earth of the malignancy afflicting her natural beauty, thereby returning balance and interconnectedness and normalcy back to a most beautiful Garden of Eden.
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