We Are Destroying Our Neighbours!
Posted: Sunday, April 10, 2011
by Terrence Aubrey
Terrence
During the last 40 years, we mankind have lost 60% of our lions, zebras and giraffes. When added to the already known rapid decline in numbers of the great ape and Gorilla it paints a very bleak picture of the care, or lack of care we give to the wildlife with whom we share this planet.
These animals are now contained within the huge national parks such as Serengeti, Tanzania and masai masai in Kenya. In the east of Africa the situation is even more depressing with losses of up to 85% of these animals of the jungle.
Surely the wealthier countries of the first world should be doing more financially to help in the preservation of these noble animals in what are effectively the last huge inhabitable areas of wilderness on planet earth. Practically all the wild mammals of Europe and the Americas have been eradicated, so this could well be our last chance.
Can you imagine a world without these splendid creatures? Are we the human race completely incapable of living in any harmonious way with any of the millions of life forms that inhabited planet earth? Will we in time sterilise planet earth, remove, or destroy all wildlife? It is a very scary thought.
Not only are we danger of destroying completely the natural habitat of these magnificent animals, we are in danger of making life on earth very difficult,or even worse unihabital for ourselves also!
The fact is that our incapability of living harmoniously with mother nature in all its forms is a very sad indictment of the evolution of the human race. We like to think of ourselves as intelligent, far superior to mere beasts and animals, but wait one moment…..
What actually is our definition of intelligence? Does the Elephant pose any threat to nature, or mother Earth? Clearly the answer is no and yet we, the human race do? Is this not strange and does it not imply that our definition of intelligence is at best ill conceived, or at worst hopelessly in error?
Quite clearly our definition of intelligence is hopelessly partial, biased and incomplete and does not take in the whole and complete picture of what we are merely part of, it is one dimensional.
Ok lets try a hypothectical test, let’s take a few examples of individuals alive today regarded as intelligent, drawing names from a hat I have here, Mrs Hilary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Vladamir Putin, The Pope, Bill Gates and the Google guys and just to be really fair, the big boss at Greenpeace and Al Gore, a fairly random list agreed? If I have left out anyone please include them.
Ok here is the question:- What is the purpose of your existentence, why are you right here, right now? Sadly I do not have the personal email addresses of our random selection of “Homo Sapiens”, but what do you think the answers will be? Come on, just take a guess…..These are currently the leaders of men, so they should have at least some idea of where we are going, both collectively and individually right?
Do you think the answers will include:- I am here to understand the very purpose of my existence and why I am alive? Or, I am here to truly understand the true magnificence of nature, the delicate balance and inter dependency of nature, ourselves and the still uncounted miriad forms of life that we share our home, our planet with? No? Ok let’s try this one, I am here to understand the master, the creator of the magnificence that is creation and to understand the part I must play within this magnificent creation and to do everything in my power to protect and nuture this magnificence for future generations.
I do not wish to seem over pessimistic, but I do not think any of these “Hypothectical answers are going to be forthcoming, but just one moment here. These guys are the leaders of men and if they have no clue about our reality, what hope do we have, the mere followers?
Come on, its time to wake up, waking up after we have fallen off the cliff is, well, a little late really, don't you think?. Terrence Aubrey. Confidential Matchmakers.
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Top-level comments on this article: (7 total)A good message you send here Terrence, we must preserve our wildlife.Thank you David.
Great job Terrence. I admire your passion. And I agree. We are supposed to care for our animals not destroy them. But again, it always boils down to the greedy nature of many human beings. Too sad - hunting was meant to feed families not for a trophy or black market millions! Blessings to you! TeresaThanks Teresa, Unfortunately our carelessness regarding wildlife carries over to our carelessness of Mother Nature and I fear that there will be a price to pay.
60%! That's awful. I don't think we're that advanced really, and we do only seem able to learn when we've fallen off the cliff.Let's hope the tides in!
I was here to practice what i thought is true, but there was a great difference between my perception and some other people. i was the Zebra in the animal Farm equal, but not more equal. A Zebra is admirable like other non homo-Stephine he do what he think is true, he is not as smart as G... or B.. but he do what he think is true. what a Zebra think as true is eating Grass and doing his own business, but he eats as he needs, and is not eager to have all the land for himself(maybe he don't know there is another Grass besides what he eats right now :) he is fool after all ).
but human beens talk of freedom and do against it. it is a matter of intelligence i guess, when you get intelligent you are able to conceptualize reality, conceptualization boarder from lie is not known for me myself. what is the different of playing game and lying? what is the difference of life and game?
its obviously a matter if you think.
Yosef IranmanNice thoughts Yosef. If tomorrow, by some miracle we could all awaken as the Zebra, what a beautiful world it would be. Thank you for sharing your wise perception.
Hi Terence.I decided some time ago that the purpose of my existence was to increase the total happiness in the universe. Grand task, hunh? :) I do that by pursuing personal happiness and endeavoring to help others (homo sapiens and non-homo sapiens alike) find happiness.So ... what makes me happy? Making space in my life for all the little critters to flourish as best they can. It's small things ... like putting up a basket on a small ledge outside our front door that the doves kept trying and failing to nest on because it was too small. Not filling in the excavation under our concrete driveway that the bunnies use for housing. Letting a family of gophers have their way with our backyard despite the mounds of dirt on top of our landscaping rock.We've taken over so much of the habitat of the wild things that it seems only fair that when they want some of mine, I let them have it.For people, I try to find out what they need most and help them to get it. And I'm NOT talking physical possessions. Sometimes it just a little help with a recurring chore for which they have little time but I do. Or it's a big smile for the person I'm passing in the grocery store who has sad eyes.I've often felt as you do about how we are treating our Earth. I've also often said that Nature would be better off without humans mucking it up. But here we are and we need to do better.Great article!Hugs,DianneWhat a really nice comment Dianne, it glows with warmth, love, kindness and a deep understanding......Quite a while back I wrote about the Scientific community, their huge strides into to the future and their great ability to, for example "split the atom" before considering that it might be a good idea to know how to put it back together again, before splitting it!
Do you mind if I ask them to clone you? I think a few thousand Dianne Lehmanns scattered around the planet right now could be a helpful thing.
Maybe we are getting very close to the time when enough people, with eyes wide open and the intelligence to see the reality, rather than the superficiality of our endevours can have a voice that is loud enough to be heard by the ones that wish to be the leaders of men and just maybe, it will be in time!
Great comment Dianne,
Hugs back, TerrenceI think we are getting close. I encounter more and more people who feel as you and I do. It is very encouraging! Leaders of people will have to start listening. But will it be in time ... I don't know. I THINK it will. Nature is a huge force ... the earth wants to survive with all of its living things in tow. I believe it is bigger than any force that homo sapiens can bring to bear. My worry is that it just might kill us off in the process. Sounds a bit wacko put like that, but there you are.If being a little "Wacko" is what it takes, great, I,ll buy the T shirt......
This is a truth. But there are others such as abortion which takes the life of humans who cannot defend themselves. These animals have a fighting chance to escape the hunter. But what about that baby who through no fault of its own was conceived? Just to add something more to think about.
Yes I agree. A balanced world lives in balance with all life on it. But we are not living in freedom were living in some stupid system. This of course makes us all stupid in the course of evolution. Money takes from us, blinding us. Freedom gives and we see. Money enslaves us all but it's Truth that sets us free. Great job!!!
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