Racing to our Extinction

Discovery & National Geographic are a couple of my favourite satellite tv channels.

They put on some awesome programming ( I am not referring to their reality garbage). Sadly a lot of recent shows have been highlighting the dire straights a lot of our planet’s creatures are facing.

Did you know we are down to only  approximately 3000 tigers left in the wild.

That Passenger Pigeons are extinct. Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.

Also the Western Black rhino is officially extinct and the Northern White and the Javan rhinos will follow unless something is done, conservationists warn.

The list of extinctions seems to be endless and a lot of the animals that have joined that list have done so as a result of human actions. Humans are wiping out natural habitats at an alarming rate and they are doing this with no consideration for the damage to their planet that is being done.

One thing is very true. Earth is a finely balanced environment where everything seems to have a vital part in that balancing act. Yet humans seem to give very little consideration to these extinctions.

As the dominant race on this planet we are like the Timelords gifted these heavenly lands and oceans to protect, to cherish, to keep in a state that ensures the balance continues. Sadly we are not doing this. We are allowing the deaths and the the extinctions of these amazing creatures without truely understanding the long term effects to our planet and it’s environment.

Instead of being protective timelords we are more like a plague on this delicately balanced world.

The questions are, how many more extinctions of amazing, awesome  and unique creatures will we allow before we realise we are destroying our own home? When will we stop to think of the possible and probable consequences of this barbarous action of genicide on our natural environment?

Our destiny is in our own hands and if we do not see it soon are we merely hastening our own race to our very own extinction?Globe - Racing to our Extinction

 

 

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