As The World Teeters
Where Is The Balance Point
For as long as I can remember someone somewhere has been trying to save something. Usually, the commercials that appeared on the television showed starving children or dying animals to appeal to our human emotional response.
“Eat everything on your plate. There are starving children out there, you know.” It was always a country in Africa on the TV. For those of us who were raised by depression era parents this was the litany at every meal because the measurement for poverty was whether you had any food to eat at all.
They spoke in memory of a time when they had nothing
Now, decades later we stand on a planet that hovers on the cusp of irreversible change that we humans have created. Even though we received warnings thirty perhaps forty years ago we continue today as though nothing is at all out of balance.
Greed prevails.
Greenpeace, and other save the world organizations although well-intentioned, missed a point. It wasn’t Earth’s creatures that needed saving. It was us. How arrogant we are as human beings to think that we can live to benefit ourselves while destroying the very host that allows us to live.
