Nature – A Myth?
As the Earth warms at an unprecedented rate, life as we know it – the polar bears that roam the frozen tundras of the Arctic, the Amazon rainforest that breathes life, the coral reefs with a labyrinth of species – will be a faded memory.
In the last century, society’s avarice has murdered forests and other ecosystems, polluted nature’s circulation, and driven living beings to the precipice of extinction. Ecosystems are living, breathing organisms, and are currently on life-support. In recent years, habitats across the globe have become jeopardized by the fossil fuel industry’s encroaching influence. Extracting oil wreaks catastrophic havoc upon the ecosystems exploited for such use, requiring trees to be cut down and soil to be drilled into. Oil spills poison bodies of water, nature’s bloodstream, murdering aquatic organisms and tilting the innate balance of nature.
Humanity must learn about our belonging to nature, and the ways we must change in order to protect the environment from further destruction. Mankind has wreaked cataclysmic havoc upon the earth, and we only have less than a decade to reverse global warming before it’s too late.
Humanity’s avarice has stolen animals’ rightful habitats, it’s pervasive egocentrism failing to consider its collateral damage of their warfare against nature. The rise of exponential industrialization has trespassed upon fragile yet invaluable ecosystems, the outcome of billions upon billions of years of evolution. Without a second thought, mankind has excavated the environment to fuel industrialized society with fossil fuels at the expense of irreversible species extinction. When the planet re-evolves, after the plagues, the bombs, the wipeouts, the polar bears will roam the Arctic tundras once more. The sixth mass extinction is predicted to wipe out all species on earth as a result of devastating human activities. Humanity is a self-destructive species that will ultimately be the culprit to their own demise. The earth will continue to re-evolve itself millennia after humans have wiped themselves out, and perhaps then endangered species can thrive without human interference. Mankind is the culprit behind habitat loss and species extinction.
The impact of industrialization is irreversible. It cannot be stressed enough the gravity of the ecological catastrophe that is occurring on earth because of mankind’s unending greed. Endangered species will be a distant memory in the collective unconscious. One cannot eat money, and once all the habitats sold for a useless piece of paper are gone forevermore, there is no winding back the clock. Mankind will sit upon its throne of materialistic wealth tarnished with the blood of extinct species, the ultimate cost of owning everything. The world will be a concrete jungle devoid of life, and only then will it dawn upon humanity what they have done.
Climate change is impacting the biosphere of the earth. The earth is “one planet”. Every species on the planet is interconnected to one another. If the balance of the ecosystem is tilted, it will impact every species on the earth. Like the tree of life, all living beings branch out from the same tree. The consequences of destructive human activities will reverberate across the levels of the ecosystem, which all species on earth are intrinsically part of. One day, polar bears and other critically endangered species will become mere fairytales, long-extinct without a trace. Endangered species, such as the dwindling polar bear, will become a mythological creature that roams only in the realm of fantasy and make-believe, akin to unicorns and dragons.
The polar bear and other critically endangered species will haunt the inner conscience of humanity forevermore. The cosmos and heavenly bodies will be the final frontier for endangered species on earth. The polar bear will ascend to the top of the mountains and beyond the cosmos. The Great Polar Bear Constellation will be an embodiment of the extinct polar bear; how polar bears and other endangered species will one day be reminiscent of ghosts. The only polar bear that will be seen on the planet earth will be in the sky, a cluster of stars reminding mankind of its genocide on nature. The eventual habitat of endangered species on the precipice of extinction will be the heavens and cosmos above. From afar, the twinkling eyes, the stars far across the universe, only see the beauty of this blue planet; the stars only see the earth from the outside, a blue orb swirling with white clouds. Like the stars, the polar bear and other endangered creatures want to become a constellation to see the earth from afar, not up close. Endangered species such as the polar bear will be ghosts of the past.