Wednesday, May 5, 2010

ENDGAME - No, this is not about a computer game.

All species on this planet were created together, evolved together and shared the planet together. Man, however overtook the rest of the species and has, over the past few millennia, created the concepts of stories, figments of one’s imagination, created a collection of sounds which if arranged rhythmically enough, can be quite pleasing to one, and most recently, even begun writing blogs. We are, in my opinion, in the greatest era of man’s life where our history seems crystal clear as do aspects of our future. The sad truth however lies, in the fact that while man has evolved and emerged the true master of the planet, we have decimated it completely. Man is the only species that has only taken from the Earth without adequately offering anything in return.

It might have occurred to a few of you that I’m just prancing around, ranting about all sorts of stuff above without taking any of you to any logical conclusions. Well, my point is that we’re at the pinnacle of our civilisation and as the old world orders around us are all slowly gathering  to fall and appoint new world superpowers, there may not be much of the world left at this rate. Take a look at the temperatures skyrocketing the way they have over the last two years all over the world. This is indeed, the beginning of the end of life as we know it for if we don’t heed this last chance to save the Earth and even begin to try fixing all the damage we’ve done, we might as well resign ourselves to living in a man made concrete-tech world where we use holograms to project images of the planet as it once was and we may have to seek comfort from the fact that though we’ve destroyed our planet, we at least created the technology to simulate an artificial one.

1 comment:

  1. Frankly, I find claims like 'Man has overtaken the rest of the species' ridiculous. How do you know? Maybe the elephants are living a life where they think they are the superior species on earth and we only serve decoration purposes in their minds. In the ant's world, we are probably large masses that have a tendency to move randomly and that to them is probably how the world is built.

    The earth has a very 'Que Sera Sera' attitude towards it's existence. I don't think it really worries about it's destruction. Something else will take our place.

    We really don't worry about saving the Earth, we only worry about saving ourselves. Seriously, do you think we could save the world if we wanted to? (Earth snorts in derision)

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