I wasnt going to post anymore on this subject..... but....
Humanity as a race, all humans combined, people as individuals.
The Larry Hagman story.... could have been his heart, but the point is still the same.
Disaster after disaster, look around, read the paper, watch the news, we are still cutting down rain forests even though we know that trees are the major saviour of our atmosphere, and create oxygen.
People who care for cats arent saviors, but it shows we have the capacity to care beyond our species.
Thirteen thousand unwanted cats per year, we breed them and then dump them, a part of our throw away society, Humans need to accept were dumping (not only cats, but polution) on our world and its gotta end one way or another.
Humanity creates what it sees fit, what it wants and not what it needs or what is best.
Humanity may not be evil, but our actions and lack of actions can be interpreted as evil.
Banning deer hunting, we have a similar story here in Australia. When the white man first settled in this country he introduced many animals , rabbits and foxes for hunting, having no natural enemy here they bred profusely. Recently it was decided to drop poison baits to reduce the fox population, within weeks the nearby town had a mouse infestation, native marsupial mice which are a protected species, they got into crops, food stores, got into the wiring in homes and created havoc. Over time foxes have worked themselves into the food chain and nature had settled things, we can send a man to the moon yet we cant keep our environment balanced and healthy.
Money is the root of all evil, we have alternative power sources but a great deal of money is made by drilling oil, too many people are rich because of the stuff and they are the ones with the power to make changes, but why should they want to when it means losing money and power of control.
Let me break it down, we have a smoke problem in our area, from wood fire heaters, natural gas pipelines run past every door, natural gas is a cheap and environmentally friendly alternative, the main cost is in the initial installation. But people cant be bothered, it's easier to drive five minutes (in their fuel guzzling vehicles) down the road into our natural wild bushland where they use their chainsaws to cut down mature native trees for firewood, they dont care they are robbing native animals of their habitat, nor do they care that in a couple of years there will be no trees left in the area, theyll just drive a little further, and a little further. In their mind its cheaper, because they arent paying anything for the wood, but they forget to count the price of fuel for the car and the chainsaw. So in one small act they rob and polute the environment without looking at the consequences. In their eyes they are saving money and thats all that matters. No matter where in the world, thats the way people work, its how we think.
And of course its always easier to do nothing. We wont change anything until our own lives are threatend, as individuals, it may not be that serious, but as a race.....
Indifference to animal testing is a disssassociation from a feeling living creature, if anyone had a pet they loved they could not condone such an act. Compassion is a human trait, animals feel physical and emotional pain, why should compassion be restricted to only humans.
People are inheritantly good but humanity as a whole is not. Humanity is worse than a disease, humanity has choices, we can decide to make changes, a disease cant. Its because we choose not to that makes me wish I wasnt a part of humanity.
