We should not feel guilty about being human. Humans and animals have equality and if anything, it is only our ego, pride and self-worth that creates the loathing we have for our own species. Our survival as a species won’t come about because of politicians or scientists, it will be the inherent wisdom of people who continue to live life on the margins’.Ĭhildren born a century from now will face different challenges and who is to say what that will mean? In actual fact, it will be no different to the way we feel today. Nevertheless, my grandparents often reminisced about ‘the good old days.’Įach generation adapts to survive in its own time and accepts that as normal. Two generations ago my ancestors were fighting world wars and would not have wished that upon you. What I say to my kids is, ‘you were born in this century, at the end of a period of great privilege. Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet ‘If someone is not happy within themselves, how can they help the environment? That is why to protect non-human elements is to protect humans, and to protect humans is to protect non-human elements’. The quantity of this plant-based waste is so More and it affects us all at some point. Without animals, the energy from today’s plants (algae, trees, flowers etc) will eventually reach the atmosphere and ocean, much of it as carbon.
It’s one of the more poisonous aspects of modern conservation Why is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only mechanism to create biodiversity, which is the mechanism that creates a habitable planet for humans.
I have an 18 year-old girl and 17 year-old boy who are bombarded each day with rhetoric designed to make them feel guilty about being human. However, this is what actually makes me optimistic about the future … but not in the way you might think. The benefit of understanding how nature works and its unyielding power is to accept our inevitability. Will humans survive the next hundred years? This is one of the more common questions I get asked.
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