If this skull is found in the future, those who find it will wonder what sort of beings these were who tried to completely obliterate our home?
For many people around the world, if they see something broken they feel almost compelled to fix it. Be it a car or animal or a home we feel the need to set it right. However, one thing has become obvious over the last several decades. There is one thing that is just too big to fix and every time we attempt to do so we only seem to make matters worse.
That one thing is our environment. By the very presence of human beings our world is being stripped of any form of balance. Be it through greed, an accidental introduction or simply a lack of care we just seem to keep making the problem worse.
The environment and natural habitats for many plants and animals are being destroyed by global warming. Among these are the polar bear and walrus in the north, all big cat populations around the globe and most of the worlds bear species.
Now Alaska has announced that they will allow hunting of bears from the air in an effort to protect caribou and moose populations. In some areas there are too many bears forced into ever shrinking areas and it is taking a toll on the local caribou and moose. In the areas that no longer have bears, the ranking predator of the area, the population of moose and caribou is growing out of control. Soon that is another problem man will try to fix.
In Australia the kangaroo is now being relentlessly hunted. Why? Because the wild dingo, the kangaroo’s natural predator is almost extinct. Also koala bears are suffering losses due to the removal of eucalyptus trees and long periods of extremely hot weather brought about by climate change.
The rain forests around the world are all in jeopardy and we cannot even begin to know the number of species our world has lost. Whether it is burning the forest for farmland, clearing them for development or as in parts of Asia, having an aggressive tree introduced that is choking out all the native plants, we are losing the rain forests at an alarming rate.
In Hawaii an invasion of non-native plants is underway and as beautiful as the state may be I fear I would lose my sanity if I moved there. A small frog the size of a quarter is overrunning portions of the state and its mating call is as loud as a car alarm. This frog mates year round so every night outside your bedroom window there could be thousands of them calling away cutting into your rest.
Pythons invading the Florida Everglades, wild mustangs being hunted down in Nevada and wolves shot on sight in Wyoming. The list just goes on and on and on and on……..
All while we try again and again to fix the problems we have caused to a system that established itself millions of years before the first man took his first step. A system I am sure will be around long after the human race is studied by the next intelligent species the way we study the dinosaur today.
What we can do and has been proven to work is a combination of prevention, education and conservation. We need more and ever more people who care. We must be more careful about allowing plants and animals into areas where they do not belong. We need to protect the species that are in danger today and give them a chance to rebound from our constant tinkering with the ecosystem.
We need stronger laws to protect our air and water plus regulations that would reign in major polluters and give us clean air and vehicles. If the people of this world can take a firm stand and actually begin to care we may survive. If not we are as doomed as the dinosaur through a disaster of our own design.
