You see. I am a humanitarian. I believe in one world, one earth, and only one kind of people. I don’t believe in borders, boundaries, and countries. I dream of no time. I was born far after my time, just ‘cause today we can conceive of it (time).
I wish people could understand that if there is a heaven and a hell, not to focus their whole lives on where they go when they die, but to live for the moment, because in essence that is all we have. Not a moment ago, and not a moment from now, but the NOW… it is all we have. And what we do in the NOW, can effect ourselves, or even someone else for the rest of our lives. I have had the wonderful experience to travel the world. To go to other lands, and corners, that may have a different title but still belongs to each and every one of us. To experience people from different cultures only to see that they are just like me. To see that their flag, their title, their beliefs, still force them to be a human, just like me. To sit when they are tired, to laugh when they are happy, to cry when they are sad. And so I sit right now trying to make and understanding of what life is all about. Is it about relationships? Maybe its about how we can connect with other people, not to have a relationship, but to make a difference for the few moments we stand before each other. Or maybe its about the energy of the land… to understand that borders and boundaries and time is just something that man has just developed to control us, and it is our quest to fight the human food chain.
In my life disappointment has been my biggest down fall. I want to do everything, only to find out I cannot finish anything… I start something, I don’t finish it. I am perceived a failure. I’m a let down to my family, I cant keep a friend to save my life, and yet I still press on only to find myself hurting people that I love and care about. I left my family, only to make friends that will hopefully remember me someday, if they're not already gone.
You see. I am a humanitarian. I believe the only difference is external. I believe the hurt will go away. I believe that man will never give man the chance, because of greed, power, envy, hatred, and jealousy. I believe that as hard as I try to get the people around me to understand me, I cannot find one soul that is not obsessed with their worldly treasures. In this error that we live, the control is so dominate that man is blinded by the treasures of the 20th and 21st century. I cannot even find one man who is not blinded by money, power, and false since of security set forth by there leaders.
You see. I am a humanitarian. I welcome the day when the blind are weeded out. Because only then will you find the true man. And only then will you see that the power is really not in the hands of your leaders, but rather in your hands. The power that each individual man seeks is in his own hands. And when the blind man is eliminated you will see that the one who falls will be today’s leader. And only then will you catch a glimpse of a real person. A person who understands that land is earth. And earth isn’t ours, and we belong to earth, all of us. We are at her mercy. And yet, we destroy her beauty by creating borders and boundaries. We’ve created weapons and industry, to benefit man and to destroy earth. We feel we have the right to take life at no remorse to earth or ourselves. We feel that killing the energy and life in the rainforests is nothing but a mere consequence of industry. I beg the earth to fight back. I beg for the fury of our mother. And if it cost me my life then I beg for her to hurry. Much more of this abuse, this murder, and I am ready to cash in. My chips were played before I entered this game.
You see. I am a humanitarian. I believe in the rights of a free man. But then you can’t describe what free really is, ‘cause its something that we have learned to live without, only to hide behind its true meaning. Land of the free?? I think not. In the year 2000, no land is free. And we settle for this. 6 billion people, and we are unable to stand up against the harsh dictatorship called in the modern day… government. Every country has it, and all of them are corrupt. All of them. But we need government? NO, we need freedom. And yet we will live most of our lives never knowing what freedom feels like. Mostly because our minds our deluded by TV, materialistic things, greed, and that false since of security… freedom.

Why Man Deserves Extinction
Before I begin my argument, I must state to you that I am a humanitarian. I do believe to the well being of man and do not wish this upon man. But how things are going in our world right now, no other species in the universe that I can see deserves extinction more than man.
Man has been a destructive species as far back as the records go. But before the technological age the destructive ways of man really only affected man. Man has always been a violent species, and history books prove that man has always been at some kind of war with each other. But before the technological age mans destructive ways only killed off other humans. In the past, man had no major bearing on other species, global warming, and our environment. Though man’s desires haven’t changed much through the coarse of history, man still desires wealth, power, and knowledge regardless of consequence. With these desires plaguing man since the beginning of time, and man’s level of intelligence, we find the modern day man destroying the world around him with no thought of consequence. With the knowledge that man has in today’s world, all the facts of their destruction to the earth, it is still not enough information for man to stop their destructive ways that may one day destroy their species. Man’s lack of taking note to the problems at hand, for not taking action, due to his personal desires over what is best for man and not what is best for earth. What will it take? Will it take the extinction of man for the earth to heal herself? Or will man assume responsibility for his actions and fix his corruption before his deserved extinction?
Only in the last 100 years of our species have we found our technology taking over our earth. With no thought to earth, we find ourselves tapping the earth dry of her natural resources, and polluting the remainder. With no sign of a technological slowdown, I see man on the course of destruction and soon getting his deserved extinction. If there were to be a verbal communication between plants, animals and human beings, humans would hear the cry of our world. But instead, all we have is fact sheets. And this doesn’t seem to be enough to persuade man from his destructive ways.
Man’s desire for technology has had a detrimental effect on our earth. One of the largest effects is called the Greenhouse Effect. Carbon dioxide and other gases from the burning of fossil fuels collect in the atmosphere and act like the glass walls of a greenhouse, trapping heat on the earth’s surface. Scientists predict that the planet’s average temperature could rise as much as 6.3 degrees F over the next century, and we are already seeing heat waves, melting polar ice and rising seas. Local impact remains unpredictable: some areas could suffer stronger storms and other places severe drought.
In Sydney, Australia for 3 days in August 1998, a storm dumped nearly 1 foot of rain; three times as much as normally falls during that entire month. Between Spain, Mexico, and Indonesia since 1994, about 4.5 million acres of land has burned due to severe drought (www.climatehotmap.org).
Rising seas and melting glaciers are hard facts in the destructive effect of mans technological age. In Fiji, the shoreline has receded half a foot per year for the past 90 years. In Hawaii, sea-level rise at Waimea Bay, along with coastal development, has contributed to considerable beach loss over the past 90 years. In the Caucasus Mountains in Russia, half of all glacial ice has disappeared in the past 100 years. And in Peru, the Qori Kalis glacier in the Andes Mountains is receding about 100 ft. per year, a sevenfold increase in rate since the 1960’s and 1970’s. In the Arctic Ocean the area covered by sea ice declined about 6rom 1978 to 1995. And in the Antarctica nearly 1150 sq. miles of the Larson B and Wilkins ice shelves collapsed from March 1998 to March 1999.
These are hard facts for the human race to swallow. Does man accept responsibility? Does man even think that these facts of global warming are a direct fault of his own species? Is technology worth this risk?
Humans show no sign of a slowdown of the burning of fossil fuels, nor do the leaders seem to think that these few facts seem to be enough to rethink our existence and why we are on this earth. The cry of mother earth’s facts is overwhelming. Global Warming will affect man. The melting of glaciers, the droughts, rising seas, polar warming, storms and floods are all signs of the beginning of man’s rightfully deserved extinction. And I have not even begun to speak of the other thousands of species that we share this planet with. And the thousands of species that we are killing off because of our greed and desire for power, wealth and technology. We don’t own this planet over these other species, we share it with them. But our greedy ways tell tales that we think we own this planet too. We are devastatingly wrong.
The vanishing animals on our planet have an impact on our earth that may even be irreversible. If only these animals could speak to the human animal to explain their concerns and their point and reason why wealth and technology should not be a priority to humans. To explain that the importance of any species that shares this planet is to work together to create a happy, healthy environment for all species to live in harmony.
In the past 100 years man has failed to think of any other species but themselves. In California, the Edith’s Checkerspot Butterfly has disappeared from the lower elevations and southern limits of its range. The Adelie penguin population has declined 33n 25 years because of the sea ice where they live is shrinking. In the Canadian Arctic, the Peary Caribou numbers dropped from 24000 in 1961 to as few as 1100 in 1997, mostly because heavy snowfalls and freezing rain covered their food supply.
The animal extinction facts are directly tied to global warming. There are thousands of animals that have already gone extinct, but for the endangered species there is no time to waste.
Animals generally react to consistently warmer temperatures by moving to higher latitudes and elevations. Recent studies have revealed that some species have already started to shift their ranges, consistent with warming trends. Many populations and species may become more vulnerable to declining numbers if warming occurs faster then they can respond or if human development presents barriers to their migration.
Again facts of man’s destructive ways. The species I have just discussed share our land with us. Their existence is equally important. And if the ways of man continue, we will soon be able to add the human race to the endangered species list.
Man’s technology has had a large effect on the animal life, plant life, climate, and even the under world has experienced what a devastating effect man is to this planet. Our ocean and sea life has been in a major chokehold since the beginning of man’s technological age. Our seas are experiencing sea life extinction with coral reefs and many other living organisms. The oceans are polluted more than our land. Mans history with using the ocean as his trash dump has played a devastating roll on all life.
The coral reefs seem to be one of the hardest hits of mans destructive ways. Reefs in 32 countries experienced dramatic bleaching in 1997-98. Bleaching results in the loss of microscopic algae that both color and nourish living corals. Water that is warmer than normal by only 2 to 3 degrees F has been directly linked to beaching. Other factors that are linked to coral reef bleaching include nutrient and sediment runoff, pollution, coastal development, dynamiting of reefs, and natural storm drain. Over 60f the world’s coral reefs are threatened (Surfrider foundation).
Man’s destruction of the ocean doesn’t stop there. Fourteen billion pounds of human garbage are dumped into the world’s oceans every year, most of it in the northern hemisphere. In the United States alone, sewage treatment plants dump 5.9 trillion gallons of wastewater into coastal waters each year.
Three and a quarter million tons of oil enters the oceans of the world each year. Just one quart of motor oil down a storm drain contaminates 250,000 gallons of water. And again devastating facts and results from the careless human being.
With all of these ecological and environmental facts in mind, I have found the gateway to the rightfully deserved extinction to man, to be the rainforest. Long ago, the Earth had a green belt of rainforests around its middle (equator) that covered almost 14f the earth’s land surface. Today the rain forest covers only less than 6f the earths land surface, and its declining rapidly. The rainforests of the world are declining at a rate of 80 acres per minute, day and night (Tropical Rainforest Coalition).
The destruction of the rain forest causes carbon dioxide to be released, which in turn allows the green house effect to occur. One major reason for the depletion of the rain forest is for logging. Trees from these rainforests are used for the human race. Such as building houses, making furniture, and providing pulp for paper products like newspapers and magazines. Corporations have convinced many rainforest countries that their economies would improve if they allow these companies to use the land. Now these countries’ economies have become dependent on it.
The rainforests are home to over half of the entire species of the world, which are being destroyed with the rainforest. Unlike the rainforest, which may grow back, all of the species that were killed off will never return again. There are thousands of species that are being killed off that haven’t even been discovered yet. Think of possibility that maybe one of these species, plant or animal, that we are killing or already killed off could very well carry the cure of AIDS or cancer or any other disease or virus in today’s world.
It’s very simple. The plants and trees in the rain forest turn carbon dioxide into clean air. Which helps clean air pollution, and helps all oxygen breathing species breathe. Also, by absorbing carbon dioxide the rainforests help deter the greenhouse effect.
Now one might say that extinction is far too extreme result of man’s ignorance. Maybe man should be served some sort of punishment instead of extinction for his irresponsibility and lack for respect for the earth and each other. There are a lot of humans who share the earth rightfully. Who respect the earth, and do what they can to better the quality of life for earth. One might say that there are enough of these people on earth that extinction to the human species is too extreme. Not everyone deserves extinction, and therefore, extinction again is too extreme. And I can agree with this concept, but I also have to call on extreme measures to truly make a difference. It sometimes calls for the worst things to happen, to get answers and results.
In Los Angeles in 1992, when a jury found the police officers not guilty of the beating of Rodney King, an entire race felt an injustice had been done. Had these people who felt the problems with the LAPD, with their racism, violence, and unfair treatment to minorities protested this juries decision by holding signs or having a protest march, they would have received little attention. Maybe a 30-second spot on the news. But with the extreme action, of riots and violence, these people were heard around the world for a few days, and are still heard today. Even President Clinton visited LA shortly after the riots. This situation would never been heard by government that high up if the protest was with just signs and a march. It took extreme measures to get the problem of racism with the LAPD noticed. But it got heard and hopefully fixed. No one hears the cry of the quiet man.
And so like these people who have been served an injustice after injustice reap their revenge with violence to their city. I can associate their behavior to the earth’s need for the same kind of action. I can see that with all the facts of mans horrible behavior to mother earth. All the harm and massive destruction. Humans’ inability to get along with each other. Their inability to see their significance on earth. Their injustice acts after injustice acts to the earth. The earth is left no choice but to call for extreme measures to call attention to these problems. The earth must fix the problem. Man has been given enough opportunity to prove that they deserve the ecosystem they were born into. And still, with all of man’s knowledge and facts or their destructive ways, they still take very little action to solve these problems they’ve caused. When humans are in a time that calls for extreme action, man proves daily that he does not deserve the ecosystem he was born into.
And it is this inability of man that will force earth to rid herself of man. Its has been brought to attention over and over again, with earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, famine, and other natural disasters plaguing the world worse now than ever recorded. It seems that earth has already begun taking action.
During the course of my research I always kept in mind a solution to this problem. What would it take for the human race to avoid this horrible tragedy? How could man excape extinction?
I kept trying to find a global answer. What I was expecting was an answer that took global action on behalf of the entire human race. I was wrong. I couldn’t find an easy global solution.
What I did find was much more simple then an easy global solution. What I found was an individual solution. I found a solution that would require each individual human to take responsibility for their existence. For each individual to digress with unnecessary technology and to give back to the ecosystem that they owe their existence to. It would take a global effort, but one would not have to look any further than their own existence. To eliminate greed, power, wealth, and most technology from our race, and to learn to live with each other, in harmony with plants, animals, and all of mother earth. It would be up to the individual, every individual, to take action immediately to avoid the human destiny of going extinct.
Such a simple, individual, possible answer. And yet such impossible answers to ask from the human race. To give back to earth and to lose traits like greed, wealth, and technology.
I see that realistic thinking the human race has the ability, but will refuse to accomplish this task. This is an impossible mission to ask of the human race. Which in turn leaves mother earth no other answer. Earth must take action. And because this is such an impossible request to make from the human race, this is exactly why I feel man “deserves extinction”.