Life on Earth is disappearing fast and will continue to do so unless urgent action is taken.
The extinction crisis is escalating. But how is this crisis related to human overpopulation?
Too many human beings doing so many destructive things on the planet is the cause of the 6th mass extinction. THIS IS AN ANIMAL RIGHTS ISSUE - THE ULTIMATE ONE.
Reviewing the global destruction of ecosystems, plummeting wild populations and species losses makes it obvious our industrial consumer culture has to stop the destruction NOW.
All life on the planet is going and going fast.
We have got to this point because we (people in our culture) think we are the only life deserving rights. People have to decide: Do they want all animals on Earth to die out? Right now they are deciding: Yes.
There are 4 things that have to happen NOW if animal life on Earth is to survive. (And I'm using the lay -- not scientific -- meaning of animals. Many people forget, ironically, that humans are animals.)
1. STOP EATING FLESH - animal and fish and fowl
2. STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS
3. STOP CUTTING DOWN and BURNING FORESTS\
4. STOP INCREASING the HUMAN POPULATION
It is very clear that it's too late to think just doing less of these destructive activities will prevent the extinction of life. The Earth is already in ecological melt down. Action must be DRASTIC and it must be NOW to stop the destruction of life from becoming irreversible.
Our industrial consumer economy is converting the Earth into an uninhabitable planet at breakneck speed. We are already beyond some planetary tipping points. If we don't give the organic living Earth a space to recover and replenish, the entire biosphere will crash in a matter of decades and all animal life will die out over the next century.
To stop these insanely destructive activities, we must stop denying any life but our own the right to live. This means:
- OTHER ANIMALS HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIFE.
- FUTURE HUMAN GENERATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIFE.
- CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO INHERIT A HABITABLE PLANET.
For the Earth, the Children (of All Species), and the Future,
Peter D. Carter, MD
Thank you to Voices in the Wilderness: A Prayer for Wild Things for their beautiful mosaic.
1 comment:
It is not comaptible with not eating flesh. Didn't the failure of the mega rice project and destruction of the amazon rainforest for soya teach people anything? Animals can graze where crops cannot be grown.
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