In the Wake of New Planets Let’s Worry about the Habitable Earth
So good news! NASA found 7 more planets, 3 of which might be habitable. Now we can keep wrecking the one where we are living and not worry about a backup. Sigh.. if only that was the case.
NASA may have found 3 new possibly habitable planets and that is a wonderful news, but we can’t let the one that (for now) is the only habitable planet in the Universe, slip away towards degradation.
National Geographic shared a recent post about marine life and sadly a beautiful creature “Marine Iguana” among many others has joined the list of endangered species due to our invasion. If we take a moment to think about how each one of us is responsible for marring an actual life, an actual species, we might feel sad and guilty and responsible. We need to hold on to that, because Marine Iguana is one of many species that have suffered at our hands.
And sadly, that’s not it! In another bestial act, which shows the level to which the social media addiction has stooped us to, a dolphin died because people wanted to take selfie with it. Was that selfie more important than a life? When did we declare ourselves upped to the level of being the maker or destroyer of lives? A beautiful creature was dying and people were giggling near it, trying to snap few moments of bragging to their followers/online friends. It was gasping for breath and everyone was taking a photograph! It was wiggling for its life and everyone around was tossing it around just for fun. If we take a moment and reflect on these happenings we might realize those dystopian movies/novels are not far from turning in to reality.
Another article shared details of how the apple varieties that we had 100 years ago are no longer available. We are not only making species extinct but also making food disappear! If this continues then the new planets might self-evolve to throw us out before we can get close enough to say “Howdy!”
Or could it be that the alien life forms on those planets have already evolved to a level where they have been trying to hide their planets since a long time, but finally we have been able to find them. They might be running around with the tension of being invaded by the destroyers (as I imagine they might be calling us).
Remember the time when you get a nail chipped and it hurt like hell, oh well that reminds me of Pangolins trafficked for money and meat or those HawkBill sea turtles killed and smuggled for their shells to be used for petty jewelry. But back at that nail chip, hope that’s healing up now.
At the Oscars last year Leonardo Di Caprio made a powerful point about the dwindling levels of snow. A recent news confirmed thousands of bats dying due to heat wave, a record heat wave for two days in a row. We are doing this to Earth. We, with all our fancy garbage bags going down the disposal chute are doing this to our beloved Earth.
But not all hope is lost, maybe there’s still time for us to turn back the tables. Or probably wait for the aliens to take over the world and make it a better place to live.
