The Invasive Species
There is an invasive species amongst us and it's destroying our world. It doesn't seem to stop at anything and is professedly unaware of its destructive habits upon the earth and nature. It plows through our forests, desecrating our ancient trees in it’s path while strangling itself in the process. It sucks up our water sources so fast that they cannot replenish naturally, and yet it cannot quench its thirst for more. It scours the world's worth of crops but leaves the majority to refuge and waste. It hunts, but does not eat its kill, while endangering or even eliminating its chance for future nourishment. It is eating up the world around it and killing itself in the process. We are this invasive species. Humans. The overpopulation of the earth and our reliance upon nature and its resources is extremely out of balance, we are destroying the notion of a symbiotic existence necessary for our sustainment. I have spent a lot of time in the outdoors in my life and have grown very fond of the nature that surrounds us. Camping, backpacking and growing up with a very adventurous Boy Scout group has allowed me to fully embrace nature’s offerings. I admire the trees …show more content…
My favorite campsites close down mid summer due to the lack of water. Campfires are often prohibited because of the inability to extinguish an unnatural wildfire. And our rivers are all but dried up. Water allotments forced my family to gather our shower waste in buckets to flush our toilets with. We filled two-liter bottles with sand and put them in the toilet tanks to reduce the amount of water per flush. There is an extreme over use of our most valuable asset. Freshwater accounts for only 2.5% of water on this earth, and only 1% of that is easily accessible, this leaves us .007% of our plants water to feed 7 billion, I feel we should me more mindful of how we use
There is an invasive species amongst us and it's destroying our world. It doesn't seem to stop at anything and is professedly unaware of its destructive habits upon the earth and nature. It plows through our forests, desecrating our ancient trees in it’s path while strangling itself in the process. It sucks up our water sources so fast that they cannot replenish naturally, and yet it cannot quench its thirst for more. It scours the world's worth of crops but leaves the majority to refuge and waste. It hunts, but does not eat its kill, while endangering or even eliminating its chance for future nourishment. It is eating up the world around it and killing itself in the process. We are this invasive species. Humans. The overpopulation of the earth and our reliance upon nature and its resources is extremely out of balance, we are destroying the notion of a symbiotic existence necessary for our sustainment. I have spent a lot of time in the outdoors in my life and have grown very fond of the nature that surrounds us. Camping, backpacking and growing up with a very adventurous Boy Scout group has allowed me to fully embrace nature’s offerings. I admire the trees …show more content…
My favorite campsites close down mid summer due to the lack of water. Campfires are often prohibited because of the inability to extinguish an unnatural wildfire. And our rivers are all but dried up. Water allotments forced my family to gather our shower waste in buckets to flush our toilets with. We filled two-liter bottles with sand and put them in the toilet tanks to reduce the amount of water per flush. There is an extreme over use of our most valuable asset. Freshwater accounts for only 2.5% of water on this earth, and only 1% of that is easily accessible, this leaves us .007% of our plants water to feed 7 billion, I feel we should me more mindful of how we use