Imagine this - you are inside one of Earth’s beautifully crafted rainforests, engulfed in the pure serenity and unknown. You try to come in tune with your senses, first, the sounds. Telling by the sun, the forest creatures are out and about for their spiritual midday chatter. Communicating with each other in their native tongue, it leaves for a rather loud afternoon. Now, the sights. You open your eyes, immediately captivated and awestruck. Mostly all you see is various greens, tangled in the spider web of epiphytes. Above you, the sky is checkered with canopy trees, in front of you, the forest is dense with shrubs and vines, fighting to survive with so little sunlight.
Fortunately, you are not alone in this experience. The black howler monkeys throw their bodies on their …show more content…
One little thing will always affect the bigger picture. Just like an earthquake in California will cause the deaths of many in Japan via tsunami. Living in the evergreen forest of Maine nearly monthly, I come in tune with my surroundings. I’m thankful for the foliage growing, and the creatures watching me carefully, both in land and in water. We are one planet, one Earth, one system. Those marching into territory that does not belong to them, to drill hundreds of miles into the earth’s skin, for one tank of gas, are not thinking of the big picture. Not only are you mercilessly murdering your own planet, you are doing it for the paycheck. For the accolade given to you by your boss. Are the workers naive? Maybe. Are they questioning the effects of their actions, given to them by money hungry corporations such as Texaco? No. Your polluted ocean is my polluted ocean. You murder a species of animals one by one, that’s another species my child will never see in person. You rip a forest out of the ground that was there before man was, that’s one less opportunity for life to
Fortunately, you are not alone in this experience. The black howler monkeys throw their bodies on their …show more content…
One little thing will always affect the bigger picture. Just like an earthquake in California will cause the deaths of many in Japan via tsunami. Living in the evergreen forest of Maine nearly monthly, I come in tune with my surroundings. I’m thankful for the foliage growing, and the creatures watching me carefully, both in land and in water. We are one planet, one Earth, one system. Those marching into territory that does not belong to them, to drill hundreds of miles into the earth’s skin, for one tank of gas, are not thinking of the big picture. Not only are you mercilessly murdering your own planet, you are doing it for the paycheck. For the accolade given to you by your boss. Are the workers naive? Maybe. Are they questioning the effects of their actions, given to them by money hungry corporations such as Texaco? No. Your polluted ocean is my polluted ocean. You murder a species of animals one by one, that’s another species my child will never see in person. You rip a forest out of the ground that was there before man was, that’s one less opportunity for life to