Humans Are An Unnecessary Ingredient
“Before I was six years old, my grandparents and my mother had taught me that if all the green things that grow were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the winged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all our relatives who crawl and swim and live within the earth were taken away, there could be no life. But if all the human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish. That is how insignificant we are.”
— Russell Means, Oglala Lakota Nation
(November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012).
2 comments:
Well to be fair, anything beyond prokaryotic life is an "unnecessary ingredient" for life on this planet. Bacteria did just fine before eukarotes, and with it multicellular life came along. And they are more than capable to keep going if all those organisms would disappear today.
But no bacteria means literally no life.
That is very true. I've said it before, this earth will shrug us off like so many unwelcome ants on a picnic blanket. It will happen very soon. Humanity is doing nothing but making everything on this planet worse by the minute, and fiddling while it all burns.
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