Mother Earth Weeps Over Species Extinction: Human Population Onslaught

By Frosty Wooldridge

Oxford University biologist Norman Myers reported that humanity causes the “Sixth Extinction Session” accelerating throughout the animal kingdom.  Climate changes, meteors, ice ages and massive burns created the first five mass extinction sessions.  Myers worked for decades in the rain forests worldwide to come up with a figure of 100 species facing extinction every day of the year.  (Source: Oxford University Study, worldwide extinction rates.)

“Upwards of one hundred species.. mostly of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are becoming extinct here every day because more and more of the earth’s carrying capacity is systematically being converted into human carrying capacity. These species are being burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out of existence.. thanks to technologies that most people, I’m afraid, think of as technologies of peace. I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.” Daniel Quinn

Notwithstanding, the human race adds 80 million, net gain, annually.  Humans grow like a hungry mob of demons devouring everything in their path. 

If it’s the last black rhino in Africa, humans poach it to extinction for the last trophy horns on someone’s mantle.  If it’s Cecil the lion, a dentist extinguishes its life for a “victory” picture on his fireplace.  If it’s the monarch butterflies of California now extinguished by 90 percent in 20 years, Monsanto continues selling “Roundup weed killer” to make certain monarchs never fly again.  Humans kill 100,000,000 (million) sharks in the oceans every year, decade in and decade out.  Countries don’t care, their leaders don’t care, religious leaders don’t care, and in fact, nobody cares.

But everybody loses the essence of Mother Earth.

At some point, when the grizzly vanishes, the humpback whale sings its last song or the hummingbird makes its last flower run—the human race will pave its roads into the last of the silence.  Mother Earth weeps for its children.    Frosty Wooldridge, six continent world bicycle traveler.

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