My Mother Earth Essay

We exploited all kinds of resources of the earth from oil, gas, gold, iron, and other precious minerals for mass production to flora and fauna for food and commoditized products. We grazed every virgin forest to alleviate our increasing problems of congestion due to our growing population just to make room for shelters. We contaminated bodies of water with human litters, poisons, and filth because we don’t have a place to put our waste anymore, besides our planet is mostly covered in blue; it won’t harm us. We erased many species of animals and plants because we think they don’t matter anyway. What matters most is that humans are progressing. If they can’t cope with our activities then they might just vanish for good. We always reason that

We are so smart, very very smart. We call earth “OUR” planet. Others call it mother earth. We would like to think that we are the lone child of mother earth. To be honest, humans are just one of its children. Humans so intelligent, very very intelligent fail to realize that other creatures are their siblings. Animals and plants co-existed with humans. Without them, we cannot survive or breathe! Yet we are so afraid of lions and tigers so we make it a game to shoot them for fun or make money out of these animals by caging them in the zoo or circus. Many of us would say that sharks are monsters, incredibly terrible creatures that are always on the loose to attack the defenseless and intelligent human beings. So we hunt them for their oils, teeth, and fins, pushing sharks at the verge of extinction. Humans are so scared of crocodiles and snakes for they are ruthless devils. So we catch them then flay their skins out of their bodies and strap it around our waists as belts or hang it on our shoulders as bags. White bunnies, although they are cute and fluffy, are pests to our agricultural lands but thanks to human ingenuity, we transform their fur into jackets and clothing. Humans, very very bright beings are so troubled with the constant problem of flash floods and landslide but still continue to topple down trees of every thriving forest. The very bright humans have murdered the ocean yet they expect it to feed