Ospreys are nesting in downtown Dunedin and on Honeymoon Island. After spending the morning and early afternoon with the ospreys, I happened to find a flock of parrots in Largo:
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Each and every day is beautiful.
Why then do humans spend so much time fighting, killing, warring, destroying, polluting ...
I wish that there was a way to teach peace to humankind. Humans have wasted so much time and squandered our brief moment of existence in the Universe. Humankind (collectively) doesn't seem to want to survive.
We're living at a frantic pace simply to accumulate possessions (nearly all of which are inanimate and specifically designed to reach a landfill as quickly as possible) while everyone seems to neglect and abuse the living world.
We've gained so much and lost so much. Actually, we've lost a lot more than we've gained. The benefits of technological civilization are temporary, the negative impacts of pollution and environmental destruction will linger for long after humankind is gone.
Whenever I travel around and happen to find plants and animals, I am always thankful and more than a little stunned ... wondering, "How did you survive the civilization catastrophe?"
Then I tell the plants and the animals, "Hold out for a little longer and civilization will end of its own accord. Civilization wasn't built to last, and it won't. Nature will reclaim the Earth soon enough."
But isn't it a tragedy that humankind has chosen to live in this way?
David Mathews
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