Man. He walks, he runs, he eats, he sleeps. He thinks. He thinks he has a greater right to this very Earth than anything he sees, even if that thing also walks, runs, eats, sleeps. But, what does it think, that thing that Man looks down on? Does Man know, or does he care to know?
What if we could see into the minds of animals, would it make a difference to how we treat them? If we could accept that they feel fear and loathing, those strongest of human emotions, just as trully as we do, would we feel more connected to them? We know our dogs love us, but we still throw them a bone, and tell them to sit and stay. Our overrated sense of self, and naive assumption that our capacity to see future possibilities somehow makes us better than our fellow walkers, eaters and sleepers, is both arrogant and ignorant. Who or what are we that our actions decide their future, without due consideration for their survival?
We've lost our sense of what walks around us. A butterfly flies, but do we see it, or is it just there, and would we as a species miss it if it were gone? Would we put the necessary two and two together to make the four that opens our eyes to the butterfly effect of the extinction of even the smallest of creatures?
The scary thing is this. The death of the butterfly would probably be swept under the vinyl carpet by the ones who don't care to be connected to nature. They are connected to money, and as long as they keep us that way, in their eyes, their survival is guaranteed and that's what matters to them.
They keep telling us it's time for change, the most important change we can make right now is how we live on our planet.
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