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Posted on Oct 28, 2009

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By radson, October 30, 2009 at 4:43 pm #

Yes it’s abvious the people of Planet Earth are ill and the experts are prescribing poison as a cure ,because it’s profitable.
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By WykydRed, October 30, 2009 at 11:10 am #

It IS a very emotive cartoon, and it’s probably supposed to represent the trouble “the world” is in, but it’s the human whose chart is grounding. Yes, the world is cracking and breaking. Yes, fresh water is getting scarce. Yes, animals are dying off. Yes, the world is being sucked dry of resources.

But the World is not in any trouble. It’s humans. The world will repair herself from what humans have done to her. The water will be enough for the life forms that survive after humans die off. Buildings will crack and rot. Machines will be broken down and swallowed back into the earth. (Man, I LOVE “Life After People”!)

All the bullshit about having to reverse what humans have done to exacerbate their own demise is just that - it’s about humans. People who use religion to bar breeding, abortion, not having kids because you don’t want to. People who want money, toys, more, more, more. The truth is, if 90% of humanity could simply drop dead in one night, yes, there would be a messy world left, and there will be one again if humans don’t learn what animals have: it takes a specific amount of air, water, calories and space to live, and overcrowding just means a whole lot of things get eaten until balance is restored or a species dies out an makes room for other species.

I always get the argument that “people are more important than animals!” No. We aren’t. If “we” have brains and the ability to use them that make us more than animals, then why aren’t we using them to cut our population? To live more simply? To work out the whole air, space, food, resources to humans ratio? No. Instead, we’re dreaming about finding water on the moon to sustain us for a few more years and looking for “earth-like” worlds to go and invade.

For four years now, people have observed Polar Bears -whose species is dying off because of ice melt-mating with Brown Bears-whose species is not. I don’t think animals are becoming smarter, I think they are just surviving in whatever form necessary by passing along genetic material. I also don’t believe people are getting one micron smarter about anything, but they sure are using their big brains to make excuses and rationalizations!

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By NYCartist, October 29, 2009 at 12:42 pm #

Thought provoking.  Greek.

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