Greater Than Us by dane bunel We’ve made it through another year, but at what cost? Think about all the things that we see in our everyday life and what we know as human beings. We are made to feel, and when time is spent out in the shiny green grass as the sun shines on you with big bright trees lurking in every corner, you really start to feel one with the world. Now imagine a world where all of that is taken away. The real question has to do with the future. Is the decline of wildlife fixable or simply inevitable? The only way to figure this out is to go back and look at what’s laid out on the surface and what’s fact.
comes to our lives. In the end our life will still continue, but is the decline of life around us inevitable? Many believe the only man worthy enough of giving an answer is long-time wildlife enthusiast David Attenborough. He himself will tell you all the things I have already said. It’s a difficult topic to absorb but Attenborough puts simplicity in it with one beautiful quote. “I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. Are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren will see things like elephants and trees as something only seen in books? If humans were erased tomorrow, the world would honestly be better off.”
Even with that being said, there are still drops of life on this planet not yet touched by humanity, our last hopes. Other than that we still have our purpose too, even with an overcrowded population. Although the future seems inevitable right now, the fire can still be put out with enough help. If we’re going to be part of the issue and there’s no way to slow it down, the next best thing to do is to speak Any wildlife chart up. Change comes with optional for view one easy task, treat on the Internet will others the way you tell you all the same want to be treated, and thing. Whether it be not just other human accumulating trash beings, other living in the ocean, steady entities. Lets make 2020 glacier declines, the year of reflection This is a piece by local Louisville artist, Asia Quammie, who dedicates this drawing to all the men and women burning forests or where we sit back, reflect, who need a clearer vision of what real problems really look like. Photo: Dane Bunel overfishing our seas, and act. catastrophic decline has no sign of slowing down. In the midst of our ongoing struggles with life during Covid-19, we’ve failed to If you want to get involved and stop the below 50% wildlife realize all this time that there is something far greater that has destruction scale, speak up and get in contact with a number of hit the peak of its own pandemic long before our own, and that nonprofits and organizations partnered with the WWF who’s thing is nature itself. contribution is fully achieved when a call from you comes Certified climate change organizations and wildlife enthusiasts such as the WWF, UNICEF, and the World Economic Forum have been keepings records and charts over the last 100 years, and all giving a clear indication of what the root of our problems really are. The answer is simply ourselves.
The question still remains though, can it slow down for us to catch up? People that revolve their life around things like oil, fishing, construction, etc. are more likely to contribute to the decline of wildlife, but that isn’t slowing anyone down when it
through. Let’s make 2020 the year where we take back our planet.
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