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ival.But everything started to change with the advent of colonialism, starting around 1500 with European discoveries of a passage around Africa and a direct route to America.Colonialism was the dividing line, where the crazy train ran off the tracks.European countries such as Britain, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal began colonizing lands across both North and South America.At its height, the British Empire ruled over a quarter of the earth’s land and peoples. They had colonies all over the world.The motive for colonialism was sheer greed.They regarded the Americas as vast storehouses of mineral wealth such as gold and silver as well as sugar and valuable agricultural spaces to expand far beyond their natural borders.The colonial powers could care less about the rights of the indigenous peoples and the balance of nature they practiced religiously.The colonialists supplanted both ruthlessly, without a second thought. The imbalance between mankind and nature began with the colonialists and still exists today.The colonial era was without question the dividing line between living in harmony with the earth and exploiting it.It marked a permanent change between conservation and stewardship of the land as practiced by the indigenous peoples and the raw exploitation by technologically superior but morally inferior societies.The aftermath is the world of today, where the balance has swung so far the other way because of the advent and spread of fossil fuels.

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The use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas is forcing the entire world into the gravest of environmental disasters-total annihilation.Fossil fuels account for 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions and almost 90% of all carbon dioxide emissions. Greenhouse emissions blanket the earth, trapping the sun’s heat and leading to the fatal ravaging of the planet by global warming.The politics of climate change are racing toward an inevitable conclusion. By the 2030s, climate hazards all over the globe will include more crippling heat waves, coastal flooding, and crop failures.This is the hard reality we are all facing. If we don’t stop polluting our planet, we will eventually be wiped out as a species.Mother Gaia will shrug and write off humanity as just another failed experiment and go back to the drawing board. She will have no choice.With the policies started during colonialism and the ruthless exploitation of the planet ever since it is an inevitable conclusion.We need to get deadly serious about switching over to electric vehicles, biking and walking, using more sustainable materials, and a crash course in education about the seriousness of the problem.We need to acknowledge the necessity of recycling, conserving water, choosing sustainable materials, and a whole different lifestyle.Ironically, a lifestyle back like it was before colonialism and exploitation of the planet began is the only answer.We can do this. It’s not too late. We need to save ourselves. We are all connected…</article></body>

We Should Remember We Are Only Visitors On This Planet

We have no right to misuse its bounties and resources

We humans need to give ourselves a reality check. We need to remember that we are just one of the many life forms that exist on this planet. And certainly far from the best and the brightest.

Why is it that so many humans think that they have some divine right to take advantage of the natural resources and pristine beauty of the world and destroy it for profit?

Where did we ever get such a lame idea? It wasn’t in the hunting and gathering days when we were at one with the beauty, bounty, and benefits of the planet in a natural, effortless symbiosis.

When we lived in harmony and took only what we needed for our physical survival, not to bank fat stacks of cash in some futile and greedy attempt to assert our will on the planet by plundering it for profit.

Isn’t it amazing that the indigenous people in the Americas lived for thousands of years in a balance of nature that satisfied all their needs and didn’t damage the planet?

They took what they needed, and left the rest. They used animal skins for clothing and shelter from the material around them. They farmed hunted, and fished for survival.

But everything started to change with the advent of colonialism, starting around 1500 with European discoveries of a passage around Africa and a direct route to America.

Colonialism was the dividing line, where the crazy train ran off the tracks.

European countries such as Britain, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal began colonizing lands across both North and South America.

At its height, the British Empire ruled over a quarter of the earth’s land and peoples. They had colonies all over the world.

The motive for colonialism was sheer greed.

They regarded the Americas as vast storehouses of mineral wealth such as gold and silver as well as sugar and valuable agricultural spaces to expand far beyond their natural borders.

The colonial powers could care less about the rights of the indigenous peoples and the balance of nature they practiced religiously.

The colonialists supplanted both ruthlessly, without a second thought. The imbalance between mankind and nature began with the colonialists and still exists today.

The colonial era was without question the dividing line between living in harmony with the earth and exploiting it.

It marked a permanent change between conservation and stewardship of the land as practiced by the indigenous peoples and the raw exploitation by technologically superior but morally inferior societies.

The aftermath is the world of today, where the balance has swung so far the other way because of the advent and spread of fossil fuels.

The use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas is forcing the entire world into the gravest of environmental disasters-total annihilation.

Fossil fuels account for 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions and almost 90% of all carbon dioxide emissions. Greenhouse emissions blanket the earth, trapping the sun’s heat and leading to the fatal ravaging of the planet by global warming.

The politics of climate change are racing toward an inevitable conclusion. By the 2030s, climate hazards all over the globe will include more crippling heat waves, coastal flooding, and crop failures.

This is the hard reality we are all facing. If we don’t stop polluting our planet, we will eventually be wiped out as a species.

Mother Gaia will shrug and write off humanity as just another failed experiment and go back to the drawing board. She will have no choice.

With the policies started during colonialism and the ruthless exploitation of the planet ever since it is an inevitable conclusion.

We need to get deadly serious about switching over to electric vehicles, biking and walking, using more sustainable materials, and a crash course in education about the seriousness of the problem.

We need to acknowledge the necessity of recycling, conserving water, choosing sustainable materials, and a whole different lifestyle.

Ironically, a lifestyle back like it was before colonialism and exploitation of the planet began is the only answer.

We can do this. It’s not too late. We need to save ourselves. We are all connected…