Our Precious Life Supporting Environment
If you stop and think about it, we as the human race goes, are living in a world of captivity. We preside on islands around the globe called Continents. We’ve over populated to the point of increased starvation, homelessness, sickness and diseases caused by pollution in the ground, in the water and in the air.
There’s only so many people you can fit into a house before everything inside, that once made it a home must be eliminated. Furniture, sinks, bathroom etc. must be cleared out in order to accommodate the new added people taking residency. And once you’ve gone over the maximum number of people the house can hold, it will fall down and there won’t be a home left for anyone. Same holds true for our planet, only on a much larger scale. Rain forests, pastures, mountain forests, deserts, rivers and oceans are being destroyed and forever removed in order to accommodate the increasing and out of control expansion of the human population.
Breaking down our ability and everything living to survive on Earth goes as follows. Ocean plants create 70% of our oxygen while rain forests create another 28% of the oxygen every plant or animal living on Earth needs to exist.
Have you ever wondered why dinosaurs and then mammals that roamed the Earth before humans took over, were much larger than they are today? It is believed this is due partly with the more open space to roam and migrate. However, it is also believed to be greatly in part due to the percentage of oxygen present in our atmosphere. If you place 2 plant seeds with exactly the same living and growing conditions; sunlight, air temperature, soil and nutrients, they will most likely grow in size, shape and health, according to the conditions surrounding them. However, if you deprive one of the plants less oxygen than the other, it is a certainty that the plant being deprived will grow smaller in height, width and color. While its overall appearance and health will be quite noticeably weaker and more likely to die off if even the slightest changes occur. This holds true for the enormous creatures that once roamed our planet. Once the oxygen levels began to decrease, there was not enough oxygen to support their gigantic bodies. And with every new generation, they began to grow smaller in order to accommodate the lesser percentage of life supporting oxygen in our atmosphere.
Yet humans are cutting down rain forests at an alarming rate to provide housing and manufacturing companies. At the same time, our rivers and oceans are being heavily polluted with toxic waste and trash which in turn either kills off the plants or drastically stunts their growth. Every year, the percentage of oxygen we breathe is less and less. While the percentage of deadly carbon dioxide increases. And it doesn’t stop there. As our population, automobiles, fossil fuels and manufactures around the world increases in growth, so does the world’s temperature. This is called the “Greenhouse Effect”. The increased heat accumulated around the globe has nowhere to go but back to Earth. This rise in temperature has already changed weather patterns, ocean currents, and the melting of glaciers in both the north and south poles. These ice packs keep the rotation of Earth’s balance in sync. But when these colder waters collide with the already warmer than normal ocean waters, weather patterns are drastically altered. Every year we are seeing more, and much larger and stronger hurricanes then in hundreds of years past. While tornadoes are appearing in areas never before seen. Drought and flooding is also beyond the normal. With the extermination of Rain Forests and the pollution of our oceans and waterways, the remaining plants and trees are falling farther behind every year in the exchange and production of carbon dioxide into breathable oxygen. All the while the toxic excess carbon dioxide that has not being transformed rises into our atmosphere contaminating and breaking down our ozone level. Our fragile ozone level crisscrosses from pole to pole blocking out deadly radiation our sun is constantly hurling towards us. The weaker the ozone level gets; the increased percentage of deadly radiation will enter our atmosphere. This could certainly be one of the reasons we’re seeing an increase in cancers worldwide.
There are many theories of what caused the last ice age. Many of them are simply too ridiculous to even mention. The most probable cause is more likely due to the sun’s variation in its peaks causing the colder temperatures to cover the Earth’s surface. If that’s true and I believe it is, there’s nothing we know of as yet, to alter the life changes coming, or the possible extinction of mankind. I also believe natural or not, we are certainly not helping matters with over population and the toxic pollution we are covering the planet with. What should be a much slower transformation in radical weather fluctuations, with possibly thousands of years to come before any critical deviations occur, is rapidly modifying the longevity of Earth’s inhabitants in our own lifetime. And with the speed this process is moving, we are very likely to see massive destruction within the next hundred years. Our only chance of slowing down the way of life as we know it, is to stop over populating the human race and the continuous pollution of the air and water we cannot survive without.
Since the first living creatures appeared on this planet, from the dinosaurs to the giant mammals just before the great Ice Age, to every type of civilization that has ruled the lands has in one way or the other vanished or gone extinct. Is it our turn next? Haven’t we learned from the past? Or has our growing greed and selfish way of living blinded us from the inevitable path we are heading towards?
I’m looking forward to any agreements or disagreements. Other beliefs and or solutions we as humans and the current rulers of our planet should inquire and hopefully investigate with serious urgency before we pass the point of no return?