We reserve great honor and reverence for the massive losses inflicted upon human beings by other, often sinister, human beings.
Museums for the Holocaust. Memorials for genocide. Statues for war criminals...cough...heroes.
An utter infatuation with death some would say.
Will the same honor be felt for the loss of polar bears?
Will we build monuments and hold candle vigils for these fallen soldiers, victims of an "imaginary" catastrophe.
I think not and that saddens me.
I will remember.
Museums for the Holocaust. Memorials for genocide. Statues for war criminals...cough...heroes.
An utter infatuation with death some would say.
Will the same honor be felt for the loss of polar bears?
Will we build monuments and hold candle vigils for these fallen soldiers, victims of an "imaginary" catastrophe.
I think not and that saddens me.
I will remember.
And so will he.
"Fuck all of you gas-guzzling hominids. Consumerists, pssssh!"
-Poppy the Polar Bear
"Let no species disappear without public notice. If our ways of life are going to destroy infinitudes of lives, let us at least do so knowingly, and grieve for the terrible loss. Evolution is an infinitely branching tree. Each branch branches again, and branches again, budding and branching, a beautiful and endless complexity. Killing off a species not only wipes that creature off the earth forever; it also lops off the budding branch, eliminating for all time the infinite variation that might have grown from that limb. This is a loss literally beyond imagining. It is also a loss that is largely invisible."
-Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson (Trinity University Press, 2010).
"Let no species disappear without public notice. If our ways of life are going to destroy infinitudes of lives, let us at least do so knowingly, and grieve for the terrible loss. Evolution is an infinitely branching tree. Each branch branches again, and branches again, budding and branching, a beautiful and endless complexity. Killing off a species not only wipes that creature off the earth forever; it also lops off the budding branch, eliminating for all time the infinite variation that might have grown from that limb. This is a loss literally beyond imagining. It is also a loss that is largely invisible."
-Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson (Trinity University Press, 2010).
