“WE are destroying the planet. WE are a cancer.”
A Comment from Linda McKellar
Posted May 7th, 2019 on Niagara At Large
A Brief Foreword from Doug Draper –
The following commentary by Linda McKellar, a Fort Erie, Ontario resident and retired nurse who spent her adult life doing her best to save peoples’ lives, is a what I regard as an understandable response to news from the United Nations (posted here this May 6th) that destructive human activities are leading more rapidly to the extinction of other species of life on this planet.
I am re-posting this commentary on Niagara At Large as a stand-alone piece because, I must confess, there are many times these days when I find myself coming to the conclusion that other life on this planet might be better off if humans were gone.
Sudan, the world’s last northern rhinoceros – a species that has lived on this planet at least as long as humans – died last year,but you may not have heard about it. Donald Trump’s moronic tweets and Doug Ford’s promises for cheaper gas and one-buck beet received more media attention than this did.
Let’s face it, we humans are the most destructive species on the planet and members of my generation – the oh, so self-absorbed, all-consuming and wasteful baby boomers – have been among the worst.
A dispr0portionate number of people my age and older voted for Doug Ford in Ontario and Donald Trump in the United States, knowing full well that neither one of them take climate change or the need to protect our environment seriously. In fact, may offer cheers of support when these politicians and others like them tear environmental protection programs apart.
So maybe other life on this planet, if there is any by the time we get through, would be better off if we humans were gone.
Now here is Linda McKellar’s comment on it –
A video I saw of a starving, skeletal polar bear with its skin hanging, struggling to stand, made me physically ill. Humans need to become extinct.
WE are destroying the planet. WE are a cancer. We have skewed the balance of nature.
We selectively cull animals that we find inconvenient or because we want their horns to make aphrodisiacs (ridiculous), destroy their habitats and change the climate destroying their life cycles.
The problem is that, in the process of causing our own extinction, we will take most life on the planet with us. Maybe a few bacteria and viruses will survive.
This is beyond politics. This is survival.
Not just ours but all life. SHAME on anyone who makes it a political debate. This should be THE primary issue worldwide. Not money and jobs.
What good is a job if you’re dead? Can you eat money?
Whine about a carbon tax. Whine about pipelines. Whine about everything. WE THE PEOPLE need to act.
Humans have created the problem and only we can solve it. I have no descendants but likely care more about the future than many who do.
The human race often disgusts me. Enjoy the future boys and girls.
I’ll be dead.
(Click on the screen below to watch.)
Linda McKellar is a Niagara, Ontario resident and retired nurse who remains a strong advocate for quality, universal health care. She is also an avid follower of public affairs who frequently shares here views on Niagara At Large.
The story in Niagara At Large about the United Nations report on species extinction that inspired Linda McKellar to share the comment above can be read by clicking on – https://niagaraatlarge.com/2019/05/07/un-issues-devastating-report-on-rapid-extinction-of-life-on-this-planet/ .
What other species on the earth would dismember a creature and leave it to bleed to death for shark fin soup? Sad to say, Canada still tolerates this.
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