'Your Planet Needs You! Unite to Combat Climate Change' (2009 World Environment Day slogan)
SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!
SAVE THE PLANET!
Care for it or not, the earth will ruthlessly wipe out an entire population in seconds.
Treacherous? No. Nature’s signs are seldom unforeseen, but often - regrettably, just casually ignored. We all take comfort from our seeming invulnerability. “Look at the pyramids of Egypt” they say, still standing after all these thousands of years, its presence magnificently imposing.
But the earth is patient. And it is also relentless.
In our so called calamities, we realize that we and everything we’ve built are all at the mercy of the great forces of this planet. We are no different from a colony of bacteria on the kitchen sink. Sooner or later, down the drain we all go tripping.
Long after humans are gone, the earth will continue to exist on its own terms, the way it has done for millennia.
The earth doesn't even know we’re here.
The earth, the environment doesn’t need saving.
You see, it is us, creatures from the genus Homo, bipedal primates with a misplaced pride who really needs saving.
AG
