Earth’s Cries Fall on Humanity’s Deaf Ear

Since time immemorial, human beings have been the major pathogens against Earth’s well-being. Humans have been the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas excretion from the combustion of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.

The human race's inquisitive and curious nature has brought about technological advancements that have accelerated the exploration, extraction, refining, and combustion of fossil fuels in power plants built on the already hived-off forests.

Human activities have contributed to climate change, with the earth getting hotter and hotter. Mother Nature has hit back hard with natural calamities like floods, heat waves, melting ice caps, rising sea levels, hurricanes, cyclones, and snowstorms, all in efforts to imply that something is indeed wrong. Have we paid enough attention to this?

We have taken this injury a notch by continuing to tamper with its sustainability tools like forests and water sources. For instance, deforestation has become the norm of the day, all in attempts to meet demands for utilities like firewood, paper manufacturing, and even luxuries.

Oceans have not been spared. Overfishing, plastic pollution, and habitat destruction are just but a tip of the iceberg. Global warming has prompted hastened permafrost thawing, which is destroying the globe’s ability to reflect the sun’s radiation.

Carbon sinks, which facilitate the absorption of carbon from the atmosphere, are also at risk. By rearing livestock, we have endangered one of earth’s main carbon pools; vegetation, by destroying rainforests.

It is therefore factual to mention that human existence is toxic to the health of earth. Despite being intensively knowledgeable on ways of mitigating the harm, we sadly throw caution to the wind. We forget that we feel the sting of the planet’s reaction most.