Welcome to my Earth blog. I will be posting weekly on the effect our species has and had on our once beautiful planet. For years, humans have exploited the resources of our planet, completely neglecting the problems these actions caused: we have filled the air that surrounds us with harming particles and gases, we cut down 1 and a half acres of forest every second, we are constantly ripping out resources from our planet, that we very well know won't just reappear. Why you ask? Because we are too self-indulging to think about the future, too naive to believe that leaving that light on won't make much difference, too greedy to spend that little extra on an electric car and most importantly too ignorant of the consequences of our actions. The problem is, all those "qualities" are human.
Dear reader, I recently discovered a little story that demonstrates the insanity of our actions really well, here goes: Imagine you were in a spaceship, flying through space with a limited amount of food, water and energy. And then you just decided to put all the food, water and batteries into the airlock and open it.When Earth received the spaceship's final log, including videos of what you did, what would they think? Well, they'd think you'd gone mad, and frankly, so would anyone. So please explain why the human race is doing the same stupid thing to our much bigger spaceship?! If there was some life out there in the deepest reaches of space, and they came upon our planet, what would they think? .,. Exactly. If you need to convince someone of the existence of climate change or explain what it is, then that should help you. In other news, Donald Trump has opened his first Coal mine in Pennsylvania, confirming that we should have got to him before he got to our planet. A