Disconnected

 When I look at the world I feel disconnected. I’m more concerned about what directly affects me and I forget about how almost everything I do as well as what everyone else does indirectly affects the world in some way, whether for good or for bad. It irritates me when the weather isn’t perfect and sometimes I just wish it would never rain again and if I could turn it off I would. Most of the time though it doesn’t even cross my mind how important the rain is to nature and also how important it is for me even if it is indirectly. The world needs the rain to flourish, the rain provides the water that plants need to survive which is what keeps all the great forests in the world and all the rain forests that are home to thousands of animal species alive and healthy and the forests are what provide the Earth with oxygen that keeps us and all the other living species on Earth alive. If I were to just turn off the rain I would be killing the Earth.

I feel that our whole society is disconnected from the world. Humans our ruining the Earth. We pollute the water that provides homes to millions of fish and supplies tons and tons of plants and animals with the water they need to survive and us polluting it is causing tons of fish to die or have serious health problems which happens to pretty much any of the plants or animals that drink the polluted water too. Humans also cut down acres and acres of forest land each year in order to urbanize and collect timber and to provide area for large scale cash crops, not even caring about the animal families that they are running out of their homes. About 18 million acres are mowed down from deforestation every year and half of the worlds tropical forests have already been cleared. Its getting out of hand.

We as a society need to know our role on this planet and realize that the things we do to it are ruining it. We need to appreciate what we have and not take it lightly. We need to be more conservative and try and save paper when we can, run less water when its not needed, appreciate the the beauty in nature, and maybe learn to enjoy the rain a little and go out for a stroll on a rainy day just for the hell of it.