Today is the third and last day of Endangered Species Day. There are many good websites to read about the danger of extinction that so many of our species are facing on Planet Earth today. Google them and choose one as your animal to support. The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will most certainly threaten many others. The brown pelican has been taken off the endangered list for only a short time. Now environmentalists are fearful this might put them back on the list ~ or worse yet extinguish them for good. Their habitats are being devastated by the oil.
I bring this up not as a gloom and doom presentation but as a reminder for everyone to be cognizant of the horrendous results of one of the oil companies' lack of concern for the damage their search for oil can bring about.
As most of you now realize, I am a firm believer that every living creature on this planet is connected by a single Life Force (I think of that source as God). The more one recognizes this fact, the more one becomes sensitive to the plight of all who suffer. Just as we can empathize and open our hearts to compassionate giving to the human victims of acts of nature such as tsunamis and earthquakes and hurricanes and tornadoes, it is hard not to feel the pain of living creatures on land
and in the sea when we witness their being suffocated by the oil that is covering them as a result of not an act of nature, but from an act of man. These are not "just animals" as some would say to justify despoiling the planet for the sake of "man's needs" (in other words, to line their pockets). These creatures are "us". What would happen to mankind if we finally kill off all the animals and the habitats that nourish and shelter them? No question about it, if we survived at all, the world would definitely consist of nothing but vegetarians!
and in the sea when we witness their being suffocated by the oil that is covering them as a result of not an act of nature, but from an act of man. These are not "just animals" as some would say to justify despoiling the planet for the sake of "man's needs" (in other words, to line their pockets). These creatures are "us". What would happen to mankind if we finally kill off all the animals and the habitats that nourish and shelter them? No question about it, if we survived at all, the world would definitely consist of nothing but vegetarians!
By thinking on this and raising our awareness we will also be assisting humankind in reaching a critical mass of consciousness that will lead to a more perfect existence on this earth. Our next leap in evolution. We must quickly change together as a species or watch the world as we know it die slowly but surely, starting with the most innocent of living things.Think on these things..
Love,
Marilyn
This from a friend who is an animal lover and Humane Society volunteer:
ReplyDelete"MAN ONLY SEEKS TO DESTROY..AND THIS SPILL IS TERRIBLE....I LIVED NEAR THE COAST AND MOST OF THE WORKERS WE MET WERE DRUGGIES..AND MADE MANY ERRORS..LAST YEAR 539 LEAKS WERE MADE BUT PRESS DID NOT REPORT IT...TO H*** WITH PALIN"..DOT S.