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In The Name Of Greed
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I'm so very angry with what is happening to our beautiful planet that I simply had to let it out....

Gone - are the days when we could breathe the air without consequence, drink the water without processing it first, enjoy the plentiful bounty our pristine oceans offered up before we poisoned them, discover the joy in every creature that makes up this planet before we destroyed them all! Why would future generations want to remember us? Repercussions – they are what our children will be forced to reckon with! Everything we’ve ever touched has either been contaminated or destroyed, and we did it without conscience in our quest for riches. We cannot live forever, and we cannot take it with us, so was it worth it? Evil – lives in the heart of every human being! But it was always our choice to let it rise to the surface and consume us. We were the ones who brutally beat our precious Mother Earth into submission! But what did we really accomplish? Each – and every one of us are responsible for what we will NOT leave behind for future generations! We will not leave them clean air, drinkable water, sustainable food resources, or a planet that will survive! Our legacy will be a dying planet that will one day succumb to our horrible abuse! How’s that for a legacy? Does – anyone really care? Are we so blinded by greed and power that nothing else in the universe matters? Do we really believe we’re that important? We are not the ones who will pay the ultimate price for our destructive ways. Why don’t we ask the children what they’d like us to leave behind for them? Maybe in their innocence we will find the only answers that make sense! © Annabel Sheila

Reviewed by John Domino

Reviewed on May 15, 2010

I care! Others care! Politicians beware!

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors

We do have a tendency to be our own worst enemy. Patrick

Reviewed by Maggie Elizabeth (Reader)

Reviewed on May 14, 2010

Humans are like a virus on this planet and we destroy everything we touch. Mother Earth will eventually heal herself of the plague that we are. Nature will reclaim its own.
I love this write and it echoes my sentiments exactly.
Thanks for writing this.

Reviewed by Mark Lichterman

I read what you have written. I studied and and digested what you have written and agree with you... agree with you 100%, Annabel, but there is truly no answer. We all leave our homes and get into our cars, so there is and will alwas be a need for gasoline. Oil products are used in hundreds of ways that we use daily in hundreds of ways. Living in Southern California I know there is and has been for the last fifty years dozens of measures that have been taken in an effort to clean our air. Head east, towards Palm Springs, or north towards San Franscisco and there are huge forests of energy producing windmills. As far as our earth goes, it's not only up to us, but Russia and China also and I do not hear of China and Russia doing too much to clean our planet. I do agree with you, Annabel... I agree with you 100%. So sorry, though, and shamefully I cannot see a realistic way to reverse what is happening.
Your friend, Mark

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Are we so blinded by greed and power that nothing else in the universe matters? Do we really believe we�re that important?

Sadly, for most of us today, I believe the answer to those two questions seems to be 'yes.' And it will very sadly be our future generations who will suffer the horrendous consequences.