Earthling - "I would like to see the world with emotion"

Annetta 2022-10-29 12:06:06

"Though they are not of our species, they do not belong to us. They belong to another country, but are trapped in the web of life and time with mankind, and experience the glory and misery of the earth together." - Henry Beston

as Bill Gay At the TED conference in California in 2009, he released a group of "live mosquitoes" to the 1,000 upstarts who paid $7,500 for admission, to emphasize that the research and development of "anti-malarial drugs" is more important than "research on the treatment of baldness". , we do need to be "bited" to remind ourselves that we are on a planet that is moaning in pain. For other species, human beings have an overwhelming advantage to exercise absolute domination, but there is no kindness and tolerance of the king. To a certain extent, the various diseases caused by human beings today due to excess nutrition and insufficient exercise are based on other species. humiliating domination.

Assuming that human beings are the CEO of "Earth Corporation", our founder God really should have fired this very disappointing employee:
Over the past 100 years, human beings have been losing ground on most important issues: the decline of faith , two world-class wars, slow development of medical technology, difficult breakthroughs in aviation technology, and only made outstanding achievements in "species extinction".

Unfortunately, God still has no plans for us to leave or change to another planetary company, so I deeply agree with Peter Singer that every planetary company employee should watch this documentary. First, be shocked at what kind of deprivation and cruelty our elegant life is built on, and then reflect on how many resources we have appropriated and wasted. Abandoning unnecessary, may be the beginning of happiness.

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    title card: earth-ling n. - One who inhabits the earth.

    Narrator: Since we all inhabit the earth, we are all considered earthlings. There is no sexism, racism, or speciesism in the term 'earthling'. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm- or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and human alike.

  • Narrator: It is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by 'speciesism'. By analogy with racism and sexism, speciesism is a prejudice or attitude or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.