The last baiji, mammoth, South China tiger, human?

Rahsaan 2021-10-20 17:23:14

When I wake up in the morning and look at my sleeping wife next to me, life is so warm. But the more this warm feeling, the more faintly sad I can feel. why?
A report I saw yesterday morning flashed in my mind. "Beijing Evening News" published a message about the Baiji Dolphin. The report said that after years of hard work, scientists announced that the Baiji dolphin may have become extinct. Related domestic scientific personnel have visited the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and some of the tributaries of the Yangtze River in a few years, but it is a pity that they have not found any traces of the Baiji Dolphin. This genie, known as the tax giant panda, who should be as smart as the dolphin, disappeared.
When reading this report, I was used to squatting in the toilet to complete the most important excretion work of the day. When I saw the news, I froze, so that when I got up, my legs were numb for a long time.
After reading the report, the first thing I thought of was the "Ice Age II" I saw in the first half of the year. When I watched the first part of "Ice Age", I took my niece to watch it. I remember it was at the Victory Cinema. Pretty pretty keeps laughing and giggling. The same is true for me, smiling unpretentiously, just like a child. But when watching "Ice Age II", even if the plot is hilarious, it is not as presumptuous as the previous episode. why? Thinking about it now, I might be worried about these prehistoric creatures and whether they can survive the flood caused by the melting of glaciers. Especially when the kind-hearted mammoth Manny was called the last mammoth by others.
Hollywood directors are always reluctant to make a blockbuster film into a total tragedy. They are always easy to bow to the secular aesthetics. Although there are more suspense than the superiors in the film, more thrilling plots, emotional plots, and even life and death plots, they finally gave us a happy ending. Manny, the kind-hearted mammoth, is not alone. On the road, he met the mammoth girl Eri who thought she was an opossum. If they are in a good relationship, they seem to have offspring. After avoiding the flood, they ran into groups of mammoths on the way. When I saw this plot, I took a sigh of relief.
However, the actual situation is that when humans are gradually becoming the masters of the world, the mammoths have died out. When human civilization is starting to climb, elephants have disappeared from many places, such as the Yangtze and Yellow River basins today. Today, with the expansion of the scope of human activities and the obsessive demand for fangs, the territory of elephants is constantly shrinking.
I really don't know the last mammoth, whether he is a man or a woman, walking on the vast grassland, but can't see the familiar figure, smell the smell of the same kind, and how does it feel to be cared by the lover? Perhaps even more frightening is that he saw the death of his partner and he was really helpless, or he was an emotional coward. When he saw humans rounding up his partner and parents, he just kept running and running away. , Full of horror, loneliness, self-blame... One thing that is certain is that the mood of the last mammoth is definitely not as good as the mammoth lovers Manny and Eri in "Ice Age II", even though Manny was in a bad mood at the time. But at least he was accompanied by prehistoric sloths and saber-toothed tigers, and the pair of friends who could gag would help him dispel his unhappiness.
What about the last Baiji Dolphin? Their eyesight is not good, and finding friends may only rely on shouting and smelling. The last Baiji Dolphin kept calling his partners and friends, listening to all the sound waves, searching for even the slightest possible clues. What did he (she) hear? The song of the Three Gorges Dam construction site? (Maybe the frequency is lower) The roar of machinery? Popping sound? The siren of the ship? The sound of the propeller? …Maybe all the smells are smelly and gasoline. The only thing he didn't get was the partner's information.
I don’t know if he uttered the last cry when he left this world! What is certain is that we didn't hear it, all we heard was the call for material desire from our own heart!
Who will be next? South China Tiger? There must be it, this population that relies on incest to reproduce, the inevitable result is extinction. In human society, even the most open West despise incest. But we have to use this sinful way to rescue or temporarily maintain the South China tiger population. What did people do? Eternal desire and ignorance destroy a population, and then? Forcing, deceiving or using high-tech methods such as artificial insemination to maintain their reproduction, no matter what kind of method is given, the word incest still cannot be bypassed!
What is a person? What is it? The devil?
Perhaps the South China Tiger is also lucky. The offspring born of incest either die quickly or have intellectual problems. What about loneliness and sadness...what
about us? What about us?
I think it is really happy to be able to stay with my wife every day, and to see so many similar people when I go out. It is really happy. I will never be the last person. Will not cry helplessly in the reinforced concrete jungle, looking for the same kind. I am not the last one.
On the way home yesterday, I met an old lady in her 40s. She asked me a question. Judging from her expression, she should be a person with a problematic mind. She asked me young man, do you think stock company speculation is considered a contribution to the national economy? I said it should be counted, my expression must be very strange at that time, very confused. She said that the stocks grew from 1300 to 2300 today, and she had no money so she did not gain. She said that she would like to seize this opportunity... I am very annoyed by her. If she is talking nonsense on the street because of the loss of her relatives, I will Sympathize with her, and despise such her. I said I don’t know anything about stocks. I only know that living a down-to-earth life is the most important thing. Live", after all, she is much older than me.
Obviously my words didn't work, she said again. Anyway, I'm idle now... I don't care about her, change the lights, and I speed up and ride away.
money! money! Whether it is paper, electronic symbols, or the original metal currency, I hope that the last person in the world will not be looking for money in the streets, not the same kind.

Postscript: After reading my article, friends who have read this article will watch "Ice Age II". Whether you are watching children, elders, friends, or lovers with you, don’t forget to tell them that many animals in this world are going extinct because of us. Endless material desire. It's not that mammoths can eventually return to the group like in the movie, but more often they die in solitude.

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Ice Age: The Meltdown quotes

  • Sid: [the group has just escaped from Cretaceous and Maelstrom, the two sea reptiles] What in the animal kingdom was "that"?

    Diego: I don't know. But from now on, land safe, water... not safe.

  • Manfred: I knew it! I knew I couldn't be the only one!

    Ellie: Me too! Everybody falls out of the tree sometimes. They just won't admit it!