**Stream of thought, unedited**
The earth feeds itself, through itself. It’s many systems of plant and wildlife, clouds, wind all create a closed system. For many thousands of years, we lived among them, not harming Mother Earth’s ways. After industrialization, we started a journey that would lead to the eventual demise of our habitat, if gone unchecked. The earth will change as all things will, but the greatest change its scariest residents need to take is to look after it, or else we will all go under. And this grand experiment of life and the possibility of it will end. The likelihood of an earth being created as wonderful as ours is so slim, the universe so vast. We must protect our ability to serve earth and one another. The answer is not another planet, though continual space travel must happen. Our answer must be this planet we live on.
We have made such a mark on the earth, we have become parasites that have change it so heavily. We have tied our actions so closely to the health of the world that we are now the only ones who can fix it. No alien, or deus ex machina or anything fantastical is going to save this. We are. We must. We have to, or the beauty of the earth will fall. And if there are any other form of life out there, we will never be forgiven for destroying such a beautiful, unique, diverse and ultimate creation like planet earth.
We are but a speck of dust on the road of time. Earth’s life span will not be defined by one animals destruction of it. It will be defined by how it was revived and set back on course. That’s how we must see the narrative. Not doom and gloom. We acknowledge the problem. Now we must act. Grief and shame and guilt are not working actions, they are apathetic to the greater good. The greater good can no longer apply to just the other people in our secluded communities within communities; the greater good must apply to the entire earth.
Selfishness and greed have ruined our purpose as Shepard’s of the land. We became its ruler, its owners, it’s conquerers, then git busy worrying about someone else having more of something that ultimately doesn’t belong to them. People had long standing beliefs that were directly tied to the earth and its importance. Then orthodox religions came along and tried to answer the questions we had, and some angry people came up with reasons to control themselves and others through a ritualistic passing on of guilt, shame, othering and bastardization/commodification of actually beautiful and necessary thoughts. Religion should not be about passing a bucket around to pay money to believe in god/whatever figure head(s) you believe in. The messenger should not be shot, but slowly taken out of the equation. No one actually speaks to these gods. If there are, then they carry a weight with them, knowing that they created the monster that will end all life on possibly the only thing to have life in the entire universe. If their are gods, they have lost control years ago. If they never had control and were merely symbols, ideas to help calm a worried spirit and bring people together, then they are a wonderful idea through time. But the the ones that do not focus on the whole, the earth as well as humans, is inherently wrong. The only beliefs that stand should have an understanding of the necessity of balance in the world of all things, and that we must take care of our one true home. Earth.
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