The Coming Extinction: Humanity As Devil

As with most horrific truths, the content presented here is unpleasant. So if you want to be happy, stop reading.

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Half of wild animals on Earth have died in the past forty years. Much of this is a result of habitat destruction for agriculture or poaching. Either for development, or through the circumstances that poverty demands for survival. Hence, the wholesale death of wildlife often happens in underdeveloped countries.

Their economies, controlled and leeched by global imperialist powers, have little options for people to survive. The destruction of wildlife is a kind of ‘outsourcing’ from the rich overdeveloped zones to the underdeveloped zones. Corrupt governments and sociopathic business interests pay no heed at the murder of wildlife in the name of 'development'.

“Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2].” –Center for Biological Diversity

This paper states that around 59 per cent of the world’s largest carnivores and 60 per cent of the world’s largest herbivores are threatened with extinction. By 2100, animals like rhinos, tigers and gorillas will all be dead.

In the past ten years, 2/3 of African elephants have been killed. Who buys this fucking ivory? Rich Chinese people, often purchased in Vietnam.

I’ve seen it. There is a museum in Guangzhou showcasing this bullshit. They have engravings of elephant ivory that you can buy. They claim it’s a ‘rich Chinese cultural tradition’. If the CCP were at all communist in practice, they could stop the importation of ivory overnight. To be fair, they are making efforts. But we don’t need baby steps. The practice of poaching needs to stop. Immediately. African nations need functioning, green (sustainable) and red (communist) economies so the basis of for poaching is eliminated. An impossible idea under capitalism, an impossible feat in a world where we do nothing but consume and destroy life.

Think about this. Elephants bury their dead. Possibly, they communicate through seismic vibrations in their feet. They have the largest brains of any land animal. They display ‘human’ behaviors including grief, mimicry, altruism and cooperation. They use tools.

We murder them and steel their tusks to be transformed into gaudy investments for rich people.

Why the hell would intelligent alien life both to communicate with us?

The same goes for pangolins. Their populations in Asia are so decimated from being the world’s most poached animal, that the practice has moved to Africa. Their scales are considered medicinal. People who believe in mostly bullshit Chinese medicine use the dust for ‘medicinal’ (bullshit) purposes.

Animals are brought to extinction because of human ignorance.

(Obligatory: there are plenty of people in China who think TCM is bullshit and prefer actual scientifically proven medical procedures. Anything that TCM is effective at is called medicine. Korea also has its own ‘traditional’ medicine. Most Koreans think its a scam and prefer ‘medicine’ instead.

I’m not dismissing the entire history of medicine outside a narrow Western viewpoint. I’m pointing to the fact that ‘traditional’ and ‘alternative’ medicines are generally scams sold by snake oil salesmen.)

The fact remains that humanity has nothing to show for itself aside from destroying the only planet it has, and destroying the only other forms of life its come across. Capitalism is to blame, as its the system that feeds off this death. But, our species created capitalism. It isn't something outside us. It's a monster, but its our monster. And as more species go extinct in the name of development, profit and favorable business climates, their eternal silence will be stained on our hands.

If animals believed in god, we'd be the devil.

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Article #1:Anthropocene
Article #2:Plastic As Fecal Matter
Article #3:Land Submergence
Article #4:Humanity As Devil