When do we say STOP to it? by Barbora Misakova

Nature suffer. We are pretending that we don't know about it, that we can't see it, but the truth is that nature gives us more than evident signals. More cyclones and hurricanes, more people with asthma and strong allergy symptoms, more animals dying uselessly. I really feel like we were incapable to feel. To feel any empathy to the others. Not only humans. Almost every day we can hear on the TV or radio news about mass death of some species. Fishes or penguins. Dolphins or whales stuck in the sand banks. Pollution, destruction, noise, smell, chaos. And what about us? We are just asking ourselves what happened? And from time to time I have a strong urge to shout: “We happened! It's us!” Spoiled human kind with its endless and selfish demands. We just want the most comfortable houses and cars. And why should we drive one car when we can buy two? I am shouting: We just happened! And those weaker and smaller ones can be only doing their best to go through this all. Hundreds of gulls and fishes drenched in petroleum. Even bigger number of those little ones who won't survive. Hundreds of baby penguins found in Brazil. There are different opinions why these little penguins died and why is still more and more of them dying. Some experts think that redundant fishing force penguins to swim further from shore and so there is bigger possibility they will be caught by strong ocean currents. As they are too small and cannot swim as well as bigger ones, they just drown. Other experts believe that the biggest problem is with penguins' immunity which is still weaker and weaker. They blame pollution which leaves them vulnerable to funguses and bacteria. Some experts maintain that global warming affects everything. It affects ocean currents and creating cyclones, what after all have the great affect on the seas themselves. They are too rough, even for those who live there from their birth.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080718/ap_on_sc/brazil_dead_penguins;_ylt=AsRfycNXRc5gqwcTmh8sJkms0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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