Ethan+O’s+2016+OpEd+Article

What right do we possibly have which entitles us, as humans, to rise above the very planet that we were born, the very planet which nurtures all life - as far as we know - and defile it with our polluting machines and sprawling cities. We are destroying not only the beauty of our original home, nature, but also massacring millions of innocent animals which have no say whatsoever as to this wild conflagration of the industrialization of humanity, all for what? The ultimate tool of corruption, invented and used solely for the benefit, or perhaps mor e accurately, for the detriment of humankind.

Oil companies ruin our oceans and slaughter the native life in the area all to supply us with products such as gasoline for our cars which we, in turn, emit into the air, slowly killing ourselves as well as everything else on this planet through global warming and pollution.

Lumber companies tear down massive forests as if they were mowing their lawn in order to supply the demand for wood to build massive houses and other unnecessary goods for which to spoil ourselves with, such as the copious amounts of paper (187 billion pounds per year in the United States alone) which is often used and then thrown away shortly afterwards

We are tearing down ecosystems that could last for millions of years in order to turn them into products we use for such a short period of time. Ecosystems which have harbored animals who have maintained the balance of nature as long as life has existed, a balance that we have destroyed, demolished with our chainsaws and harvesters, poisoned with our fume puffing cars, and completely wasted and disrespected by us as consumers.