In the previous post, I showed one side of money – how capitalism is an integral tool used to raise our standard of living.
Originally, I had scheduled this post to be about the evils of capitalism. However, I am not argue. Some people have made it their goal in life to maintain or increase their capital advantage over others. Argueing this point is like telling people to change their life goal.
Instead, I want to write about wildlife. During my lifetime, the world population has doubled. To feed all of us and make a life for all of us, an increasingly stark world has emerged before us. The existence that livestock experience, for example, is staggering. Measured by weight, or biomass, wild animals today only account for four percent of mammals on Earth, with humans (36 percent) and livestock (60 percent) making up the rest.
During my lifetime, the human population doubled, while the numbers of wildlife reduced to less than one half. The principal cause of this drop is deforestation.
About 50 years ago, I fell in love with a small creek. It ran in a small wooded area of the suburb where I grew up. A classmate of mine, whose father was a lawyer, was able to protect that small wooded area against development. As you could guess, that did not last long. That area has recently been developed. And the constant tide of the development of the Earth is never ending.
It is not acceptable that a sixth extinction event occur during my lifetime.