Earth Day Problems

The Earth is dying slowly, and we humans are the main source of the problem. We throw trash to the streets, to the ocean, to our own Mother Earth. We are what we do, what we are, how we act, how we respond. The problem right now is that we don´t knwo how to appreciate what we really have, nature. We are slowly killing it, polluting what is not ours to pollute.

Yesterday, I was walking and I saw the circus that arrived to town. This circus, as many others today, had animals. Animals such as elephants, tigers, horses, animals that shouldn´t be where they are right now. Animals that were born with the right to be free, but were taken by us humans. As I kept on thinking, it is not only the circus´ fault they have those animals, but also our fault for letting them having them. Imagine a tiger, living in the wild. Imagine him watching over his family, having a good time. When all of a suddent, here comes the human species. The only animal on Earth that is fully capable of annihilating other species, without even wincing. The one that can massacre a whole lot of animals, and knowing it is wrong but still doing it. The question is, why? Power. Power is what we all want today. The presidents, governors, teachers, even us as individuals. When we gain something we want, we insantly want more and more. Is that correct? It is not correct, but is isn´t incorrect, either. It is just how the human species has evolved. The problem is that we take it too far. Too far that we can even kill someone else for that power. Inocent people, innocent animals. Children that die in war, what had a family, friends, maybe even a date. Animals that had a family, a group of the same species who they could rely to. But what does it really matter when it comes to the fact that we come to detroy their happiness? We come and go, taking all their rights away from. These innocent living beings, that could never see their family again. Is this what we really want? We are attacking Mother Earth, destroying her. Is this the correct thing?

Today, we humans are killing what gave us birth in the first place. It´s not one problem that were enlisted on moodle that causes all the damage to the Earth. It´s us what is affecting the Earth the most. These are the option Mr. Picketts gave to us: *vanishing species.
*overflowing landfills.
*air pollution.
*rain forest destruction.
*water pollution.
*energy depletion.
Really? All of this are caused by us humans, don´t you think so? So what is the REAL problem here? Us.

Life is not about what people who seek power do, it´s about what we, who don´t have that power, do. It´s not about the government donating one billion dollars to a certain coorporation to make a change, but about the government making the change on its own. If you think of it, what has the government really done? The biggest projects have been made by the citizens who do care. The ones that want a change in the world. For example, last weekend there was a project in Puerto Vallarta that involved both the British American School and the American School of Puerto Vallarta. These two schools came together and both cleaned the Cuale River, a really pulluted river in Puerto Vallarta. The sad thing about this is that, even though a lot of trash was picked up, even more has been thrown at this moment and nobody does anything about it. The problem is people don´t think before they act, and when they do act they dont have a conscience to see if what they did was wrong or not.

It´s not that we need money to make an idea bigger, it´s other people we need. More people that can realize all the damage we are making to our own Earth, our only planet. Of you Googled satellite pictures of the Earth from some years ago and now, you would see that throwing a Coke bottle to the street does make a change. Any bottle, paper, spit that gets thrown to the ground makes a change. The Earth is what we want it to be, but remember, actions speak louder than words. If you want to see a cleaner Earth, clean it. If you want to see a better Earth, prove it.