Deforestation & The Amazon

I think the main issue is human population growth. It is a major urbanization instigator that is affecting our landscape and natural resources.

I think human consumption is driving industrialization of wild land for farming purposes. This cannot be sustainable as we need a balance of nature and inhabitable space for a healthy planet.

I think we live in a world lost in consumerism waiting for a managerial mandate to pull us out of the hole we have dug with lies and greed. It is a tragedy of massive proportions that was inevitable with human expansion spreading like a disease in every direction that will give it momentum.

I believe we will succumb to nature in the future as we learn to co-inhabit more sustainably. This means we need to manage our lives better with thought and minimal belongings. The more we have the more we want.

I think the Amazon is a vital, economical, man-made and mandatory eco-system that will breathe life again, if given the chance to recover in time. De-forestation is damaging in many ways to a rainforest. It can change an ancient eco-system teaming with life to atmospheric patterns that climatise our earth, lost in moments of greed.

I think we, as a global human collective should fight to maintain our natural wonders. I believe in what’s right for the indigenous people of the Amazon and the survival of species precious to this eco-system. It is important to give Mayan people the right to their land in aspects of species, plant and animal that need protection from farming and mining.

I really struggle to talk about this because of Mayan tribal warnings. It is a forest of importance to the indigenous people, they want the farmers out. I can see their lost civilization breathing life into the Amazon as warring tribes that inhabited the rainforest long ago. I think we need to understand the ways of the tribal people to know how we can stop the degradation of the Amazon. It is a sacred place where people were sacrificed by the Mayans. It holds spiritual energy that permeates it’s plant life and runs through its rivers. It is a living, breathing ancient mother of the Mayans that needs protection. By respecting it’s laws of preservation we can save it’s roots.