Unfortunately people are fundamentally selfish and expect there to always be something “in it for them” when it comes to conservation. People like saving pandas because then they can go see them at the zoo and post their pictures online. Other considerations are pretty secondary.
You have a good point, something I didn't think about. We’ll have to think of ways for them to care about non-charismatic things. Whatever it takes to get them preserved 😀
Nature is not for pleasure, it is to teach you what peace is and that you cannot by nature be neutral or submissive or blind. If you truly feel the existence and meaning of nature, you must create a basis for peace by changing yourself and the people, to change the banking and capitalist system into a unified social system, an ideal for all: justice, value, fair distribution of wealth, equal sharing of opportunities, etc. Life is to realize the ideal, to know it, to be for it, to live for it, to sacrifice everything for it.
A really thought-provoking piece. Part of me is thinking about how, yes, we have to make choices ourselves in where we put our energy and financial support, but also in how we try to influence others to do the same. I'm also thinking that it seems deeply embedded in human thinking (at least now) to think of the world in terms of species, while science increasingly tells us that we live in complex systems, and that the health of the whole system is the best hope for any individuals or species within it.
Unfortunately people are fundamentally selfish and expect there to always be something “in it for them” when it comes to conservation. People like saving pandas because then they can go see them at the zoo and post their pictures online. Other considerations are pretty secondary.
You have a good point, something I didn't think about. We’ll have to think of ways for them to care about non-charismatic things. Whatever it takes to get them preserved 😀
Nature is not for pleasure, it is to teach you what peace is and that you cannot by nature be neutral or submissive or blind. If you truly feel the existence and meaning of nature, you must create a basis for peace by changing yourself and the people, to change the banking and capitalist system into a unified social system, an ideal for all: justice, value, fair distribution of wealth, equal sharing of opportunities, etc. Life is to realize the ideal, to know it, to be for it, to live for it, to sacrifice everything for it.
That’s a very deep insight. Thanks for sharing. I agree that we’re fallling short of true care for nature and our mother Earth
A really thought-provoking piece. Part of me is thinking about how, yes, we have to make choices ourselves in where we put our energy and financial support, but also in how we try to influence others to do the same. I'm also thinking that it seems deeply embedded in human thinking (at least now) to think of the world in terms of species, while science increasingly tells us that we live in complex systems, and that the health of the whole system is the best hope for any individuals or species within it.
That’s a great point. Indeed, we need to better educate people to see nature as interdependent ecosystem, not a collection of cute pandas and sloths 🦥