As the last remaining Sumatran tiger would glance up through the wounded canopy of Indonesian forests, he would under perhaps with a certain incredulity as to what happened to the green cover that had so beautifully protected him for as long as he could remember.
And mind you, tiger memories are not merely those which he learns in this world, tigers like all animals are blessed with a certain disposition, neural pathways and millions of years of evolutionary history that has allowed them to get a deep, almost ethereal link with the natural environment in which they live and are intrinsic product of. Deep down, it knows in its bones that this wasn't meant to be.
Its not that tigers dropped suddenly from the sky, in a quirk of creationism. Tigers are perhaps as much a part of the jungle and its lifecycle as the trees, the plants and the climate. Their development right from a single amoeba to a specialised, differentiated animal fine tuned to its very last atom to adapt in its environment is a marvel of heredity, chance and the forces of nature at work. Its recreation in the later history of this entire universe might not even be possible as far as we know. So, when this last tiger dies, it takes with itself a very fundamental force of nature with itself.
But then, no one is interested in the poor tiger who can barely afford the high rates of rent that “nature based” properties nowadays command. Had it a bare idea of the process at work, he might have hunted some prized goats and brought them in order to reach some kind of compromise. Sadly, the goats too have been hunted quite a while ago. It must sell its own fur to ensure its survival, quite ironical if you think over it.
World leaders are considerably annoyed with the economic downturn to give their sympathies to the striped cat.The Warsaw meet that concluded recently, gave a very fuzzy outcome. The fact that the world cannot come to any conclusion regarding the emission reduction plans gave a rude albeit expected shock to environmentalists all over the world. In this world of competitive economics, no quarter can be left. Jungles will keep on burning, tigers will burn bright only in the poems that we have. Sympathy, love and empathy haven’t been effectively monetised as of yet, so we cannot expect these from the world leaders.
At the present rate of human growth, the resources that we consume are going to be more difficult to come by, especially for those who cannot afford to buy them. The animals are going to be the most affected in the global war for extracting the last drops from the fields of earth.
Environmental protection or conserving wildlife at the cost of human settlements or potential real estate gains has started becoming more and more difficult to ignore in the global downturn of economies. It has to be noted however that the economies will recover one day but the environmental scars can never fully heal.
A time might come when only the humans are left. The only trace of the animals are their stories and the genetic materials stored in museums which is used to clone some animals for a weekly show.
And mind you, tiger memories are not merely those which he learns in this world, tigers like all animals are blessed with a certain disposition, neural pathways and millions of years of evolutionary history that has allowed them to get a deep, almost ethereal link with the natural environment in which they live and are intrinsic product of. Deep down, it knows in its bones that this wasn't meant to be.
Its not that tigers dropped suddenly from the sky, in a quirk of creationism. Tigers are perhaps as much a part of the jungle and its lifecycle as the trees, the plants and the climate. Their development right from a single amoeba to a specialised, differentiated animal fine tuned to its very last atom to adapt in its environment is a marvel of heredity, chance and the forces of nature at work. Its recreation in the later history of this entire universe might not even be possible as far as we know. So, when this last tiger dies, it takes with itself a very fundamental force of nature with itself.
But then, no one is interested in the poor tiger who can barely afford the high rates of rent that “nature based” properties nowadays command. Had it a bare idea of the process at work, he might have hunted some prized goats and brought them in order to reach some kind of compromise. Sadly, the goats too have been hunted quite a while ago. It must sell its own fur to ensure its survival, quite ironical if you think over it.
World leaders are considerably annoyed with the economic downturn to give their sympathies to the striped cat.The Warsaw meet that concluded recently, gave a very fuzzy outcome. The fact that the world cannot come to any conclusion regarding the emission reduction plans gave a rude albeit expected shock to environmentalists all over the world. In this world of competitive economics, no quarter can be left. Jungles will keep on burning, tigers will burn bright only in the poems that we have. Sympathy, love and empathy haven’t been effectively monetised as of yet, so we cannot expect these from the world leaders.
At the present rate of human growth, the resources that we consume are going to be more difficult to come by, especially for those who cannot afford to buy them. The animals are going to be the most affected in the global war for extracting the last drops from the fields of earth.
Environmental protection or conserving wildlife at the cost of human settlements or potential real estate gains has started becoming more and more difficult to ignore in the global downturn of economies. It has to be noted however that the economies will recover one day but the environmental scars can never fully heal.
A time might come when only the humans are left. The only trace of the animals are their stories and the genetic materials stored in museums which is used to clone some animals for a weekly show.
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