Humanity

Is having fewer children the answer to reducing carbon emissions and saving the planet? . Top Story - May 2021.
When I saw the writing prompt: "Tell us how you're recycling, reducing, and reusing to help minimize your carbon emissions."
By Sh*t Happens - Lost Girl Travel5 years ago in Earth
Save the world = save yourself
Let’s face it; humans are, by nature, pretty selfish creatures. When the average person thinks about saving the oceans, or any other part of the environment, it seems like far too big a task with far too little reward. It seems an impossible task, right? How can one person save anything so big, and why should we have to do it? Setting unrealistic goals, I have found, is the fastest way to ensure failure. Yet, what is even more common than being self-serving? Setting unrealistic goals! Of the average people who think about saving the environment, one will simply say it is too big a task, and serves no purpose for them personally- they don’t do anything to try. One will think it is such a big task they do not even know where to start- so they won’t even try. One will see it as a challenge to be “perfect”- they will go over the top trying to change every single thing about their own life, and will get in everyone’s face trying to enforce that strict way of living onto others- but will typically fail due to their unrealistic goals. The last one, however, sees that every little bit helps, changes their life in a manageable way, and encourages others to do what they can without pressuring about what more they should be doing; they have reasonable expectations for themself and for others, and they implement a change that can be maintained.
By Cora K5 years ago in Earth
The Ocean’s Dark Truths
My true identity is within these four. Dedicated to the life of the oceans; the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, and... the Arctic. We are one body yet have been divided by land by a natural instinct of what the world decided for itself. Now due to the progression of how deep the oceans limits are... well we all remain carefree and slightly careless. I’m here to say that I can always feel the waves rush when the waters ache for relief. The jealousy of being pure when our friends the lakes, rivers, and ponds are full of pollution. The waves are the waters way of acting up and it’s beautiful but I believe that human beings detest the matter behind the oceans dark truths.
By Keanna Barry 5 years ago in Earth
5 Ways To Cut Costs And Help Protect The Planet
Often, making changes to your lifestyle can positively change both of these things. And, there are many ways to cut costs at home, and some of those switches also help protect the planet. Sustainable living is more important than ever, and living sustainably saves money. Here’s what you can do to start making a difference.
By Luke Fitzpatrick5 years ago in Earth
Why I am so angry at the whole human race.
Why I am so angry at the whole human race. All the time. . . "If" the universe has any form of consciousness. . And "If" that consciousness wants to avoid dying.
By Ross E Fortune Lombardi5 years ago in Earth
Motherhood as a Movement
To reduce my carbon footprint, I've decided not to have that third kid. Hear me out. I have two, and they are awesome. Totally awesome. And I could have a third--I was one of three after all. But what I'm going to do, is I'm going to pass. For completely unselfish reasons.
By Lisa Love5 years ago in Earth
we are here to learn.
What we may learn. An ode to nature. To everything that crawls and creeps, devours and eats up the grey concrete with its greenery. It looks for its holes in the old walls and blasts them open from the inside. Everything built by man has a half-life and is not meant to last forever. Nature seeks its own way. Ruthlessly, over every adversity and obstacle. Towards the light, because static and stagnation are contrary to its spirit.
By Ola Gaber5 years ago in Earth
Ancient Afrofuturism
Ancient Afro-Futurism What do you get when you combine boundless imagination with the ever-present innovative culture of the descendants of the first curators of human civilization? Words alone can not dare to begin to describe the divinely endowed sensations emitted at the sight of Western Societies lowest caste people embracing the alienation of their being as a vessel for cosmically liberated expression.
By Zēnith5 years ago in Earth
Skin and Skins
This morning there is a very bright, but waning, moon and clear skies and the sun is in its twilight rising. The forest is brilliantly bathed in a supernatural blue light and, though there is still a chill on the air, the earth is breathing its life to us and envigorating us. The smell and sounds of the waking forest are wonderful. My ecstatic little wife is dancing and prancing about camp behind the 1980 F250 which has become our refuge while we work and pay our remote land and home. She wears no shoes and nothing but her favorite tie-dye shirt if she can.
By Turtle Tank5 years ago in Earth
The Rose and the Stone
High up on a cliff a large stone slumbered. The wind passed by this day, gathering up to itself the small specks of soil the stone rested upon. On their way they went with the wind, each beginning a new journey, enough of them that the sleeping stone was dislodged from his bed to begin one of his own.
By Joel Gray III5 years ago in Earth
The Knocking Friend
At home wondering, if ever these times will change. I could read or make a fictional story; I swear COVID is taking me down a lane, I never want to visit again. I am trying to say that nothing is new, and I keep watching the same view, starting to itch, and itch, and itch for a change; that is all I can do. Not true. I could go out for a walk with all my friends, distance, we at a distance, but none of them walk. I would pass a visit, but the government says we cannot. What is this world becoming? Where will the time take me? Imagine being a social butterfly and then bearing upon a hibernating season; A season that has me feeling worse than a widow grieving. I told my voices to push me; this low is changing me in ways I do not enjoy. I thought I still needed to keep pushing myself; regardless of the amount of time and energy I did, I feel it is not enough. On my lowest of lows, I decided to turn to nature and the beauty it provides.
By Jessica A. Fox5 years ago in Earth
Make Paganism Acceptable Again
Earth worship is a sacred part of all of Humanity's ancestry. We all hail from small communities of farmers, and hunter gatherers. Once we lived in harmony with our natural environment, because it was understood that we owe our very survival to the verdant beauty of this, our Garden of Eden. This is not only true of one particular race, or ancestry, or culture. It is true of all peoples of the Earth. We see remnants of monuments from the Neolithic Age in all populated corners of the world. Monuments which were mysteriously aligned to stars in the sky and specific astronomical events. From Stonehenge, to Machu Picchu, to the Giza complex, no ancestry of humanity was without nature worship if one only looks far enough back.
By Andrea Anzalone5 years ago in Earth