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EXCERPTS: Every day scientists and researchers are finding ways to make our lives more comfortable and convenient. We defy gravity with aeroplanes, defy the laws of nature with cloning, and defy the rules of the universe itself with artificial intelligence. But in the end, what have we really achieved? The melt rate of Antarctica has tripled in the last 25 years. A record 37.1 billion tons of carbon emissions were released into the atmosphere in 2018. More than 72 million children throughout the globe that are of the age to be in primary education are not enrolled in school. More than one billion people don’t have access to clean water due to pollution from toxic substances, sewage or industrial waste. And there are over 795 million people in this world who have not had enough to eat a single day of their lives, while one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted. We, as the privileged people of this world, pretend that nothing is wrong. But in the end, when we are falling over the edge of destruction, when we are the only species left on this planet, when we are about to fall into extinction because of the choices we made for our own short-term benefits have caused the destruction of ourselves… What are we going to do? The grey swampy mass of slime has stagnated and is now the equivalent of a garbage dump. Patches of unusually colourful garbage spot the surface, while shrivelled plants surround the monotone scene. The monster opens its gaping mouth, pouring out masses of thick, black ooze into the atmosphere. Birds die before hitting the ground, enveloped in the oily, dark mass. The girl lies in the dirt, gasping for breath. Her family stands around her, helpless, as they watch her pass into a new existence. Because they were unable to provide the medicine that she needed. Food. In our search to be the best, be the most successful, live the most comfortable lives possible, we have forgotten what it means to be human. We have lost our humanity. Where has our humanity, as human beings, gone? In recent years, the issues of climate change, poverty and world hunger have gotten more and more serious, as well as prevalent, in the ‘developed’, as many claim, the world we live in today. And we have done nothing to help this situation. So, what am I suggesting that we would do? We need to come together, as the human race, as one. We need to forget all the petty rivalries that we have with each other, and instead focus on a common goal-living in harmony. With nature. With our planet. And most importantly, with ourselves. Humanity. This is what matters.
