Preserving Life

Antoni Skinner
3 min readMar 13, 2021
The Majestic Accompaniment of the Mountain Gorilla — Image by Ryan Al Bishri (Unsplash.com)

I have already described before the pains of the world that are ignored by human kind. I am not saying that all humans are the same, they aren't. I am saying that is us that make the difference and influence this world, a world that allows us to live and to breathe.

Life. Life is not to be taken for granted. We have been given this chance at life, a chance whether it is believed to have been given Gods or it has been gifted to us from the very source of the world that we call mother nature, it is still up to us to make sure that life is made to survive, now and for the generations to come.

Now i know, i know that there are other people like me, people who do everything they can to bring awareness to the fact that this world, it's not going to last forever the way that we continuously destroy it with our greed and ignorance.

Temperatures all around the globe, they've been rising since the start of the Industrial Revolution, even before then. It might not seem much, a rise rate of 1.8° F in the total global temperature from the 1750s.

Life needs to be preserved. None of us, even you reading this want our grandchildren or their grandchildren to live in a world that is 10–15° F higher than it is right now, in a world where the atmosphere is acidic and toxic and all but few animals have died out due to extremities in weather and overpopulation of Human kind.

How can we go each day, giving false hope to our children, grandparents, loved ones, telling them that tomorrow will be a better day when really the sky darkens with pollution and the worlds oceans get more and more sparse with life. Can we really tell them that we do everything we can to make tomorrow brighter? Can we really? Ask yourself what you have done today, or yesterday, or in the weeks before to help? We see prophesies each and every day telling us that the world will end, we listen to religious teachings that one day something will come as of the greed and ignorance of mankind. And yes, maybe it will. Everyone is entitled to hope. But every animal. Every ecosystem. Every environment has an entitlement to live and have the same chance at life that humans do. Do we have the right to take that away because we call ourselves the top of the food chain?

Think about it this way. If animals, the orang-utans, the snow leopards, the Mountain Gorillas or the Rhinoceros swapped in our place for theirs, would we like to have our homes burnt down, cut down or worse? Is that fair?

Think about change. Change can only happen if we work to make it happen.

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Antoni Skinner

18 Year Old Law and Politics Student with big dreams and intentions — Creating arguments and articles to everyone looking for something to read; quick or long!