by Christine D. Patterson

Created on: July 23, 2008   Last Updated: August 01, 2008

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to see that "Mother Earth" is trying to tell us a story. When I was a child, the park was my favorite place to go. The trees were huge and the grass was green no matter what the season was. Now, the trees are telling a story that we refuse to see. They are hung over like being drunk the night before. Their leaves are not swaying to the wind anymore. Our flowers are not blooming in the spring. Some make a bud, but before it blooms to a flower, it turns black and dies. Birds that once sung at the crack of dawn are now singing at night because they are confused. There is not starry nights anymore.

The animals, if you listen closely at night are talking to each other as if they know there is something about to happen. Pollution is choking the air we breath. Animals that we once took for granted, will be gone in less then a few years. We wonder why bears and wolves are coming down out of the mountains? We are building on their land, and we have the nerve to say; "kill them because they are a threat to us." Honey Bees are dying, loosing them would mean that our crops would die also. Water is also becoming a threat, without it we will not survive. Food will become a luxury soon, but we refuse to see there are warnings. The ice caps are melting at an alarming rate. The seasons are not four seasons anymore, it is getting hotter with each passing summer.

We are ignoring the signs of Global Warming, saying that it is a myth. We deplete every natural resource that the earth has giving us. We drill for oil just to run fancy cars. We cut into our mountains just to build million dollar homes for the rich. Yet, we say; "the earth is fine?" Storms have came out of no where and destroyed many parts of the world, yet we have not learned. When are we going to wake up and realize that we need to turn around the wrong that we are doing to our earth?

Our children are being born to cancer and other diseases that were unheard of twenty years ago. Aids is still the number one killer around the world. The poor countries like Africa are being ignored because we feel it is their problem not ours. We have to live on this earth together. What happens to each of us does effect the world around us. Our government plays games that are going to effect all of us sooner or later. The future generations of our children will depend on what we do now. If we keep being in denial, there will be nothing left for our children. It will not matter how much money you have when have destroyed what is left of this world.. You will not be able to bargain your way out when we have destroyed the only place the humans race has to live on, and this is a place called "Earth."

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