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Today, humans, not Mother Earth, need saving

Destroying land to extract oil and gas is not sustainable. [File, Standard]

There was a time nature determined if humans lived. The wild thrived and we only took what we needed from them. And when we returned, there was enough to carry home again.

Today, superior as we feel, we now determine if nature should thrive. Blame it on population growth, but it is this ‘boss’ attitude that has seen us make decisions that have enabled imbalance in the ecosystem due to excessive loss of biodiversity. And now the clarion call is ‘Save Mother Earth’.

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