#heyhumans

I suddenly feel nauseous and sick, it's like something attacking me from within. 

You? Humans? Stop it! Your species are out of control. One thing I keep hearing you mutter is that you care about me. Some of you say you are working to save me. Look at me, it's gone way too far. 

Every day I provide you with fresh air to breathe, yet now you make my lungs sick. My atmosphere is way more fragile than you think. My skies are congested and polluted. It took me millions of years to make it just right, perfecting every chemical in the composition of the skies for you to appreciate. You destabilize my climate, your emissions from factories, cars, agriculture waste and enormous energy consumption change my environment so much at such a rapid rate that soon I will be out of control. I won't be able to predict floods, droughts, acidic rain and earthquakes. Sometimes I am even scared of myself.  

I gave you everything I had, and you took, but never returned back. Just look at the oceans. You take more than you share, then poison my waters and expect me to feed you? 

I have been developing the ocean for millions of years, having the biggest population of marine life ever existed, it became a protein factory of the whole world. But then you came along and now 80% of fish are gone, exploited and caught away by your large murdering ships! Not only this, you are giving me a fever, my temperature rose by half a degree over the last 50 years! I am melting my ice peaks to keep me cool, but it doesn't help, the ocean is getting warmer, collar reefs are dying being poisoned and thorn apart. 

Not only my waters, you went far beyond that. Your population is out of control. You are growing exponentially! Don't you see that my carrying capacity is small? I can't support an indefinitely increasing human population at your rates of consumption. Yet, you go beyond, exploiting resources meant for other forms of life. My babies, the various species that I have preciously raised, are going extinct because of you! You are slaughtering them, ruining their homes, and depriving of food sources. I feel empty; the decrease of species richness is tightly linked with your population density, you, humans, induce drops in biodiversity. With the pollution of light, not only you can not see stars anymore, but you disrupt the bird's migration making them change directions and suffer in unnatural habitat during migration.

You are wasting my resources. With the mass production that you imposed, you, human, don't even share resources among yourselves. 16% of your population has 80% of all the resources the humans exploit! 

Hey, humans, I am warning you, you do not stand apart from other creations, you meant to care for them and for me. If you don't take care of me, I cannot take care of you.

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