Human Issues

We are losing rainforests at a rate of one and a half acres per minute, but I bet most people sitting at their jobs or in their comfortable homes clicking past TV news channels explaining the mistakes humanity is making didn’t know that. If we keep this up, we’ll lose the rainforest by 2020. And that would really be a huge problem because we’ll die without them. We all rely on antibiotics to cure the simplest diseases that used to kill people. But nobody can pull their heads out of the sand long enough to realize that this ‘climate crisis’ isn’t something exclusively affecting scientists. It’s affecting everyone. Rainforests hold cures to cancer that we still haven’t been able to find, but nobody cares, do they? All they want is to have their Oreos with palm oil and hour-long showers, to be sitting on a pile of money, letting their problems sift through their fingers like grains of sand, since they can’t come to the realization that once they’ve knocked out all of humanity and wildlife with the carbon emissions fueling their extravagant, greed-filled lifestyles, the money they lust after will no longer be able to save them from their worst fears that finally came true.