"Animals and Us: Maintaining Hope and Keeping Our Dreams Alive in Difficult Times" - Psychology Today

Animals and Us: Maintaining Hope and Keeping Our Dreams Alive in Difficult Times | Psychology Today:

"Humans are big-brained, invasive, and omnipresent mammals who seem to think they can do almost anything they want. Individuals in most cultures claim to love nature and other animals but then go on to wantonly abuse them in a multitude of ways. Clearly, our relationship with the rest of the world is a very confused one and our actions are often contradictory and paradoxical.

Ecosystems and webs in nature are being recklessly and routinely destroyed. Animals are dying and vanishing before our eyes - even as you read this essay - and concerned citizens all over the world are asking, 'Where have all the animals gone?' We are deep in a serious crisis out of which it will be difficult to emerge successfully. We have annihilated the planet in very undignified and shameful self-centered ways."