A Feeling Of Hopelessness

This movie is important to watch not for the gore in one least bit, but to see just how harsh so many men (and some woman) are towards each other, wild life and the environment. How can you hope for change, a better world, one that is more in balance and in harmony with nature and all living creatures when you see the masses engaging in careless destruction in every aspect of life without conscience? And the innocent are usually the ones who suffer the most.

I had never heard of Africa Addido until this past year and was amazed to find out it's decades old. There's a lot of controversy around it for being so harsh and gruesome. It was filmed in the 1960's and shows just how bad it was in Africa. But, this sort of destruction of wildlife, humans and the environment has been going on to this day in all parts of the world. I just heard, I think it was on NPR, in the last year or so that the last female bear in France was shot and killed. I'm left in awe...in a bad awe. What sort of human being could have so little regard for life and so little sense of conscience that they felt compelled to take the last bear out? All I can say is, that's a scary person. No wonder number statistics of just about every animal has dropped down, many to extinction levels since I was a child. Elephants used to roam in the hundreds of thousands, now only several thousands are left. Even worse for the wild cats and still worse for others.

Those that care are in the minority and left feeling hopeless and silently disgusted for the actions and ignorance of our own kind. Have we not learned our lessons from Easter Island and many other examples? Using up resources will lead to our own demise. How do you teach a stubborn pig headed hunter about compassion? When he turns into a raging threatening monster if you dare even try?

What 'one thing' is it that can make those who are calloused and hardened change and see that killing for pleasure, in a world where we have everything at our finger tips, boarders on an emotional sickness. Why not get another hobby. There are so many to choose from. Why choose killing? Say it a few times over and over and really think about it. "Killing for pleasure, killing for pleasure, killing for pleasure". Doesn't that start to sound sick? But, there's probably nothing that can change these sort of people. Yet, many of them head to church on Sunday and truly feel that they are top notch good citizens of the world.

I fail to understand how someone can go throughout their daily routine with a wall lined in stuffed dead animal heads or walk all over the body of a zebra, lion, tiger, or bear being used as a rug. What kind of people are these?

I don't understand the soldier who gets home from war and the first thing he wants to do is go out and hunt and kill a poor innocent animal. Didn't he/she see enough death and destruction? You'd think, like the scene in The Deer Hunter (where Dinero has a big beautiful elk bull in his range finder, and after a moment of reflection, he slowly points the gun down), that they'd have learned something about killing and be turned off by it.

I was horrified to learn that many hunters never leave their trucks or the road until they've killed something. To me, that's the real meaning of a lazy coward. It's not legal, but they do it anyways. They just cruise slowly with their gun hanging out the window ready to destroy the beauty and peacefulness of the forest floor. This is why accidents happen. Many hunters don't have any regard not only for an animal's life, but have no regard for following rules either and end up shooting each other. The day I saw the guy aiming his gun out of his truck window was one day before hunting season was to begin. Some men are just foaming at the mouth to kill they can't even wait one day until it's legal. Again, a very scary human.

What kind of person can shoot a turkey while it's in the midst of a mating dance? Why not simply watch it and see how beautiful it looks. Why not shoot it with a camera or video. Why take it's life? What kind of person can shoot a young bear while it's crying out like a real child in terror as it climbs a tree for safety? It's so obscenely cruel and to think there are people who don't see or feel such at all. I am left feeling hopeless because death and murder is happening right now to many innocent victims. Seeing animals and children fall prey to killers wrongfully hurts deeply.

The worst part for me, is that being an animal owner all my life, I know how much animals feel. They feel pain and fear. I believe they feel it just as strong as humans do.

This is my world too. It's not fair that as I'm here doing everything that I can to respect the earth, by making major changes so that I leave as small a footprint as I can so that my children's children and the hunter's and poacher's children's children can live in a world that's not depleted of it's resources, animals or beauty, that they and others are in complete denial and really just don't give a damn regarding how much they take, waste, destroy and pollute.

Our world is being depleted right now and man is so narcissistic, his ego so inflated that he doesn't care or see what he's doing in the end to himself. It's got to be pure ignorance. The masses are ignorant. And it's frustrating for the rest of us who have to be penalized and deal with the consequences of the those who don't give a damn.

And it's not just about animals. There are terrible secrets regarding the millions of acres of mass deforestation all across the US(and everywhere else). One place is back in the hills only several miles way from Highway one, all along Northern Oregon. Everywhere you look for miles and miles, hill top after hill top, only stumps are left. Much of the land won't grow new trees because the soil is too acidic, too much pumice in the soil, is what I was told. Or if they do grow, the trees only grow as dwarfs. It would seem simple that if your company cuts down the trees, then plant new ones. That's the responsible thing to do.I don't understand the logic. I don't understand that sort of greed and lack of care not to give back if you tack so much.

We don't need to build homes out of wood, there are lots of alternatives. Why not use straw bale hay, brick, stone or other alternatives? And why hasn't anyone invented green energy from magnets? (Or any of the other natural alternative sources?) They don't create a waste bi product. Magnetic pull is what makes the universe spin.

Life could be so much better.