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Blog on Dzog
On my mind, July 7, 2010
Bears have been making their way into campsites in New Mexico in search of food, and are being more aggressive than normal in grabbing it, often physically harming campers.
It was reported that last year alone 30 bears were killed for having wandered in where they shouldn’t have been. This year, after several mishaps and at least one attack on a camper, 8 bears have been killed.
The reason our wildlife are venturing lower into human habitation is that their home base diminishes year by year, not to mention their food sources.
We are crowding everything out, folks, and guess who is fighting back?
Animals aren’t as dumb as we have hoped they were: They know we are the ones who are overpopulating and overeating. They can see us and smell us and hear us encroaching further and further into their usual domain.
At some point in our human story, we really have to begin to respect and regard other species as having a right to life and the god given means for their survival.
We have to think, not only globally about the rights of other humans to survive and to thrive, but also about other species’ rights to survive and to thrive.
Truly, had we ‘thought’ fully about the consequences of oil spills in the gulf, we would never have risked it. Had we ‘thought’ fully about the consequences of building and dropping a nuclear bomb, we would never have risked that either: we meaning all of us, other countries included who were on the verge of creating that particular folly.
Had we ‘thought’ fully about many things we take for granted in our daily lives, we might have thought more carefully about what we invented and what we became inextricably
dependent upon.
We would have remembered that bears are important, too.
Om Mani Padme Hum.
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