Chapter 1 - Untitled

“Ok Ok Ok, now let a different opinion be heard.

This isn't a flame or anything.

Just my opinion on the matter.

First off, yeah sure I like cats,

and dogs... and man those Koala bears are the cutest.

But A) human life is just a little more important.

And B) death is as natural as life.

When a certain animal gets hit by a car,

do we not feel bad? People get hit by cars too.

Anyway, sure people are getting stupider and stupider,

every minute. But we only have ourselves to blame for that.



Ok on to my true point, I think this is a bit too far off from

reality. Just like global warming.

Do your research and you'll find it is a crock of shoot.

Sure we do bad things, and so on and so forth, but that's life.

And things aren't as bad as some people make them out to be.”





Dear Zakuman,



This is my reply to your comment on my picture `Dying Silently.' As you said, NO Flaming! I'm definitely not trying to do that. I have done this in a story format because it's too long to be a comment and so that others can see my point of view and come to grips with reality.



Humans are the most successful mammal on Earth. We are very unique and special because, we can do complex planning, we have a long term and detailed memory, we have the ability to understand and communicate with each other, we can have full scale conversations. That really sets us apart from other animals. NO doubt about it we are the smartest living being on earth. But by no means does that make us more important!



You told me to do my research, and that I'd find it was all a lie. I thought it was common knowledge to everyone that if it wasn't for animals we wouldn't have forests or good soil for farming and no food. What would you eat then? What would you live in? What would you breathe? What will you give to Hearsegirl when all the flowers die from lack of bees or butterflies to pollinate them?

Our environment is sooo fragile. There's a very delicate balance, that if you alter one thing, everything that depends on it will come crashing down.



For example, say there was a rare kind of mushroom growing in a forest, that worms and bugs thrived on, the bugs and worms then attract birds and insect eating mammals, who attract predators, and from all of these creatures their poop is full of rich nutrients for the soil, which the plants live on. See the perfect balance? Everything relies on each other.

Then, say you came and killed of the mushroom. Those particular insects that needed it die and stop living there. So the birds and the insect eating mammals have nothing to eat so they die off and stop living there, etc, etc, until you have no forests, which can alter all sorts of things like weather, soil conditions, salination and endangering species because they have no home. You Know, all the kind of crap.



Ok, so hopefully, what I've just done is show you just a snippit of the importance of animals, now about death.



Lord! I know animals are knocked over by cars! I know it happens every blinking day! IT happens, and unfortunately, it happens more than it should. Most of the time its accidental but occasionally you get the odd driver who doesn't care if there's an animal on the road. Some aim to hit them! That's a real shame.



But it isn't the only way animals are dying and becoming endangered. Zaku, global warming is not a scary fairytale. It IS reality. Did you know the polar ice caps are melting? So where do the seals go? And when the seals start dying off, so do the polar bears and sharks and whales that eat them. Global warming is affecting the weather dramatically. I'm an Australian, and everyone knows it's a very dry country. But there is a rain cycle. Inland Australia stays dry for a few years. And then we'll get a couple of good years, with plenty of rain. Enough to fill lakes, dams, creeks and tanks. Since Inland Australia is where we do all our farming and it is the driest part of the country, we HAVE to have that rain cycle. It's essential.

But we aren't getting it. Why? Global warming. As much as we don't like it, zaku (And I really, really don't) its happening. And it's getting worse. Sure life is life, full of tragedy and misfortune. Death is part of it. It's necessary. However, they estimate that all of the classical African animals, giraffes, zebra, antelope, lions, tigers, won't survive another decade.



You try and tell me that's just life. Animals weren't put on this planet to die off. Just think, in a few years, you grandchildren will only ever be able to see those animals in books and movies. It will be like a myth, a fairy tale that there was ever animals on the planet. But if we didn't have any animals on the planet we'd all die anyway. I just think that's all wrong. What's a world without plants and animals? Nothing. People are just taking animals for granted.



Zaku, I could just hug you if you read all through this. Thankyou so much if you did. Please tell me what you think. I still reckon you're an awesome artist, I hope you still think I'm ok. Are we cool? Oh and my advice to you, go to Africa now, see the animals, so you can tell your grandkids, that yes, there once were animals



PS All of that info I have got off the news, from school, and from my mum who is a scientist and studies all about this. And also, Koalas aren't bears :D



Ok to everyone else who isn't Zakuman

Hope you got something out of that. Sorry it was so long but its something I feel very strongly about. Oh and here's a piece of info to brighten up your day (like not, if your very sensitive about cruelty to animals don't read the next bit) on the news, they reported that a woman lost her cat, right. She found it the next morning on her porch…skinned. What kind of a screwed up insane sicko would do that?!

So be warned.



IF you have a different point opinion, something to add or just wanna say hi, feel free to leave a comment.



Peace out ( nah! Just jk! I wouldn't say that if I was paid!)

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