The bear is an amazing creature that lives in our fantastic nature. Bears are in fact peaceful animals that spend their lives searching for food, breeding and sleeping. The only thing the bears try to do at the moment is to survive, to try and not be exterminated. So what do we humans do to help them? Yes, we have the organizations and groups all around the planet that is trying to help as much as they possibly can. How many people does that constitute? A thousand? Ten thousand? Do you think that is enough to stop the extermination of certain animals when there are over 100 million people just in Europe that is constantly working against them? Maybe they are doing it at an unconscious level, but they still are working against the hard effort that the animal lovers put into their jobs. I think we should help the animals with keeping them from being exterminated and putting them into reservoirs as big as one half of Australia.
There was an incident in Norway where a Swedish man got killed by a bear. I do think this is a very sad event, and I don’t want it to happen again. The authorities think that by killing all the animals that attacks people and sheep, they can stop it from happening in the future. This is completely wrong from my point of view. It is OK that they kill the animals that are constantly being a threat to humans and their pets, but it is NOT OK to just kill them and move on without doing anything else. What does that do? Don’t they think it will happen again? Do they really believe that by killing ONE SINGLE animal they can stop the killing and attacking of the “Norwegian population” of happening? Animals cannot think forward in a way that stops them from doing the same mistake that their forefathers did. They cannot say to them selves: “Oh, I can’t kill this horde of sheep because then I will get shot, just like my uncle did!”
We have to look at the REASON why the bear attacked, so that we can find out how we can stop it in the future. If the reason was that it was starving and there was no food left in the forest, maybe we should build a reservoir and make SURE that there really is enough food to all the animals living there, so they won’t die or attack. The authorities don’t think forward. They only look at the problems they are facing at the time they are facing them. What they really should do is to sit down and THINK before they act, and in that case think FORWARD. If they had done that in all the cases they where going to solve, I think that Norway would be a much better place to live. Sure, it would go a little slower in our economical and technological development, but the result we would get in the end would be well worth the waiting for them!
I’m getting a little over the top of my head here. Of course they think forward, it’s their job. The only problem is that they don’t do it enough, or at least WELL enough. They sure can get the job done, but can they get the job done well? Now we are talking about the killing of the bear again. Sure they managed to do the job, they killed the bear! But they did not do the job well. If they had done the job well in the first “animal attacks farm” incident here in Norway, there would be a lot LESS incidents now. What they, or actually we, do NOW effects how we live, think, eat and breathe in the future. The things that we make happen in the future effects how our children and grandchildren spend their lives even further into the future.
If you can see my point, and the potential positivity in my text, and don’t just look at the negative sides, maybe you can join an animal organization and start saving the nature yourself someday. Is it something we really need it has to be more people that is working FOR our environment, at a conscious level, and not against it, at a subliminal level.
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