This is Our World

Recently I have been reading the news. With several online publications displaying the day's headlines on my iGoogle, I wait for my gmail to load and read away. Although I am spending everyday of my life working towards a degree in environmental education, I live in a bubble in Northern Wisconsin. My life is paid for in exchange for...well my life. I wake-up. I drink coffee. I eat breakfast. I great students and strap on their snowshoes. I explain to them about animals and plants and try to instill within them, in an hour or two, wonder. I have been doing this, or something similar to this for several years. I live in a bubble and talk about mysterious species like they are fictional novels...but not today.

Today I have spent the majority of my day in the office intermittently checking facebook, doing a little homework, and twiddling my thumbs. Then, I started reading the headlines. Syrian Troops fired on mourners attending a funeral creating the need for at least one more funeral. A mother of two was burned alive in Nepal after being accused of being a witch. Air Pollution increases our risks of strokes. In Virginia, a law is being pushed to required women wanting abortions to have an ultrasound probe jammed up their vagina, so they are forced to look their fetus in the...well unformed eye. Rick Santorum is an asshole...I summarized that headline.

There are countless headlines like this every single day and today they have me thinking. How? I want to know "How?" How did we let this happen? In other countries, can we still say, "It's cultural?" A woman was burned alive. I know this sort of brutality happens all over the planet, not excluding the U.S. but who the fuck cares where it happens? This is our planet. We are a part of all of it. Does a wolf in Yellowstone know that she is protected within the boundaries, but if she wants to walk to another safe haven, Grand Tetons National Park, she may legally be shot? No. She does not know boundary lines, because she doesn't give a fuck. She needs food and water and a safe place to rest her paws. End of story.

I guess my point is that this has to stop. We need to quit destroying each other everywhere. We need to open our fucking eyes to what is important in the world. A woman doesn't want her baby, big fucking deal. There are a million other babies dying on this planet, because they don't have any food. Why don't we spend the ultrasound probe money to actually save a baby that has been born and is starving or being abused. Why don't we spend the money Santorum is using to debate birth control and save someone from being burned alive or dying of AIDS or having maggots eat them alive. Why don't we stop talking and start doing...but I don't know what to do. I'm over educated and idealistic. Help.