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CommonHumanity

(246 posts)
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 09:45 PM Mar 2022

Can't stop thinking about all the non human life in Ukraine

Like everyone here, my heart breaks for the people of Ukraine while I marvel at their courage. Something else is though is haunting me terribly - the non-human life. The plants and the animals, the microbes in the soil, the insects and all the other life. I am glad the world is paying attention to pets and zoo animals, but there is also so much more that makes up the web of life that supports us and makes the world so wonderous.

The fact that spring is coming to life all around me in my home in NC only makes the destruction more immediate and real. How can we as humans destroy these gifts? We are surely the most insane species on earth. I know in this case, the blame falls on Russia, but we as humans have been warring and destroying the life on which we depend for eons.

A few weeks ago the spring peepers started up in the pond and woods near my house. Last week there were so many frogs on the path to my house that I had to be careful not to crush one as I pushed a wheelbarrow up the path. The soil around my house is brimming with earthworms, the birds are singing, I see rabbits and deer every day, buds are forming and turning into leaves with haste and everything is coming to life. Every time I notice these things, my heart breaks for all the utterly innocent and utterly essential life forms that are being burned and poisoned by human war. It just breaks my heart to see green life turned to ashes.

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Can't stop thinking about all the non human life in Ukraine (Original Post) CommonHumanity Mar 2022 OP
littlemissmartypants Mar 2022 #1
I think about this too nt XanaDUer2 Mar 2022 #2
Like in Syria, Yemen and Iraq? WarGamer Mar 2022 #3
Exactly (NT) CommonHumanity Mar 2022 #4
"War is not healthy for children and other living things" Deuxcents Mar 2022 #5
i just googled: poster war is not healthy orleans Mar 2022 #6
Easy to copy and good idea. I'll see if they've got T-shirt's. Deuxcents Mar 2022 #7

Deuxcents

(15,777 posts)
5. "War is not healthy for children and other living things"
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 10:33 PM
Mar 2022

I used to have a poster in the 60’s w/ that on it. Should have kept it..

orleans

(33,986 posts)
6. i just googled: poster war is not healthy
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 11:11 PM
Mar 2022

there are prints of it on amazon
looks like it's at other places where you can buy it

i used to have that poster too

when my kid was a young teen i just got some poster board and did my best to draw out that original poster (that was around 2000)

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