Team Earth

We all―humans and other species―live in the same planet: Earth. Each specie has its own way to contribute to the planet's balance. Be it regulating the insect population, or pollinating flowers, or even creating dams to prevent floods. Each specie, big or small, mammal or reptile, has a role to play. Each specie is a ring in a chain that links the species with habitats and ecosystems. The chain is an avatar of balance.

Remove a ring from the chain and the whole thing comes down.

Humans, being the way we are, have always thought of ourselves as a superior specie, but that's the wrong perspective to have. As a specie, we have been very irresponsible; we even have been the cause of the extinction of several other species. We are have the advantage of being  aware of our abilities and of what's going on around; we have power, which also gives us a responsibility. All the species in the planet conform a team, and we humans are the leader.

As leaders, our responsibility should be watching over the balance of ecosystems and habitats, so ours, and the rest of species, have a patrimony to inherit to future generations. As leaders, we should run to save endangered species, or suffer the breaking of the food chain and its severe consequences. As leaders we should strictly regulate pollution, since it affects all species environments. As leaders, we should make the world proliferate.

Sadly, we suck as leaders.

What should we do?

Lead. A leader gives the example. A leader does it first.

Kids draw a green place to live when they are in kindergarten. Why when they grow up, they forget about it and nonchalantly throw thrash in the streets? Because first, they are not educated. Second, they follow the example of what they see in the streets. The change must start with you. Change your habits, stop and wonder "Am I helping in the protection of the world's ecosystem? Am I being a good leader?"

Remember we are all in this, humans and other species, we are a team, even more than that; we are a family. Do something for the Team Earth, be a catalyze As Gandhi said: "be the change you want to see in the world."