Our Resources

Good evening Ladies and Gentleman.

Humans have some *pretty cool* resources. Trees, water, precious minerals, fossil fuels, -

What's that? Who says they belong to humans? It's self evident isn't it? I mean, really, stop being so childish! Who owns them if not us? The dolphins? The chimpanzees? E Coli? (guffaws). Next question - Wait, I mean, let me continue. These resources must be cared for -

What? What's that? Of course humans must care for our resources, what are you, some kind of environment hater? Oh, you're saying we can't care for them? Well that's patently untrue, just look at, um, look at... Well there are many laws and policies in place, we extract a great deal of value... Hmm, yes, I suppose you're right. We don't exactly look after them, do we? But we ought to really, they do so much, and not just for us humans, but for other life forms -

Hmm? You think it's a nonsense that one species can look after every so called resource on the planet? Alright, that's it, I'm going. I'm not used to being undermined like this, and at the very start of my speech too. Piss off, the lot of you.

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Hello there. Here is our new proclamation. What humans proclaim as resources, the rest of the world proclaims as... well, itself. Living things aren't ours. Rocks aren't ours, water isn't ours. We are part of nature, we can never be removed from it.