Humanity is a Tumor

Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught and the last stream poisoned will we realize that we cannot eat money.

I didn't write these words. I saw them. But truer words have never been spoken. Industry and greed have the same goal as the virus, as the tumor, to grow and take and take and grow with no forethought to the destruction of the host tissue. A virus takes advantage of its surroundings to violently destroy others while propagating itself. It creates the world in its own image. It doesn't play nice. It takes. It kills. It's selfish.

That sounds familiar.

Humanity is a virus. Humanity is a tumor. We have the power of self reflection, we are more than a virus, it is possible for us to change our ways. But our greed is too strong, just like the all consuming greed of a virus, the greed of a tumor. We will remake this world in our image, and it will die.