LPF Week 17 - fatberg
Mar. 12th, 2019 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoOur world teeters on the bring of ecological disaster. Whole species of animals and plants (and probably stuff like fungi that no one really cares about) are vanishing from the planet every day. Habitat loss is the number one killer for many of these vanishing, irreplaceable parts of our world. Isn't it time we realize that there are places that humans simply don't belong? That there are places we should leave aside for the rest of the world's inhabitants?
And that's why I'm calling for an end to urban spelunking.
Yes, I know that many people would claim that these environments are already the domain of human beings, having been constructed by humans in the first place. But we turned our backs on those places, and other things moved in, and it's not fair to suddenly say we want them back again.
It's estimated that there are fewer than a hundred giant albino sewer alligators left in the world today, but every day people invade their homes and risk trampling their eggs. We abandoned those sewers when they became too clogged with congealed garbage, and the alligators thrived. But now that disgusting mass is a tourist destination, and the alligators are on the brink of extinction.
It's not even illegal to kill them when they try to eat you! Personally, I think that if someone is thoughtless enough to invade the home of a precious endangered species, then they deserve to be eaten, along with their entire tour group.
And what about ghouls? If we didn't want ghouls moving into our abandoned graveyards, when we shouldn't have abandoned those graveyards in the first place.
Don't even get me started on the giant, radioactive, all-consuming "monster" in the Nevada desert's old nuclear testing grounds. It's the only one of its kind! Probably! Doesn't it deserve a place in this world as much as we do? I mean, why do people even want to visit radioactive parts of Nevada?
Please, the next time you're considering venturing into the dark, forgotten corners of our world just...just don't, alright? Those little baby white alligators are just so darned cute.
And that's why I'm calling for an end to urban spelunking.
Yes, I know that many people would claim that these environments are already the domain of human beings, having been constructed by humans in the first place. But we turned our backs on those places, and other things moved in, and it's not fair to suddenly say we want them back again.
It's estimated that there are fewer than a hundred giant albino sewer alligators left in the world today, but every day people invade their homes and risk trampling their eggs. We abandoned those sewers when they became too clogged with congealed garbage, and the alligators thrived. But now that disgusting mass is a tourist destination, and the alligators are on the brink of extinction.
It's not even illegal to kill them when they try to eat you! Personally, I think that if someone is thoughtless enough to invade the home of a precious endangered species, then they deserve to be eaten, along with their entire tour group.
And what about ghouls? If we didn't want ghouls moving into our abandoned graveyards, when we shouldn't have abandoned those graveyards in the first place.
Don't even get me started on the giant, radioactive, all-consuming "monster" in the Nevada desert's old nuclear testing grounds. It's the only one of its kind! Probably! Doesn't it deserve a place in this world as much as we do? I mean, why do people even want to visit radioactive parts of Nevada?
Please, the next time you're considering venturing into the dark, forgotten corners of our world just...just don't, alright? Those little baby white alligators are just so darned cute.
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