Now I’m not saying any of you have cancer, I’m saying we ARE cancer and we are killing this world because it’s what we are here to do. To understand what I’m trying to say more clearly all you need to understand is a humans base animal needs; food, shelter and fucking, and we can forego shelter.

Although there are plenty of countries that can lend credence to my argument it is easier and faster going to countries with not only mass hunger (often due to adverse environmental factors) but at the same time population growth. How many times have you seen a charity video for some impoverished nation and one of the images they show over and over to gain your sympathy is starving children, wandering around half clothed with a face full of flies or sometimes too painfully starved to even move. What these images also say though is that even in that kind of environment people won’t stop fucking, not even to save their lives.

As an example it is one of the stronger ones but it does make the point pretty clear, we are animals and it doesn’t matter how amazing technology and science become, at it’s heart we will always be animals and a threat to the very land on which we grew. Without even mentioning the disaster level events before humans hit the ground (which would take waaaay too long for this) the Earth keeps throwing natural disasters at us at what feels like an increasingly often rate.

Even when I was growing up roughly forty years ago we had proper seasons, they weren’t just names we gave to a group of months or the time for different holiday celebrations they meant something; winter was cold, summer was hot and sunny, but over the passed decade the lines have blurred more and more between those conditions and no one seems to notice.

As a race, humans have reached unparalleled heights of technology and done some amazing things but the fact is it is a tale with an unhappy ending no matter how long it takes to play through. The short version of what I’m trying to say is that while we keep patting ourselves on the back about our achievements eventually it will all be in vain, and much like the human body suffers from diseases, illness and death so too does the planet as we become the living breathing wave of death this planet keeps trying to get rid of.

No matter what devastation is thrown at humans we come back stronger and grow more like a virulent disease adapting to each new cure that is attempted, spreading like a cancer spreads through a body if left unchecked. I’m not convinced that we will be able to recover from what we have done to this planet, well, I should say more so that for it to happen we are going to see a lot of suffering first.

Eventually though there is only one outcome, no matter how far we go as humans, even if (or maybe especially if) we reach the point of inhabiting every square inch of available space on this globe, someday we will be gone as a species. This planet will lay in bed feverish and shaking as it attempts to kill off the disease spread across it, and when it does it will slowly recover as it has many times before and then someday again either some scrap pockets of surviving humanity will rise, or eventually something new will take our place… I for one welcome our new cockroach overlords.