"Save"

Our society is walking into a world of doom.  Correction, we are currently residing in a world of doom. This world is full of people who don’t understand how it works.  And what happens when you put a bunch of these people in a complicated environment that they can ruin in an instant? Nothing good.

You act like you want to save the world, so you purchase a solar powered or electric car; the car is great, there are no fumes coming out of the back of it, and you aren’t wasting an excess amount of gasoline. Yet, you don’t realize that a factory was built elsewhere in the world and it spews toxic fumes out into our atmosphere. That same factory has disrupted an ecosystem, not just the trees and animals it displaced, but the every living and nonliving thing within a 2 mile radius. That same factory needs to transport its products with the use of fume spewing trucks, and not to mention the road that was probably constructed for easy transport has destroyed the ecosystems that it slices through. Yes, all of this for just one car. But this doesn’t matter to you, because in your tiny bubble you have saved the planet, and you preach about your efforts just as you throw a plastic bottle into the garbage. This ignorance is the cause of the world's diminishing condition.

As said in “Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp,” “Wild things exist only if you have the graciousness to allow them to.” But when graciousness is mixed with ignorance, it is just as destructive as not caring at all. So what’s the point if you try to "save" the polar bears, you’re killing all the fish.