I am living being too you know. I
have feelings too. I experience pain. I wince when somebody has intentions to
harm me. It hurts when somebody plucks at my leaves or breaks my branches.
Humans never realize that.
We plants have served humans for
a very long time. Our leaves, our roots, our shoots became their food. We are
the ones responsible for their survival. All the best parts of us, our fruits
and the roots were mercilessly plucked and eaten by them.
Humans progressed and so did
their acts to pollute nature. The machines that they use to live and travel
emit poisonous chemicals and we take in most of those pollutants. They have
killed us by hordes without any remorse, to build new homes. We have served
humans by providing food, by cleaning up their messy pollutants and yet they
continue to exploit us, harass us, maim us and kill us.
I make my food from light, you
know through an act which has a very complex name. I use the energy from the
sun and convert it to an energy which will be used by me to live, grow and
become strong. The wicked humans have even come up with ways to tap into my
energy source and take away all the energy that I gained from the sun, as electricity to power their noxious gases emitting devices. They want to kill us by not even
providing an opportunity to grow.
I wish
that we had evolved along with humans. I wish we had the power to gobble up humans
when they desire to hurt us. Few of my relatives are carnivorous, you know, all
of us are not as docile as you think, but we have not evolved enough to consume
humans. I wish I could transform myself into modern weaponry at a moment’s
notice and shoot pine cones and sharp pointed twigs at the people who intend to
harm us. Earth is our home too, you know and we have every right to live on it.
If you do not stop these atrocious acts of destruction against the tree-kind, we
will stop serving you and start revolting against you, then where would you go?
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I was inspired to write this short piece based on two articles. Prof. Ramaraja Ramaswamy from UGA College of Engineering developed a technology in which thylakoids, structures in the plant cell are modified and immobilized on a nano-material to generate electricity from photosynthesis. I could’nt help feeling sad for the plants after I read the article below and thought how human truly exploit plants to the maximum extent possible.
I was inspired to write this short piece based on two articles. Prof. Ramaraja Ramaswamy from UGA College of Engineering developed a technology in which thylakoids, structures in the plant cell are modified and immobilized on a nano-material to generate electricity from photosynthesis. I could’nt help feeling sad for the plants after I read the article below and thought how human truly exploit plants to the maximum extent possible.
The second article is about an
artist Sonia Rentsch who created the beautiful guns and other weaponry using
materials like leaves and sticks. I looked at the images in the article below
and I was awed by the creativity of the artist. I also felt uncomfortable to see
the plants depicted as modern weaponry which are used to kill humans.
Thought provoking article. Like it.
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