Man is man’s worst enemy. Holes in the ozone layer, polluted water, and unclean air represent world threats caused by no one else but us. Our greediness and hunger for power have destroyed our environmental surroundings, which are almost unbearable to live in. Many suffer from asthma due to indoor and outdoor pollution, diarrheal disease due to bad drinking water and pesticide poisoning due to exposure to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals. As humans, we cannot adapt to different environmental conditions. By tampering with nature, however, we tend to harm it. Our careless attitude towards the environment has obviously taken a toll on us.
Recently, a power outage affecting millions in North America was a result of our overuse of electricity through air conditioning. Not only are we more susceptible to new diseases, but we are also become a weak species. We have become addictively dependent on medicine, pills and supplements. So many people are being diagnosed with depression that it is starting to look like a fake disease. Tylenol and Advil are also being used daily by many teenagers who think that having a headache is the end of the world.
As mentioned before, our selfishness is to blame for many of the problems affecting us today. Each and every one of us is striving to get on top, to be powerful, famous and especially rich. However, in order to achieve our goals, people are usually stepped on and used. It has gotten to a point where people just don’t care about each other. If we cared about each other and the rest of the world, we would’ve put an end to child labour and the famines a long while ago. As much as people like to say they’d help the impoverished third world families, few people actually do. Unless they are promised something in return such as a reward of some sort, people generally don’t help each other.
The serious problems caused by our reckless behaviour and attitudes are slowly killing us as a whole. The problems can be fixed if we strictly educate each other to be givers and to care. We should be encouraged or somehow forced to share some of our wealth with others and make the world a better and happier place. However, educating the masses is extremely difficult, especially since the root of all our problems lies in human nature. We are a flawed species and inadequate species. Our faults are destroying the environment, the world and each other. If we continue to live this way, it is likely that the human species will perish.