The Earth cannot keep up; can we slow down?

 The Earth cannot keep up; can we slow down?


In this fast-paced world where human greed for luxury, speed, and comfort is insatiable,

can anyone dare to slow down? Even nature takes its time; why can’t we humans?


It takes around 4 billion years for life to form on earth. It takes time for the earth to

become livable. Trees, for example, grow unhurriedly. Accordingly, most trees on

average take 10–30 years to reach full maturity. But humans only take 10—30 minutes

to cut them down. Meanwhile, human existence can be traced only 200,000 years ago,

but how is it that in such a limited period, humans were able to disrupt the balance of

nature, which the earth relied on for about 4 billion years? We blame not human

existence per se, but humans’ greed.


Humans are no longer satisfied with enough. Everybody wants more—well, more than

what is essential, sufficient, and necessary. The standard of success means having

luxuries and busy lives. In pursuit of comfort, speed, and consumption, we created a

busy world where everything is fast and standardized. But at what expense? Well, we

owe it all to our home, Earth. But since humans, as they say, are naturally self-

interested and greedy, with a blind eye we kept on disregarding the fact that resources

are scarce.


As we developed schemes to satisfy our greed, we created a system that consumes

resources faster than nature can replenish them, leading to climate instability, species

extinction, and social inequality. Nature needs our patience. As humans demand more,

nature sacrifices parts of its own, and to sustain the supply, it needs time to regenerate.

If humans only learn to live in a balance like how nature is, the earth can thrive and

we can live in harmony. If only we embraced diversity and accepted our

individual roles, just like the dirt/soil of the earth embraces its being, then envy and

greed would not move us to crave surpluses. If only humans learn to be contented, then

the resources could be distributed equally, and every stomach may know no hunger,

and social inequality cannot survive. If only we slowed down, the earth would have time

to regenerate and keep up.


Like how trees defy gravity, may we also defy our human greed. We must consume

resources in moderation and act intelligently in consideration of the well-being of not

only our fellow humans but also the earth that we live in. We must live not in isolation

but in mutualism, in harmony with nature.


After all, we are bound under our natural law to do justice. Sometimes, justice may be in

the simplest form of conserving our natural resources. By sustaining a balance and

healthful ecology, we are giving our mother earth the time to thrive and share its

abundance with generations yet to come. This way we are giving unborn generations

the chance to live in the comfort that our home, planet Earth, is capable of providing.

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