Reflection From Jane Goodall's Talk

"We have found after all there isn't a sharp line dividing us from the animal kingdom. It's a wazzy line. It's getting wazzier all the time as we find the animals doing things.", says Jane Goodall. She points put the fact that humans are not superior than the other animals. Most people used to believe that we, the human beings, are on the upper level above the rest of the animals, which causes some problems. For example, because they believe we are superior, so it would be a lot easier for them to kill the other animals. It would become that we think we can do anything to them, because we are higher than they are.

The other amusing thing she has pointed out, is that there are about 50 different chemicals in all of our bodies that we did not have in 50 years ago. "...we are abusing the great power we have and we are destroying the world. In the developed world, in a way it's worse..." she says, "...and the diseases increase in places with filthy toxic, wastes, and dump. We're harming ourselves, as well as to th other animals, as well as to the mother nature." It's similar to what we have read in Ishmael. Ismael also brought up the point that this isn't "our" Earth. Most of us treat this Earth as if it were "our" property, and so we could do anything we desire. Our ignorance is what drags everything down. We do things when we are not sure what will happen next. We do them just because we are blinded by the benefits, but we don't usually realize what comes after that.

The last, and my favorite one from her is her telling that everyone has th role in play. It's not only some of us who caused the problems but also what all of us have done that caused a whole lot of trouble we are facing today. E.O.Weilson has said something pretty similar. He said that the extinction of just one kind of insect can destroy the whole world. Although insects are small, they can be big and influential. We can not put all the blame on the hunters, the people who dump all the wastes, the ones who cut down the trees, etc. The little things we do everyday, can make a difference if you put them all together. It's like the extinction of one kind of insect. They are small if you only see them as "an insect", but they are huge, if you can look at the bigger picture.