Sad photo

[jayem]

My wife subscribes to Nat Geo. Last month's issue is on extinction. The cover photo depicts Sudan, the last male northern white rhino being comforted by a wildlife ranger during his dying moments. It's a great image--sad and touching, but meaningful. My wife couldn't look at it without choking up. Intellectually, we know that extinction is a fact of nature. It seems to be the eventual fate of all multi-cellular life forms on our planet. But that doesn't make it any less tragic. Especially when it's the untimely result of human greed and stupidity.

 

[Brightmoon]

 

[JackRT]

I was similarly touched by that photo. An entire species extinct just based on human greed and ignorance. For a long while now scientists have speculated about whether or not mankind will survive its own technological advances and its own greed.

 

[joshua 1 9]

When we get to Heaven we will be able to see every animal that God ever created. They will not eat and devour each other. In fact most of them will be so tame the children can ride them. "The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water." (Isaiah 11:8,9)

 

[JackRT]

The Bible has such wonderful symbolic language.

 

[Heavenhome]

My wife subscribes to Nat Geo. Last month's issue is on extinction. The cover photo depicts Sudan, the last male northern white rhino being comforted by a wildlife ranger during his dying moments. It's a great image--sad and touching, but meaningful. My wife couldn't look at it without choking up. Intellectually, we know that extinction is a fact of nature. It seems to be the eventual fate of all multi-cellular life forms on our planet. But that doesn't make it any less tragic. Especially when it's the untimely result of human greed and stupidity.

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The photo says it all.
Heartbreaking