Ingat tak lagu 'tell me said..the elephant...tell me why this has to be..'

(Ni gambar si Amid, rescued from a theme park in Malacca. tengok la kurus melidi si Amid ni.)

I came across this blog www.remembersheena.blogspot.com and i'm sad. Kita kat Malaysia terlampau mengejar nak jadi negara maju..

We build tall buildings, highways, develop land for cultivation and housing.

We cut trees, even by the roadside in towns and cities, kononnya nak membesarkan jalan, atau takut dahan pokok jatuh timpa orang.

We flood hectares of jungle for reservoir, kononnya to overcome water shortages and to supply electricity, am i right?.

We flatten hills because kononnya takut tanah runtuh...

Truthfully, who benefits from all these?

Company yg dapat contract untuk tebang pokok or org yg keretanya diselamatkan dpd future dahan pokok patah? (how often does this happen i wonder)

At the moment we're still facing water shortages..why not take measures to clean and deepen the river yg penuh dengan sampah sarap?

Bukit yg diratakan selalunya i nampak utk bina rumah atau condo..

When i was living in USJ, i used to take the NKVE to work. I saw the gradual changes from green bukit bukau to banglo lots..mostly to cater for the upper crust of society..ye la..yg nak bergated community gitu. There are still displaced people, people without houses or can't afford to own one.

Now ni when i drive through Puchong to Putrjaya on the LDP, i see the same thing is happening..I selalu terfikir...where are the wild animals going to go?? From sebesar2 like monkeys, to squirrels, birds and sekecil2 like gonggok?

I'm sure the trees were there for hundreds of years and they get chopped down just like that.

The weather is getting hotter. I seem to recall that when i was younger, i had to sleep with the fan turned off because some nights it could get quite chilly. And mind you i lived in a rumah batu..

sekarang ni org kena tidur dalam aircond otherwise it'd be unbearable.Haze was unheard of then.

We also seem to think that we own the world therefore we can do whatever we like to god's other creatures. Just because animals can't talk we think they're dumb they don't have any feelings.

I don't know if i make any sense at all here but suffice it to say that most of the times, humans cruelty, greed and thoughtlessness to nature always make me wish that i don't live long enough to witness the destruction of this earth. Perhaps i'm a hypocrite because i'm sure i partly contribute this.