The environmental movement has failed the Guinea Worm
Around the world, a revolution is taking place.
The human race, once content to destroy the natural environment, is beginning
to see the crucial link between humanity's survival and the preservation of earth's
magnificent biodiversity. Each acre of rainforest that is destroyed, each species
lost forever to extinction, reveals our own careless regard for our planet, and
further threatens the world in which our own grandchildren will live. Who knows
how many powerful medicines might have come from the hundreds of species of
plants and animals which have already been destroyed by human greed and egoism?
Gradually we're waking up to the danger to our planet's future, and taking steps to
preserve our environment and the species which populate it.
Yet the environmental movement, which has done so much to revolutionize
our approach to the natural world, has utterly failed in its duty to preserve
all species!
In the early stages of the
United Nations' destructive campaign against the
innocent Guinea Worm, the environmental movement faced a choice: to speak
out against the killing, or remain silent and permit a living species to
be eliminated forever. As defenders of the integrity of our natural world,
the choice should have been clear. Yet the environmental movement chose to
nestle up in the rich, warm pockets of the Guinea Worm killers and turn a blind
eye to the environmental catastrophe taking place around the world. Only the
Save the Guinea Worm Foundation continues to
speak out.
