Looking at Facebook this morning, I just read the the African Black Rhino has been declared officially extinct, which makes me very sad. A friend commented, "take a ticket, our turn is coming," or something to that effect.
I thought about it for awhile and a thought that has been floating around for a long time in my mind crystallized, so I thought I'd share it: What is the problem here? From what I've been able to tell, most of the native cultures were not headed toward over exploitation of resources, and self annihilation, (it may have happened locally, but at least not on a global scale), so the problem is the culture that we have developed. Cultures can change, so we CAN change our culture, and we MUST change it, since everything and everyone that we care about depends on it. Please change, mindfully.
