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Let’s be honest for a second \u2014 we humans are really good at one thing: using what benefits us and forgetting about it the moment it doesn’t. We are wired to take. And rarely, if ever, do we stop to think about what we leave behind.<\/p>\n
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Remember when you were a kid and begged your parents for a puppy? That excitement, those pleading eyes \u2014 yours, not the dog’s \u2014 was irresistible. But how many of those puppies ended up abandoned once they got old, sick, or simply inconvenient?<\/p>\n
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And even the love we do give \u2014 it’s selective. We go crazy over fluffy, fancy, high-breed dogs.<\/p>\n
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But the indie dog sitting outside your gate? We walk right past. No food. Not even a glance. That says a lot about us.<\/p>\n
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Winter rolls in and suddenly everyone is a forest lover \u2014 bonfires, camping trips, chopping wood like it is a personality trait. Great vibes. Terrible habits.<\/p>\n
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Fast forward to summer. We are sitting under a tree, sweating, silently thanking the sky for the shade. But we cut those trees. We cleared those forests for our weekend getaways. And now we are surprised the temperatures keep rising every year?<\/p>\n
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world loses approximately 10 million hectares of forest every year \u2014 mostly driven by agriculture, urban expansion, and human recreational activity (FAO, 2020).<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to say out loud: everything is connected.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When we abandon sick dogs on the streets, diseases like rabies don’t disappear \u2014 they quietly build up and circle back to the next generation. The WHO estimates that rabies causes approximately 59,000 human deaths annually worldwide, with stray dog bites responsible for up to 99% of cases (WHO, 2023).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When we destroy forests for fun and convenience, the rising temperatures are not a coincidence \u2014 they are a direct consequence. We set these things in motion. And then we act shocked when they circle back to us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am not here to lecture anyone \u2014 I am figuring this out too. But I genuinely believe it is time we start seeing the bigger picture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The dog you ignored. The tree you cut. The plastic you tossed. None of it just disappears. As responsible individuals living in the 21st century \u2014 with more information than any generation before us \u2014 we owe it to ourselves and to the planet to do better.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n If we don’t care for our environment and the living beings around us, they will not care for us either. And when that moment comes \u2014 we will have no one to blame but ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Just something worth thinking about today. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Uncomfortable Truth About Us Let’s be honest for a second \u2014 we humans are really good at one thing: using what benefits us and forgetting about it the moment it doesn’t. We are wired to take. And rarely,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[369,6,377],"class_list":["post-902105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-health-day","tag-day","tag-health","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902108,"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902105\/revisions\/902108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iapsm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h2>\n
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Every Action Has a Reaction \u2014 Always<\/h3>\n
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