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The Next Extinction

What if your home is invaded by some interlopers? The place you

roamed freely get occupied by extraneous beings and your life comes
to “Survival of the fittest” and you are relegated from “The Most

Supreme Character” on earth to a “Forlorn with a Price Tag”? What if
efficacy of your nukes is futile against their weapons?

hat if your skin becomes a commodity, your hair a life-
threatening adornment, your organs an aphrodisiac? What if
Wyour skin could help to make their purses or shoes or cloths?
What if man-hunt become a game and the fittest and greatest of you
are hunted and perished for trophy hunting? What if your stuffed head
become a status symbol? What if you are demoted to circus humans
and your helplessness is cheered upon? . What if they invade your
space, label you as dangerous and kill you in sanctity of your own home?

What if we humans poached all these animals but our greed for their
skins, bones and tusks isn’t quenched?

And what if we humans who are doing this to other species after
depleting them completely start finding the “so called” qualities of
organs, skins or bones or amusement from each other?

And then there will be another mass extinction.
“The extinction of Homo sapiens by Homo sapiens”.

Rehan Ul Haq
Phd-Natural Resources Management

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