Reaction After watcning Jane Goodall's TED Talk

After watching Jane Goodall’s speech, a feeling of shame rushed into me. Jane said that we human are not much different from the chimpanzees because they too have emotions, knows physical and mental suffering, have a sense of humor and have the ability to invent and use tools. If they are not much different than us, why should they be locked up in the cage? The reason is this, we want to be superior. We want to rule the world and twist is around if we feel like it. It took us very long to accept the fact the chimpanzees are not much different to us. It is true that we humans have a greater power but we abused this power. Instead of using this power to help, we destroy. Just like what Ishmael said, we think we are the peak of the creation. We think our destiny is to rule the world in our own way because we are the chosen one. But the more advance we get, we realized more things. We realized that mother earth is far more powerful than us. A simple earthquake can destroy a whole city, a simple tsunami can sink a whole island. This is not what human want. There’s is no way we could rule the world like this. So humans challenged mother earth. We open up a mountain is we want to get through and we fill up a lake if we want more lands. Humans are too arrogant and will never give up until we fully conquered the world. We humans not only pressure the animals, we also put pressure on the native humans. This is according to Ishmael, the Leavers. They are indigenous who lives in the deep forest and up in the mountains. They live with the nature peacefully and understand the way we should live. Ishmael said we humans need to find the way to live and the Leavers is doing just fine in their forest. Sadly, instead of asking for helps, we went and tried to take over land. We went into their forest and dig holes just to find oils. They helplessly defend themselves but this doesn’t seem to work because no one outside knows about the fight in the forest. This is just like what Ishmael said, humans use to travel around the world to find food and we don’t stay in the same area for a long time. But, when agriculture begins, human started growing food and raises more kids. This repeats and humans eventually decide to growing more then what we needed. This is similar to what Jane Goodall said about hunters. They use to only kill what is needed to feed them. But as time goes, hunters turned greedy and started killing more then what they needed. Some is restored for food, but most of them are sold to merchant for profits. This is very disgusting when I heard Jane Goodall said it. If we don’t change our greediness, one day we might bring extinction to all animals! Another similarity Jane Goodall, Ishmael and other scientist from TED have is that all of them seek help from the readers or the audiences. They know that not all human beings are the same and there are some peoples out there that also want to save the world. So they are trying to convince the open minded people. Ishmael is using a lot of lessons and challenges to get the reader opened up. This way we won’t forget what we’ve learned. E.O Wilson and Phil Borges try to convince the audience by power speech with true statements. For Jane Goodall, she chooses another way. Her method is using Roots and Shoots programme. This is just a union that teaches peoples how to save the world. Kind of like the Global Ethics class now. Another thing about Jane Goodall and other peoples is that they give us hope. After all the terrible facts, they gives us hope for the better future. In the end, Jane said that the hope of our planet is in our hand and if we want, we could change the world over night.