Represent, Represent.

After three hundred thousand years of battling against "drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand storms," [Muir, 189] the Calaveras King Sequoias are being destroyed by sawmills; manmade machines that have no role in the natural ecological process. Unfortunately, these Sequoias -- referred to as Christ-like figures -- have been cut down for superfluous reasons, such as to build a dance floor or worse: to simply "show how fine and big [the] Calveras tree [can be]." [Muir, 188] The U.S. government, however, did not seem to mind these foolish acts, for on March 3rd, 1905 (?), the "House passed a bill providing for the Government acquisition of the Calaveras giants." [Muir, 189] If someone were to want to build a national park preserving these trees then they would have to purchase the land because, sadly, the "government has sold every section of the entire redwood belt from the Oregon boundary to below Santa Cruz." [Muir, 190] It is mind-blowing to discover the destruction of such majestic organisms. Although irrational, I believe that since humans have certain inalienable rights, the land -- and all that it is composed of -- should as well. It would be difficult to determine what resources, regions, etc are considered part of the land and how they would represent/defend themselves against industrialization, but at this point it is necessary. A worldwide organization, that protects the rights of the land should be created, in an effort to prevent unnecessary logging and exploitation of resources. If not, the natural world will continue to be destroyed at an exponential rate.