If rhino horn was so great for fertility you would expect there to be more of them wouldn’t you?
Poetry – The Horn – a poem about rhinoceroses and their imminent extinction. An Anthropocene Apocalypse poem.
The Horn
I’ve got the horn
Ripped straight
From the Head
Does wonders in Bed.
An explosion of lead
Stagger
And dead.
Hacked clean
Into something
Obscene.
Poor eyesight;
It never saw us
The very last
Rhinoceros.
Opher 4.7.2015
We are rapidly wiping out the wild things, the forests, the wilderness as we increase in number and extend our range. Soon the whole world will be a huge concrete and plastic jungle.
We may keep the DNA safe so that in saner times it might be reconstituted into living organisms.
One day, when we’ve become wiser and more civilised, there might be a programme to reinstate nature. I’m not sure I would completely approve. Designed wilderness is a poor substitute but perhaps it will be better than nothing.
If we survive that long.
The rhino is doomed because of superstition and money. You may as well use nail filings as rhino horn. They are exactly the same keratin. There is no medicinal value. It does not give you the horn. Yet the customers will pay. The rhinos will pay and the hunters get paid. That is how decision in this world get made.
Anthropocene Apolcalypse – The rhino. Destroyed by Chinese superstition.
We are busy pushing the rhino to the edge of extinction for one reason – some ignorant, superstitious people believe that the rhino’s horn will improve their virility. Because the rhino horn is so hard they think it will make their penises hard. A bit of ground up rhino horn is used in Chinese medicine to cure impotency.
Sometimes we are floored by the sheer stupidity of some people’s beliefs. Yet millions of people believe in this flawed logic.
Rhino horn is made of keratin. It is the same substance as hair or finger-nails. It is in fact nothing more that hardened conglomerated hair. It had no medicinal value what-so-ever. You would get as much effect by chewing your own finger-nails. It does nothing for impotence or virility – nothing, nada, nix, fuck all.
It is not a cure for impotence.
Yet the incredible rhino is being mercilessly hunted to extinction for a ridiculous belief, a discredited superstition.
It is about time that we started caring for the plants and animals around us on this beautiful planet. It is about time we left this primitive superstition behind us. A lot of Chines medicine is superstitious quackery with no medical foundation.
Let us take the good stuff out of the Chinese practice and test it properly. Some of it has a solid foundation in herbal remedy. Some of it is primitive nonsense. Some is poisonous rubbish and some is destroying our wild-life.
Ban Chinese medicine until it has been properly scientifically tested. Any Chinese herbalists who are stocking parts of animals from endangered animals should be locked up for a long time.
Anthropocene Apocalypse – Isaac Asimov’s vision of the Earth as a world of steel could be real.
Back in the 1950s Isaac Asimov wrote some brilliant Sci-fi books.
In his dystopian vision overpopulation had created an Earth that was so overpopulated that there were no longer open spaces. All the natural world had been destroyed. The whole Earth was one huge city. People lived in caves of steel. A number of other Sci-fi writers have painted similar visions of the future.
It all seemed very far-fetched and futuristic. It does not seem that way now. We appear to be sleep-walking into this nightmare.
My book ‘The Anthropocene Apocalypse’ illustrates clearly the rapid speed of this approaching nightmare. There is a mammalian holocaust as a result of the rapidly expanding population of humans. This has to be addressed urgently.
Please read my book and help change things. The solutions are explained.