Nine's blog

How comes, when you're watching porn you are sleazy, but when you watch a couple of baboons or lions go at it you are sophisticated and educated? Anyway, I saw a bunch of babies getting made today.
Through years of watching documentaries, of reading about history and learning about what humans did to this world, my view of the future has become downright gloomy. After all, if there is one thing we humans are really good at, it's destroying things. Our petty fights for status and fleeting glory, for power over people long gone and land long forgotten, have cost us so much of what should amaze and sustain us. With us being us, it can only end in us losing it all.
Now being here, enveloped by the vastness of the delta and its abundance of life in all shapes and forms, I am starting to question my views.
If the people of a poor country like Botswana can break the cycle of exploitation and protect this treasure, then maybe, just maybe there is still a chance.
As I watch all these herds and packs with their babies, the congregations and swarms and the occasional young introverts and then even a tortoise escaping from the fangs of a lion, I realize that maybe it still exists. That elusive feeling that I thought lost. Hope.