Healthy Taker Environment

Cole Student
Coach Salber
22 May 2017
 The Taker lifestyle is one of endless destruction that continues to destroy more and more

every day that we live like we are gods. As we continue to live the way we are, our Earth is

polluted, stripped of her resources, and all of her life forms are hurt. Our cars and other

technology produce CO2 that strips away the ozone layer and allows the climate to change every

day. Resources are being taken from the land and the animals that need them, thus killing them.

We only care about ourselves and because of that we are destroying predators, taking what they

consume and ruining food webs all over the world. Destruction of our beautiful Earth continues

every day, but it is not too late to stop what we are doing and undo the Taker lifestyle we have

constructed. Humans can learn to be healthy Takers and live together with all of the other life

forms on our planet.

A healthy Taker is a Taker that does not live like a Taker or a hunter-gather, they are the

happy medium between the two. Healthy Takers care about other life, and not just themselves. If

we became healthy Takers we would not lose the way we are living, it would just become

greener and less toxic to all other life forms. Humans would reduce carbon emissions, control the

population and making it decline at a steady rate as humanly as possible, and take less from the

environment. Reducing carbon emissions would have to be done to prevent the burning off of the

ozone layer. The population needs to go down in order to make room for other forms of life on

this planet and use less resources. If we keep taking from the environment like we are, there will

be nothing left for those who come after us. We need to share the food we produce with those

who cannot get it and consume only what we need to live a healthy life. Doing these things is

what will make us healthy Takers environmentally, but not completely healthy.

The first step in becoming healthy Takers is changing humanity’s mindset and stop

listening to mother culture. As a whole we treat what is ours however we want and because we
think the Earth is ours we will never treat it with the respect that is needed to live peacefully on

it. In our minds we are focused on race, religion, power, and political background. For us to

change our minds we need to grow up as a whole and realize (or be taught) that we were all

created differently and will never all be the same. Along with growing up, people need to learn

(or be taught) that humans are not the only living thing on this planet and we need to share the

planet. “Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A Community of a hundred

million species can survive almost anything short of total global catastrophe” (Ishmael, 130).

Humans need to realize that for life to survive, we must protect other species not destroy them.

Changing someone's mind set is not something that is easily done, but there has been

research showing that over time we slowly become like those we spend time with. To start the

movement, the people that have been told what is happening would have to act on what was said

and explain that we are not exempt from the food chain laws. Not everyone’s mind needs to be

changed at once, only 51% of people need to realize what we are doing is wrong and will only

kills us in the end. If 51% of people can realize what is wrong then we can make changes. When

51% of all people realize that something needs to be done that is when we can start the next part

of the plan.

The second step in becoming healthy Talkers is figuring out what a healthy Taker looks

like and actually is. In Ishmael there are Takers and Leavers, both are on completely different

ends of the scale. Takers are humanity now and Leavers are hunter gathers. There is no way that

we can all going back to being Leavers, because that would be too big of a mindset change. We

as a whole (not just the rich, the white, or the politicians can do this alone) need to find the

middle ground that is a healthy Taker. Everyone needs to have a say because only then can we

actually change what is happening.

 There is no one right healthy Taker, there can be many different forms, but there is

something that all healthy Takers must not do when pertaining to the environment. Healthy

Takers must not kill predators or deny predators food, act like gods and treat the world as their

own, and lastly take everything from the environment. If predators are killed then humans are

ensuring not just their own, but everyone’s demise. When humans act like gods we end up

populating the word more than it can hold and over using resources. Finally we cannot take

everything from the environment because when we do we pollute the Earth and kill others that

may also need to use those resources. Humans as a whole need to find what a healthy Takers

look like and find out what we are doing wrong.

If we are to become healthy Takers, then the third step in this plan is to develop a plan for

becoming a healthy Taker. Those who supported and tried to figure out what a healthy taker

looks like now need to come to terms with how they are going to change the world and a great

deal of people may not like what is going to happen to the world. The plan must be supported by

at least 51% of people. For the plan to work it has to be as humane as possible. To some

population control may not be humane, but it would be necessary if we are to quit being Takers.

What we must actually do is going to be difficult because it will go against Mother

Culture. Mother culture has always told us what to do and we have listened, now is the time to

stop because she has been killing us ever so slowly. What we need to do is reduce carbon

emissions, control the population and making it decline at a steady rate as humanly as possible,

and take less from the environment. As mentioned earlier, these are what makes a Taker healthy

environmentally and will allow us to become the best versions of ourselves. If we do not do

these things, then we will never become healthy.

 The fourth and final step would be to execute the process of reducing carbon emissions,

controlling the population and making it decline at a steady rate as humanly as possible, and

taking less from the environment. We would have to put up things like a carbon tax to promote

being greener, put up laws saying how many kids you can have (two to keep the population from

going up and one to lower it), and eat healthier. Acting on the plan is what would make us

healthy Takers. Doing all four of these steps may take many years to complete, but they are what

will help us survive and live harmoniously with the rest of the world.

As time goes on and the plan has been enacted, many things may change. Certain

countries may have to do more drastic things to lower their populations, such as telling people

they have to leave their home country. We may find a fully renewable resource that does not

produce carbon, thus being able to lift the carbon tax. Humans may start to like being healthier

and with the population down may be able to produce a little junk food every now and again.

There are too many variables to know at this moment what would happen, but as long as people

stick to the plan life will get better for everyone on the planet, human or not.

The path to becoming healthy Takers environmentally will not be easy, but by following

these four steps we will be able to. Life for everyone will become better and healthier. It may

take a while to change peoples minds and get them to quit listening to Mother Culture, but

nobody said it would be easy to change. We should not become healthy Takers for animals, we

should do it for ourselves, because if we do it will make it a lot easier.

 Works Cited

Quinn, Daniel. Ismael. New York, NY.: Bantam, 1993. Print.