Two Worlds: One of Humans, One of Animals
by lim ju boo
Imagine, dear friend, that the Earth is divided into two parallel worlds.
Both worlds receive the same sunlight from the same faithful sun. Both have rivers flowing, rain falling, oceans breathing, forests growing, mountains standing, and fertile soil waiting to nourish life.
But there is one great difference.
In the first world, there are only humans.
In the second world, there are only animals.
No humans exist there.
Let us walk through both worlds and see what becomes of them.
World One: The Kingdom of Humans Alone
At first, this world appears magnificent.
Cities rise rapidly. Towers of glass and steel stretch toward the heavens. Roads spread like veins across the land. Machines roar. Factories breathe smoke. Ships cross the oceans. Aircraft cut through the skies.
Humans, gifted with intelligence, ambition, and invention, quickly transform the landscape.
Forests are cut for timber and land development.
Mountains are broken for minerals and metals.
Rivers are dammed and redirected.
Oil is pumped from the deep earth.
Coal is burned.
Gas is extracted.
Concrete replaces soil.
Plastic replaces wood.
Steel replaces stone.
The human world becomes efficient, productive, and powerful.
Food is no longer hunted, it is manufactured.
Animals are absent, so humans create artificial systems for pollination, pest control, and ecological balance, often at enormous cost.
The silence of birds is replaced by engines.
The songs of insects are replaced by electricity.
The night sky dims beneath artificial lights.
For a while, humans celebrate their triumph.
They call it progress.
They call it civilization.
But slowly, invisible cracks begin to appear.
Without animals, ecosystems collapse.
No bees mean poor pollination.
No worms mean poor soil renewal.
No birds mean uncontrolled insect populations.
No predators mean ecological imbalance.
The food chain breaks.
The soil weakens.
The rivers become sick.
The oceans fill with waste.
Air becomes harder to breathe.
Climate becomes unstable.
Floods become stronger.
Droughts become longer.
Storms become angrier.
And then comes the cruel truth:
Humans were not masters of nature.
They were only one thread in a great living tapestry.
As resources shrink, humans compete.
Competition becomes conflict.
Conflict becomes war.
Weapons evolve faster than wisdom.
Missiles replace dialogue.
Drones replace diplomacy.
The same intelligence that built cities now perfects destruction.
Eventually, the world of humans begins to consume itself.
Not because humans were evil—
but because intelligence without restraint becomes hunger without end.
This world may survive for centuries, perhaps millennia.
But unless humans rediscover humility, stewardship, and balance, their own brilliance may become the architect of their downfall.
Their greatest enemy was never nature.
It was themselves.
World Two: The Kingdom of Animals Alone
Now let us step into the second world.
There are no cities.
No factories.
No roads.
No banks.
No governments.
No wars.
No machines.
Only life.
The forests stand ancient and undisturbed.
Rivers run clear like crystal veins.
The oceans pulse with fish and whales.
Birds fill the skies.
Insects hum their endless work.
Predators hunt.
Herbivores graze.
Scavengers clean.
Worms rebuild the soil.
Fungi quietly recycle death into life.
Nothing is wasted.
Nothing is manufactured.
Nothing is hoarded.
Animals kill, yes—but only for food, survival, or defense.
A lion does not kill ten zebras for entertainment.
A wolf does not poison a river for profit.
An elephant does not destroy a forest to build a palace.
Nature operates with severe simplicity.
Life feeds life.
Death feeds life.
Balance governs all.
There is suffering, certainly.
There is hunger.
There is disease.
There is competition.
But there is no greed.
There is no ambition to dominate the entire planet.
There is no ideology.
There is no nuclear weapon.
There is no pollution made for convenience.
The Earth heals itself continuously.
Fallen trees become homes.
Dead animals become nourishment.
Waste becomes renewal.
The system is imperfect, but it is self-correcting.
This world could continue not for centuries—
but for millions of years.
As long as the sun shines, rain falls, and plants grow, life continues.
Not peacefully, perhaps—
but sustainably.
Not comfortably—
but truthfully.
The Great Lesson
The irony is profound.
The creature with the highest intelligence became the greatest danger to its own home.
The creatures with no universities, no philosophy, and no technology preserve balance far better.
Animals live within nature.
Humans often try to live above it.
That is the difference.
The tragedy is not that humans are powerful.
The tragedy is that humans often mistake power for wisdom.
Yet there is still hope.
Because humans also possess something extraordinary:
the ability to reflect,
to repent,
to choose,
and to change.
A tiger cannot become moral.
A human can.
A whale cannot write laws to protect the ocean.
A human can.
A bird cannot plant a forest for the future.
A human can.
Thus humans are not merely the most destructive creatures—
they are also the only creatures capable of consciously becoming guardians.
The same hand that destroys can also heal.
The same mind that invents weapons can invent peace.
The same species that wounds the Earth can also restore it.
Perhaps the Creator did not give humans dominion to dominate—
but responsibility to protect.
If humans forget this, World One will end in ashes.
If humans remember this, World One may yet become as beautiful as World Two.
And perhaps that choice—
more than intelligence itself—
is what truly defines humanity.
"And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creepth upon the earth"
(Genesis 1:26)
This verse represents the creation of humanity on the sixth day, emphasizing a unique relationship between God, humans and all creatures on earth for human survival by granting humans consciousness and reasoning and
sacrificing animals only for food
Read my write up here:
From Fire to Fallout: The Ascent, Burden and Fall of Homo sapiens
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2026/04/from-fire-to-fallout-ascent-burden-and.html
Humans today no longer reflect the perfect, unblemished image of God as they did when first created, a purity lost when the serpent deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden.
In my closing thought, let me refer to this verb Jesus predicted in His Sermon on the Mount:
"The meek shall inherit the earth"
(Matthew 5:5)
When humans destroys themselves as the last to appear, but the first to disappear from the surface of this earth through their own greed, technology and weapons of mass destruction, the meeker, humbler, and more primitive creatures that were the first to evolve or created to colonize this planet, they shall once again regain their inheritance of their only home.
Jesus also said:
"Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore"
(Luke 23:29).
Wasn't not Jesus right?
Suppose, dear friends and readers, if you were to chose between these two contrasting worlds - in a Garden of Eden among animals, or in concrete jungle
among only humans with no animal around, which world would you chose to stay? Write me your opinion and comments to share. Thank you.
