You Can’t Bomb the Soil and Call It Peace

Salamanders are vanishing.

Not because nature has failed them, but because humanity has. Their habitats are torn apart — forests flattened, wetlands drained, ecosystems shattered in the name of “progress,” “security,” “development.”But underneath those words lies the same old violence: the erasure of what is different, wild, uncontrollable.

They say some lands must be cleared, occupied, reshaped. That certain lives are expendable — inconvenient. But nature does not forget. When you uproot life with poison and fire, it doesn't disappear quietly. It resists. Slowly. Silently. But relentlessly.

The salamander is more than a species. It's a symbol — of regeneration, of persistence. Try to wipe it out, and it returns, stronger. That’s the truth tyrants never learn: what grows from the soil cannot be erased by force. You can bomb a forest, but you can't kill the seed.

And here’s the part we keep missing: every living thing matters. Whether you call it a pest or a prophet, nature sees no hierarchy. The web of life doesn’t ask for your politics. Pull one thread — flood one valley, silence one voice, pave over one river — and the whole system starts to fall apart.

We build walls and drop bombs and call it order. But the earth knows better. It was designed — by whatever divine force you believe in — with balance, with purpose. And we’re dismantling it.

You don't need to scroll through headlines or memorize talking points to see what’s wrong. Just look at a salamander struggling to breathe in a dried-up stream. That’s the future we’re building — for them, and for ourselves.

So I wish for everyone to spend less time shouting and more time listening — really listening — to the whispers of the wild. Because without justice for the smallest of lives, there will be no peace for the rest of us.

No sustainable future without coexistence. No freedom for some without dignity for all. No lasting peace until we stop pretending the earth belongs to us, and start remembering we belong to it.