The Disparateness of Planet Earth

I was watching the news from Mexico City a couple of weeks ago while the space shuttle was docked at the International Space Station. They were discussing the wonders of the space station and the abilities of the astronauts to make improvements and repairs and even the addition of the new treadmill. Then the news cut to a scene in South Africa in which there were dozens of elephants slaughtered for their ivory tusks. Elephants face many dangers as it is but added to it is the needless killing of these beautiful creatures. It is incredible to me to see how we humans can use our wonderful brains to propel ourselves into outer space and develop new ways to explore space and at the same time be so brutal, have such little regard for animal life and all for the greed and desire to sell ivory in the underground market and obviously people with money want to buy ivory objects or the poachers would not go to such lengths to obtain it.
I hope one day that all levels of society can respect all forms of life on Earth and learn to keep it clean and as natural as possible while still trying to explore space so that we can bring with us the same peaceful and respectful values into the outer edges of the galaxy.