Does Mother Nature care about Man?

It would appear not.

Not if you look at the evolution of species. It is fair to say that no other creature has had more of a sudden impact upon the planet though time than man. But are we just a brilliant shooting star, here one moment and gone the next? Certainly if you look at the state of play in terms of how man is behaving towards himself and all other life forms, then it would be a brave man to bet upon him sticking around long enough to even make a small spike in the evolutionary graph of mother Earth. In fact the wise money would be on man being the species that died out quicker than all others throughout time.

And why should she?

I'm a firm believer in balance and generally speaking, physics favours equilibrium. So looking at the world at the moment with the Wars, the Hunger, the great chasm between the haves and have nots, then it would seem that Mother nature is bound to address the balance sooner rather than later. There are epidemics of diseases wiping out millions in Africa, the Wars are wiping out Millions elsewhere, the scales are tipping, and I would say, Man is engineering his own slide into the Abyss of History. And of course if you have ever been on a sledge in the snow on a steep hill, you'll know that it doesn't get slower as you go down.

Humans have their fate in their own hands, they can choose to end up as the next aeon's fossil fuels or they can jump off the sledge, claw at the snow for dear life and start back uphill digging the heels in as they go. Or they can let mother nature do what she has always done, allowing life forms to develop in the environment that is available. Because lets face it she'll never lose. She has ways of allowing life forms to survive. Just look at the Bacteria that hug the deep sea volcanic vents. Thousands of degrees in a chemical laden cocktail of poisons! Maybe we'll just end up as one of her less successful experiments.

I would recommend jumping off the sledge, as hitting the metaphorical Pine tree, will just result in the exudation of more turpentine and a ready supply of oil for the next species that learns to use tools.

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