Life.
I often wonder about the value of something alive -- why humans think we are so special; and why we dominate, oppress and exterminate every other species -- even including members of our own genus.
In order to justify such killing, we invent supernatural and scientific logic to justify our deliberate intervention in the natural order of things. Either we invoke some kind of pre-ordained right to fuck with everything around us; or we justify our intervention with rationalizing our need to satiate our innate sense of curiosity.
Nothing is exempt -- from the lowest of single-celled organisms to the complexity of the largest of animals.
We are so smug in our attempts to control and dominate -- and in our petty attempts @ divinity -- we alter the very genetic fabric of living flora and fauna (and ourselves) with little regard for long term ecological and biological consequences.
And we even have the audacity to think it okay for humanity to manipulate the minutest of sub-atomic particles to attempting to affect the very nature of other celestial bodies as moons, comets and meteors, and other planets. That this is our right, because, after all we are human, aren't we?
We are so smug in our attempts to control and dominate -- and in our petty attempts @ divinity -- we alter the very genetic fabric of living flora and fauna (and ourselves) with little regard for long term ecological and biological consequences.
And we even have the audacity to think it okay for humanity to manipulate the minutest of sub-atomic particles to attempting to affect the very nature of other celestial bodies as moons, comets and meteors, and other planets. That this is our right, because, after all we are human, aren't we?
What is sad is Gaia (and the rest of the micro- and macro-Universe) existed quite nicely for billions of years plus or minus a few catastrophic events as meteor collisions, massive volcanic eruptions and planetary shifting of magnetic poles and angle of axis.
But in each case -- even when most of the species were eradicated by a particular cataclysmic event -- after a few thousand to million years, the planet healed itself. And Life continued.
The problem is that humanity's current impact on life on Earth is having the same initial impact as one of these catastrophes. And if we continue, we may end up being so thorough in disrupting the natural order of things, the destructive impact of our reckless disregard for everything alive will be irreversible.
And if we manage to somehow move beyond our planet before we destroy it entirely, as encouraged by Stephen W. Hawking, will we destroy everything else in our path as well?
And if we manage to somehow move beyond our planet before we destroy it entirely, as encouraged by Stephen W. Hawking, will we destroy everything else in our path as well?
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