Now, do you have this straight?

Mother Earth is a resilient soul.

She has been around for billions and billions of years. She evolves, morphs and balances all the forces that travel her way.

We on the other hand, are how old? Let's get this straight. We come onto the scene because of nature's forces, her continual "killing off of things" and her renewal of things. We may have evolved from tiny organisms that survive thermal vents, caustic environment and just unbelievable life chocking conditions. Maybe that, maybe aliens, maybe religious creationism. But we came about because of nature's changing freeze, thaw, freeze, caustic air, clean air, volcanoes chocking our envelope of life.

Homo sapiens an animal as much a part of nature just like any other thing, creature and life and not-so-life form on earth come onto the party very late in the game and we want to set nature straight; and based on how long is our wisdom? Crocodiles have lived and survived longer than us. Is their life span longer than ours -- without all that technology? They must be doing some thing sorta 'right'. Ya think?

Take a break -- what is the life span of a warbler? He/she does not look to worried? Sweet!

Photos by non-nature deficiet disorder ed-- Pam Wells, Old Town, Maine


We get alarmed when species we are just discovering are threatened to extinction. Well the fact is, I think, more species have gone extinct in nature's billions and billions of years than homo sapiens 10's of thousands of years. And, if extinction had not occurred, the question could be would we have 'evolved" into the species we are today? Would we even exist?

Let's get this straight. Is the question really about global warming, green and carbon offsets? Or, is the question can we easily fix some of these 'perceived ills' simply by doing with less, including less homo sapiens on the earth producing less stuff. Nature has her ways of regulating life. Animal populations, evolution and existence cycles spike and drop over very long periods -- by nature.

Humans, since we are so highly intelligent and seemingly 'above nature' just need to stop creating so many humans at such a high rate. Investing in unproven, limited, and very short-lived technology is not necessarily the best or only way. Better air filtration or less bodies making bad air? Better recycling, or just produce less garbage by having less people? I hope nature's common sense prevails above man's technological intellect. She's proven; we're not.

We pass wildlife resource management policy, nature conservation policy, legal regulations and impose fairly ridiculous thinking on nature that attempts "to unnaturally freeze and stop" what is in the bigger scheme of nature and life a mere blip. Herd mentality -- hurry up do this save this animal, hurry up rush over here the ice is melting......dump a bunch of scientific soup mix in the ocean so more carbon gets digested......go to space colonize another planet and use up it's resources. Send people to another planet because we are chocking ours. We have not even learned how to manage ourselves and we think we should expand into space...? Isn't this in fact, colonizing history repeating itself on just a grander scale?

Let's get this straight. Your town passes ordinances to "keep the land like it was 50 years ago", to keep the habit the same so the same animals stay? The animals won't stay nor should they. Pinpoint thinking like this is more detrimentral because so many "smart growth intellectuals" have a serious case of "nature deficiet disorder" or a least funny nature glasses. Okay, let's create more forest fringe and longer corridors because it is good for animals. Well, some animals ... the ones they like to see. But not all animals thrive this way. Or, the farming family that has existed in this area for hundreds of years and stewarded the land -- nope, they smell too much to those nature deficiet disorder intellectuals. Cows, we don't need 'em now. I buy my milk at my nature store. Don't need cows; what are they good for any way -- too much methane in 'em. Nope, not us, we want our fringe forest and corridors.

Of course, none of that was 'there' a couple of 10's of thousand's of years ago -- too cold and had to drill miles through the ice to go ice fishing!

One thing is straight -- homo sapiens have extreme species hubris syndrome. Mother Nature will naturally lower our herd populations. Our control hubris may be our psychedelic koolaid; it colors our need to control other humans, other things, other animals, the natural methane, and the carbon.

Maybe the straightest way is to practice a day a week just "Being" instead of rushing, doing and controlling. Go out and "B" with nature instead of controlling her -- you just might get close to seeing it straight like nature.

My carbon footprint to write this blog is how much? That's huge!

Have a great day, take things with a natural sea grain of salt and always maintain your humor and filter this with your own intellect and stay with the herd -- in numbers it is statiscally safe.