Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 14, 2016
July 08, 2016
July 15, 2016
Transcript:
For millions and millions of years, the planet was governed by the delicate and complex equilibria that evolved among its infinite, interconnecting forces. In the last 100 or so years, mankind has so profoundly altered the face of earth that those equilibria have been permanently obliterated. What new force will replace "Natural Equilibrium" in ruling the ecosystem? The Bureaucrat! Watch out nature! Theres a new boss in town! More wolves inwyominf! Floods in the Grand Canyon every ten...no five year! Fewer alligators in Florida! Save the cougar, let the prairie mouse go extinct! Can Humanity manage a system as complex as the ecosystem? Look at how well humans manage and understand their own economic system-- which they created! The earth has to accept him! Why? How species made him necessary!
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Darsan54 Premium Member over 8 years ago
Hmmmmm, so what you’re saying is government bureaucrats are the sole source of problems in the ecosystems? And the farmers, miners, lumbermen, cattlemen and developers had nothing at all to do with it?
Isn’t it kinda dark with your head shoved waaaay up there?
Eclectic-1 over 8 years ago
The idea of nature being a “delicate and complex equilibria” is a Victorian illusion that should have been thrown on the trash heap of time long ago. Nature is in a constantly changing and potentially deadly tug-o-war, as in just wait for the next super volcano in Yosemite. Just read how often the phrase “when suddenly” applies inhistory. The Titanic was sailing just fine when suddenly.The same is true for the way global heating (man-made) combines with the effects of natural warming – there is a tripping point, just like slowly pushing a light switch to the “on” position. It is in trying to “tame” nature we are destroying it. Read about the consequences to the ecology caused by the Aswan dam in Egypt.Having grown up in South Florida and seeing how the Army Corps of Engineers has virtually destroyed the Everglades and almost destroyed theunderground aquafer with the cross Florida barge canal, I have to agree with Bolling on this one. Beware the “developers”.
3pibgorn9 over 8 years ago
That’s not the point. The deal that it’s symbolic of how our dysfunctional system works(?)
dr_suess over 8 years ago
It’s from 1996, and probably relates to this news clip…. It’s likely a “big Government” cartoon
Rep. Jim Saxton had drafted a bill to create a National Institute for the Environment, to be funded by combining environmental research programs from several federal agencies so that it would require no new financing. The idea was pursued by the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) of the National Science and Technology Council. In May 1996 the CENR was said to be exploring ways of merging all federal environmental programs into a single network responsible for ecological research and monitoring and reportedly had identified about 30 suitable programs.
gorbasche2 over 8 years ago
Kill all bureaucrats!
Malcolm Hall over 8 years ago
When people disappear, the ecosystem gets hunky-dory again. Just look at Chernobyl. Sure a few deer have two heads but on the whole….
gorbasche2 over 8 years ago
KILL ALL NAYSAYERS!