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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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”.