Despite Our Very Recent Appearance On The

Despite Our Very Recent Appearance On The Planet, Humanity Combines Arrogance With Increasing Material Demands, Even As We Become More Numerous. Our Toughness Is A Delusion. Have We The Intelligence And Discipline To Vigilantly Guard Against Our Tendency To Grow Without Limit?

The Notion Of Saving The Planet Has Nothing To Do With Intellectual Honesty Or Science. The Fact Is That The Planet Was Here Long Before Us And Will Be Here Long After Us. The Planet Is Running Fine. What People Are Talking About Is Saving Themselves And Saving Their Middle-class Lifestyles And Saving Their Cash Flow.

To Me, The Human Move To Take Responsibility For The Living Earth Is Laughable - The Rhetoric Of The Powerless. The Planet Takes Care Of Us, Not We Of It. Our Self-inflated Moral Imperative To Guide A Wayward Earth, Or Heal Our Sick Planet, Is Evidence Of Our Immense Capacity For Self Delusion. Rather, We Need To Protect Ourselves From Ourselves.

Body Concentrates Order. It Continuously Self-repairs. Every Five Days You Get A New Stomach Lining. You Get A New Liver Every Two Months. Your Skin Replaces Itself Every Six Weeks. Every Year, 98 Percent Of The Atoms Of Your Body Are Replaced. This Non-stop Chemical Replacement, Metabolism, Is A Sure Sign Of Life.

We Are Unconscious Of Most Of Our Body's Processes, Thank Goodness, Because We'd Screw It Up If We Weren't. The Human Body Is So Complex, With So Many Parts...a System Which Is Far More Complex Than We Can Fully Imagine. The Idea That We Are Consciously Care-taking Such A Large And Mysterious System Is Ludicrous.