There are people, some comments in this blog bear witness, deny Climate Change categorically.

Be it as it is. Either the climate is changing or not. The slim chance that it might happen should be reason enough to get prepared for a worst-case scenario. If the climate will not change after all, nothing will be lost. We will just have paid a kind of insurance fee, to be prepared for all eventualities.

But this should not concern us in this post. The topic is the behavior of us humans towards nature. This behavior can only be called a state of war against nature. Just look at the devastation of the forests. Although the so called illegal deforestation has declined in the past years the forest is still only regarded as a never ending supplier of timber for human beings. Regardless of the important role of the forest as a main source of Photosynthesis.

The other picture shows how a healthy forest has to look like!

The forest is only one example. The recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is another example. The list of devastation is endless. We only pay attention to the tip of the Iceberg of the ecological catastrophes. The little ones are not even noticed anymore, the media only reports the major incidents.

Still the destruction of nature is not to be overseen. Mankind regards nature just as something to be exploited. Nature is the modern time Proletariat! An entity without rights, which can be exploited without remorse.

This a very short sighted way of looking at nature. Nature, so the theory, strives for Balance. This tendency of nature is profoundly disturbed by human beings. First of all by the sheer size of world population, which will grow by 30%, from 7 billion to 9 billion in 2050, and the regardless behavior of mankind to this balance.

As human beings we are confronted with the unknown. How delicate this balance on earth is, is an unknown factor. It took earth about 4.5 billion years to achieve the balance in which humanity could blossom and reach this stage of existence. But now humanity is disturbing the balance of nature and a Climate Change becomes a distinct possibility. Professor Frank Fenner believes that humanity becomes extinct within the next 100 years. Perhaps this prognosis is too pessimistic but it is still a possibility. And why not? It has to be kept in mind, that if a dog bites the hand that feeds him, the dog will be put to sleep.

And if humanity bites the hand that feeds it, nature or evolution, just might get rid of us humans in order to reestablish the balance!

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