rainwolfkin

and the dogs shall rule the earth...

I could get boring on this topic ..... I agree with what you said on Tue. I don't go along with that 'Gaia' idea, that the earth is ultimately interested in sustaining human life even if it means acting when the balance is disturbed but i do think of the earth as an organism with a form of sentience and that to it we are a destructive parasite.
For our part it seems to be 'our' (as humans) role to be environmentally shortsighted & be unable to grasp that something has to give: The human population continues to increase regardless of future effects on the planet. "So what if the rain forests are destroyed, I got cheap beef. I don't give a monkeys' about no monkeys".
Oops! Brazil = dustbowl.
Essentially our 'leaders' and industrial conglomerations, and the idiots (see first two), for all their knowledge and (less than a million years of) experience can't see the bigger picture any better than a leopard stalking a gazelle: its only interest is in its next meal, not that the gazelle is the last female of its kind. The earth is bigger than we are & has the means to control any of its inhabitants that damage it. I wonder if viruses which mutate and cause pandemics are the earth's equivalent of our producing a new vaccine?