APRIL 12, 2006
The
web of life is an intricate and delicate fabric woven over the millennia. Who are we to tamper with a system so in balance through time that its very viability is now in question? Contrary to the apologists for the industry's committed to accelerating the collapse, men such as John Stossel the so-called objective news commentator and Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute, the unraveling of creation is underway and they are part of the problem.
One wise and profound friend once reminded me that every part of the web of life is essential for the integrity of the whole. Who are we to determine that the mosquito is lowly and the tiger is grand? Are we capable of discerning the worth of the lowland gorilla or the hardhead fish of the Gulf of Mexico in the grand scheme of things? What ever force or entity or process that brought all life together on the planet is beyond our ability to judge and the web is an integrated whole that must be kept intact.
Each part of the whole belongs and the human has no loftier place than the toucan or the bat. The only place in the environment that the human species does have precedence is our responsibility to take care of everything else in the environment. We were put here purposefully and our gift is the gift of compassion and understanding of all other elements of the planet earth. We are not here to dominate or discriminate, but to serve and keep in tact living systems so that life can exist in perpetuity.
Every element is a piece of the continent a part of the main and the loss of one diminishes the whole. We can never be so cavalier to presume that a tree, a blade of eel grass, or a creature as small as an ant is insignificant. For some reason they survived the evolutionary cuts and we are not evolved enough yet as a species to figure out just why everything is here. Until that time, let us proceed with precaution.
--Peter