Great video, and “We can’t put it together. It is together” says it all.
“It” has been “putting itself together” for 4.5 billion years. Bears shit in the woods, whales shit in the ocean, and humans effectively do it in someone else’s drinking water (particularly in the developed world). Plants lock in the sun’s energy, animals eat plants, everything is recycled—-it will go on until the sun stops powering it or all life is killed off.
It has been working reasonably well except for a few mass extinctions and recurring ice ages that have tended to rearrange things considerably, but that great drama called Gaia keeps coming back for extended replays (albeit with an ever-changing cast). One of the newest cast members (homo stupidus hubrisia) has interrupted the slow cycle by oh-so-cleverly digging up the sequestered carbon and burning it almost overnight. Hence climate change, climate change denial, and the need for Crock.
To paraphrase Roy Scheider in Jaws, “We’re going to need a lot more whales”.
Excellent video on the wonders of ocean ecology, “It is together, but we are trying to pull it all apart”
“a sobering reminder of how quickly conditions on Earth can change. Our planet has been just right for us for thousands of years, but there is no reason to believe it will stay that way.”
Great video, and “We can’t put it together. It is together” says it all.
“It” has been “putting itself together” for 4.5 billion years. Bears shit in the woods, whales shit in the ocean, and humans effectively do it in someone else’s drinking water (particularly in the developed world). Plants lock in the sun’s energy, animals eat plants, everything is recycled—-it will go on until the sun stops powering it or all life is killed off.
It has been working reasonably well except for a few mass extinctions and recurring ice ages that have tended to rearrange things considerably, but that great drama called Gaia keeps coming back for extended replays (albeit with an ever-changing cast). One of the newest cast members (homo stupidus hubrisia) has interrupted the slow cycle by oh-so-cleverly digging up the sequestered carbon and burning it almost overnight. Hence climate change, climate change denial, and the need for Crock.
To paraphrase Roy Scheider in Jaws, “We’re going to need a lot more whales”.
Excellent video on the wonders of ocean ecology, “It is together, but we are trying to pull it all apart”
“a sobering reminder of how quickly conditions on Earth can change. Our planet has been just right for us for thousands of years, but there is no reason to believe it will stay that way.”
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150112-did-snowball-earth-make-animals