Maybe She's Tired of Us

I wrote about the apparent rash of mega-disasters in the news last summer.

I noted in that entry that I'm no conspiracy freak.  I'm just concerned at what appears to me to be an increase in extreme-weather or mega-disasters.  Maybe I'm reading the news more.  Maybe our digital age simply makes us more aware of these types of disasters which really have been going on all the time.  Maybe it's because I have two babies of my own, and I worry about what world will be left to them.

But maybe there really is something going on.  Let me state that I think 2012 is rubish and that the supposed 'super-moon' is much ado about nothing. But there is part of me (the part that has seen too damn many disaster films) worries.

Maybe mother earth is plain tired of us.  There's a famous quote that goes like this - "If all the insects vanished from earth, all life would cease to be in 50 years.  If humans vanished from earth, all life would be flourishing in 50 years." 

That's sad.  And probably quite true.

Now I know some believe that God would never let that happen.  Here's proof of that.  But I don't have faith in that.  Maybe it's because I'm often a deist.  I don't know.  But a quick glance at recent headlines simply scares the hell out of me.

Whether it's the mass bird and fish deaths (I know they happen all the time and usually go unreported . . . or at least that's what the rational side of my mind reminds me).

Whether it's our ridiculous argument over global warming (or as big business conservatives call it "climate change") and whether or not it's responsible to extreme weather, such as the historic heat wave in Russia last year.

Or that we are producing and growing and consuming at such a rate that we are radically changing how the earth will look in half a century (I know the explorers and settlers of the "New World" radically changed how the earth once looked too (can you just imagine how thick what is now America must have been with trees and wildlife?) but that took centuries to alter, not decades).

Or the recent rash of earth quakes, such as the mega quake that shook Japan, and tsunamis, such as the one heading toward our west coast as I write this.

Okay.  Enough worrying.  Time to listen to that rational side of my brain and hope it isn't just the voice of denial.