Earth is a perfect system - or was until we screwed her over. Everything
happens for a reason, and the dance is so intricate that one can never truly
hope to see the whole thing.
From the inwards out... the earth is a giant roiling ball of iron. The thing
is practically indestructible, and that molten iron core turns the thing
into one giant supermagnet. This magnet channels potentially deadly solar
winds (Ionic particles and the like) to the earth's poles, creating the
aurora australis and borealis - also saving every bit of life on earth.
The light from the sun bombards our planet, creating areas of heat and cold,
creating winds. The wind creates waves, and the waves allow the ocean to
absorb oxygen with each crash. This crash allows fish to live. Fish swim,
providing food for other fish and eventually birds, who in turn become food
for terrestrial animals. Then the terrestrial animals die and their nutrients
feed the plants, allowing yet other animals to eat. Some of this debris even
makes its slow and painful way back to the ocean to feed the fish.
And we are merely a part of this system, are we not? We are a unique part,
but the world would not suffer were all of mankind to disappear. But were
an animal such as the humble fox to disappear, suddenly things start to get
dangerous.
So we are merely a single cog in this grand system - yet our bodies are
systems created from the 30,000 genes of the human genome.
We are a system within a system. Every single part of our existence is
perfectly regulated by the tiniest of things possible; the cell. The cell is
in turn regulated by the organelles within, which are regulated by hormones,
which are controlled and created by the metre's length of DNA trapped within
its core. The living animal is the epitome of balance, everything sustaining
something else within the system, the whole thing perfectly balanced. And
when something upsets that balance, things go haywire.
Something, such as one, single tiny protein called a virus.
One would question, though. What purpose do virii serve in the system? They
exist merely to kill.
And that is their purpose. The purpose of the humble virus is to kill us, to
remind us that we are not infallible. And every living organism exists to
ultimately die, by some manner or form.
So... what organism is the greatest of all? Who is the true top of the food
chain? Well... not us. We couldn't even exist if it were not for bacteria.
We have bacteria within us, a colony that forms a symbiotic relationship
with our intestines, giving us immunity to certain problems - and we give
them a home and all the food they could ever desire.
Ultimately, the greatest form of life on earth... is the whole thing. We are
all connected to each other and to every animal, plant and protozoa; we are
part of a perpetual balance, no one piece more important than the other.
We must not rise above ourselves... but in turn, we are not to belittle our
existence upon Gaia. Mankind has the power to change the shape of the planet,
something no other animal has exhibited to any large degree.
Humans are shapers, and we shall forever be shapers. Everything else, perhaps,
exists to make sure we cannot change the shape of the planet too fast.
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As far as this goes, however, I can only shrug my shoulders. Humans have messed up, yes, but the world was bound to go in this direction anyway (or so the scientists have said)--we only sped it up by about a few billion years. sweatdrop
But you can't curse it at all. You can only thank them in the prospects that you count as blessings--without all that this world is, much of what you love today would not be in existence, in your life or the world.
Instead of looking at all of the down-sides to everything, try looking at all the good points. Count your blessings, not your curses.
But I like how you pointed out that we, in fact, are NOT at the top of the food chain--rather, we're at the bottom. I applaud you for stating such, as well.