“Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.”—Richard Bach, American novelist.
This quote reminds me of a great movie; The Matrix.
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.” – Agent Smith
How true it is that human beings abuse and misuse the natural resources we have, we drive animals to distinction, and we cause global effects that change the planet in unforeseen ways through our ever relentless desire to consume.
Interestingly before I even read this quote, last night, I was sitting and thinking about all the ways that we, as humans are probably going to try and harness the energies the natural materials of the other planets in our solar systems.
We’re already talking about ways to move out to mars – somehow, based on our current track-record, I don’t think we’ll bring much positive benefits to Mars, despite its lack of biological support – somehow, we’ll probably ruin it in the process of inhabiting it.
To paraphrase the book of Romans 8: Even nature, subjected to futility as the result of mans transgression, cries out as if in birth pains, waiting for the day of its redemption.