We as humans are really a peculiar bunch.
So strange are we that a great deal of us do not make much sense when we speak.
Over the past few years, there have been a lot of talk about conserving nature and protecting what we call the "natural" paradises in this world we live in. Well, but seriously, how do we define "nature" itself? Well, this may not be a problem for many. "Sure! Nature's all that green stuff and other things that should happen and go on without human intervention!" Well, at the very least that is the impression I get from them all... But seriously, are they claiming to not be part of nature? The term all encompassing for almost every other living being on this planet? If so, then what are we? Are we above nature? So much so that it is our duty to maintain it? And to maintain by whose call? Last I checked there is really no written law as to how and when should humanity intefere with, well, everything else.
Sure we wrote our own rules of engagement when dealing with "nature", but seriously, I find a great deal of those rules rather... Well, let's just say they are there not so much for the good of others but our own pride and benefits.
There has been several great outcries regarding the encroachment of alien species in some habitats. Some of us had and still are trying to "combat" such alien invasion. But seruously... Are we not the greatest invasive species on this planet? Such irony.
and wait a minute, is not the ability to adapt and/or migrate one of the fundamentals for survival in the "wild"? Why then are we stopping these species from doing their thing? Isn't change the most natural process that even we the species that contradicts itself adhere and even embrace?
We claim that we are the most superior on this planet, we claim that we are the most rational, but are we really as sensible as we claim? We refute our own creations, our expanding cities as "unnatural" as not part of nature. Yet, the nests and the hives of birds and bees do not face such scrutiny. Aren't they all created from stuff found lying around the place? Did not the birds disturb the ground and the trees for their own nests? Why then are our cities considered an unnatural occurence? Last I checked they are all made of stuff lying around. And surely, pray enlighten me on how to create something, out of nothing...
Seriously, we just do not make sense...