It occurs to me that perhaps the natural order of things of behaving irrationally will be our undoing as a species. Mother Nature (Or G-d or Goddess or the Council of G-ds) put us here with a lot of potential. Sadly, we have squandered that potential while overhwelming the Earth with our children and outstripping her ability to sustain us.

It makes sense to me to carefully evaluate our place in the world of plants and animals and to act as if we are *part of* a larger family, all members of which are entitled to live. Mother Nature, after allowing us to see what we have wrought and seeing that our little species is "not playing nicely with others" is allowing us to bring about our own demise by our own hand so that some of her other children can survive. But to many, this attitude is just leftist drivel.