Well, Shimrod, we could always ask God instead to help us out. Unfortunately, while we praise him to the rafters for this amazingly wonderful world, with its beautiful land and seascapes and its fantastic diversity and complexity of lifeforms, all of which he's supposed to have created, we say nothing about the fact that he appears to be letting us wreck it all on his watch, even though, we're told, he's all-powerful, etc. Odd chap, this God, but let's not think too much about it. Let's just settle for the fact that he works in mysterious ways. Yeah, that's all the explanation we need!