Everything will be okay

Life is not a thirty minute soap opera, or even a three hour film. We don't get a fresh start after the commercials. There are no Oscars for survival, or Golden Globes for best story. When the power goes off we are in trouble.

We have created a disposable world. Except not everything is replaceable or renewable. Beginning at the top: our atmosphere is already in dire straights. Directly related to that are the animals who are dying out because they have no place to live except zoos. Then there is the land that is being reclaimed by water and the land that is turning into deserts and mudflats because of improper usage.

The airplanes and bridges and buildings that were built, not  out of stone, but rusting bolts and girders and fraying cables are falling down.

We can deny it for as long as we want to, but it won't stop the destruction.

Most of us won't even really suffer too much from the destruction we wreak. Like army ants we do our work and die, leaving the rest to our grandchildren and great grandchildren and any others unfortunate enough to follow in our footsteps.

Because you don't have to believe in science for it to be real. It's not a matter of faith. It's oxidation and bio-hazards and atmospheric destruction.

 Everything will be okay in the end. The earth is fully capable of going on without us.