Everybody thinks they know. At least almost everybody and it's always been like this. We use the knowledge we have to judge and name and depending on the times and the superstitions we call it witch craft, magic, miracle, science, conjecture. Sometimes it is simply denial.
One century's hottest topic is old hat for the next. Science, superstition and fairy tales braid themselves together to create the news.
There are always people too eager to accept possibilities and suppositions and there are always those afraid to test their faith, but in the long run we inch forward a little bit at a time. Often taking two steps forward and three back.
In the end it only matters to us. The earth couldn't care less. She is impervious to all the creatures that inhabit her body. They come and go. She only changes her attire.
We are not so lucky. Our lives depend on the trees and the waters, the animals and the plants, even on the rocks and the dirt, the sand and the wind. Their lives and our lives are inextricably intermingled. We are part of one huge universal experiment that seems to be failing because of us, but the earth will continue.
She grew out of a cataclysm and she can do it again.
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