The Circle of Life -- The Dollar Tree

Another in a not-so-regular series of posts highlighting nature's nature & 'ain't that odd'

A couple hundred million years ago there was the Pangaea. And a couple billion years before that a hostile, hot, fiery and toxic atmosphere. Few organisms lived on earth.

As the Pangaea spread and split, the earth started to become more environmentally friendly to organisms. These organisms prospered and evolved into new plants, insects, mammals and fish.....and humans. Some of the plants produced tiny seeds.

The seeds were spread by animals, water, glaciers and wind to all parts of the world. Some of these seeds germinated into ..... trees.

The trees prospered, grew big, tall and old. They produced millions more seeds for the animals and wind to spread. More trees grew old. All was balanced by nature.

Then, the earth provided the most favorable and friendly atmostphere and weather ever for The Man! The Man used trinkets, gems, gold, furs and stones to barter and trade for other things he needed for survival.

These trinkets and wares were heavy and cumbersome. So The Man cut down trees to make paper and then turn paper into the dollar! The tree gave its life so The Man had a dollar bill to carry around and buy the natural resources like land, trees, food, clothing, shelter and fire. All the things that only nature could provide. Without nature, The Man would have none of these.

Now The Man uses his tree-to-dollar money invention to buy more trees to make more dollars.

The Man is killing a lot of trees and digging up a vast amount of resources and minerals making more dollars to buy land and trees for conservation. He is considered very wealthy and rich when he has large quantities of dollars in his pocket.

Wouldn't The Man be just as wealthy, or even more so if he just sustainably co-existed with nature and what nature has to offer instead of killing many of nature's offerings in an unsustainable manner?

So, in summary, kill a tree, make a dollar so The Man can kill more trees and make more dollars and use them to go "save a tree". The Circle of Life for the Dollar Tree!

Go figure

Good Night From Maine, USA

Cloning -- The God Power of Man

Another in a not-so-regular series of posts highlighting nature's nature & 'ain't that odd'
Wow! Can you image if man had the power to clone animals 100,000 years ago. Many animals may have been saved from extinction. Maybe even man would not have evolved as we have either.

Now a national nature, wildlife and conservation organization is cloning the endangered black-footed cat. They are using domestic cats as surrogate mothers inserted with embryos for the black-footed cat.

How do you feel about the human race doing these types of things? After all, earth is 4.5 billion years old; it has killed and created many forms of life over its course. Life will continue to become extinct, climates will always change and new forms of life will continue. Only if man would stop messing with mother nature.

Man is the only endanged species. If the climate changes earth will continue to live life. We might not make it. Especially if we think we have a "right" to change and "help" mother nature.

Good Night from Maine, USA

Our Plastic Ocean Dump

Another in a not-so-regular series of posts highlighting nature's nature & 'ain't that odd'

Check out the web, search on plastic in our oceans and you will find some frightening stories about how much plastic is in the oceans. You will quickly see how sea birds, animals and mammals are negatively affected. And you see conflicting opinions of how, whether and when it breaks down.

With all our great technology, could we incentivize the manufactures of and users of plastic to clean and sweep our oceans? This would be a good candidate for a high school or college competition to make a workable and scalable contraption that can vacuum our oceans free of plastic.

Plastics -- is the thing to watch!

Good Night From Maine, USA

Emotional Overrides of Science

Another in a not-so-regular series of posts highlighting nature's nature & 'ain't that odd'
For Maine, 2009 was the summer that wasn't. It was also the wettest "summer" on record. And now, it is almost September and the nights and mornings are already cooling - we're beginning the fall Indian summer weather now.

On to nature and the environment. Should people use the emotionally charged mantra of "we are losing 20 species a day" and "the polar bear is dying" and the earth is warming to justify their view, mission and fund raising? Shouldn't they also include the rates of warming, cooling, and animal lost prior to the modern presence of man? Should they also include more facts of extinction and how mankind is now flourishing in the most conducive environment for mankind? And, without the natural process of losing species our human evolution and the evolution of new species would not exist. I would like to see more facts, science and less emotion from people, especially the press who never truly live and experience nature except through adventure tours.

I personally am worn out on how much land a trust must save, has saved for our benefit and how this land is forever protected for the benefit of some species. The goal is admirable in many minds; it is sold as motherhood and apple pie. But is it science and does it reflect the fact the earth, our planet will always survive with or without man? Man is at risk, not the planet. It has lived and will live much longer than a single species such as man.

Now ants and bats, that is another story of how they impact and contribute to the current condition of earth.

Good night from Maine, USA.

Stuff It - To The Marketers!

Another in a not-so-regular series of posts highlighting nature's nature & 'ain't that odd'

So, here it is again. My stuff on stuff!

We worry about the government becoming controlling of all things in our lives. Well you are already being very controlled by the great marketers! They have studied and effectively harvested the human triggers of feeling good about getting a deal a bargain on unneseccary stuff. They convince you you have to have it -- stuff. You have done so much stuffing that Americans are driving the storage business to record highs to store all that stuff you bought! It is so much madness to me that you have to go buy all that stuff to make yourself feel good, be more important and impress you friends and the "Jones". AH, but the marketers know how to entice you, make things appear very urgent (act now -- but it) and how it is a great deal when it is on sale and right next to other stuff that is the same but higher priced.

Marketers have out performed cults in controlling and manipulating your the hunt/gatherer instincts. They know how to leverage your homo sapien ingrained behaviors.

So, get a back bone and get real. As you worrying about global warming and drive your SUV to wholefoods, get real and fight the mind control that marketers have developed just for you. Think before you buy. Think about the entire life cycle of that stuff and the impact it will have on your life cycle before you but.

Whether -- A Summer? Or Warming?

Another in a not-so-regular series of posts highlighting nature's nature & 'ain't that odd'

Was there a summer in the Northeast this year? 2009 - the summer that wasn't.

There is so much psycho emotional and pushing-shoving discussions about global warming. In a scientific factual view global weather - hot, cold, stormy and with/without oxygen is all very natural. And, we humans came about as a result of many more and much more severe warming, freezing and thawing. Like I said before, the planet has had weather very conducive to humans and it has been a very short period.

Factually speaking, I believe from a species and scientific basis clean potable fresh water for human consumption is a far more threatening and serious issue to our survival -- which all this is really about. The emotional levels global warming has reached is simply an indication to me how people are mainly concerned about there our personal survival. It is certainly not about environmental facts nor the absolute health of the planet. The planet is very healthy, will continue to evolve with all its "drama" (from only a human perspective!) and thrive. It just does not mean it will continue to be conducive to human survival. That is the core of the issue.

In my opinion, of course.

Good Night from Maine, USA

Rosicrucian -- An Old Adventure

Another in a not-so-regular series of posts highlighting nature's nature & 'ain't that odd'

Rosicrucian according to wikipedia is "built on esoteric truths of the ancient past", which, "concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm. "

I never heard of this term or group until the GuideStones of Georgia were described in Wired Magazine

Are they truly an ally of nature, humans and the resurrection of the world?

Good Night From Maine, USA