I had a great day yesterday. I spent the day childminding for John and Liza. Most of the day, I spent lazing in the sun. The sky was interspersed with massive white cumulonimbus clouds floating within a clear blue sky. I so enjoy watching those huge, towering clouds. I must have spent two hours in full sun; I am surprised how little I got sunburnt, just turned brown.

A chicken roving for titbits on the lawn made me think of Afghanistan and the withdrawal of the American soldiers. A shocking episode and disrespect for life followed their departure. As the chicken stabbed at the occasional insect, I wondered what life was worth anyway. I acknowledge that evolution in its wisdom provided for the restraint and control of living matter by benefitting the next level on the food chain. 

Owing to our advanced and acquired skills, we humans have divorced ourselves from natural biological diversity. Upon this planet, we are nothing else but aliens intent upon mindless self-destruction and at the same time having nowhere else to go. 

The United Nations body for assessing climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), reported that the Earth is warmer than in 125,000 years. Human-generated greenhouse gases are without a doubt driving extreme weather conditions, but nations, they claim, can still prevent the worst impacts. 

I wonder if this claim could be valid. We, humans, are entirely dependent upon the diversity of living matter for our food. Everything is co-dependent and may take aeons for the natural world to adapt to the rapid change demanded. A flooded or exhausted soil cannot be expected to produce food in quantities needed to feed the world population today.

Could this rapid change in the environment and unintelligent human behaviour be part of a natural destiny for the planet?