Gaia

By studying the history of our homeworld, we’ve come to realize that it represents unity between all living organisms and their inorganic surrounding along to its inner composition down to the depths of the planet’s core. This altogether system has represented a single evolutionary undividable, interdependent and self-regulating complex organism.

 

Throughout Earth’s history many cataclysmic events had scarred our planet, and these had impacted the fragile balance of the environment, pushing it to extremes and harming life on a planetary scale. During these events it’s estimated that around 97% of all life forms that had ever existed on Earth had been irreversibly destroyed, so what we see today is just a glimpse of all species that once inhabited our homeworld. After these terrifying events, the Earth had shown a tendency toward seeking and creating balance in its total environment. The planet sought physical and chemical environment optimal for creation and development of life, by regulating the conditions in an individual or global homeostasis. This is widely known as Gaia theory.

 

It’s safe to say that life has been an intricate part of Earth and confined within its safekeeping.

 

It’s also safe to say that after the Gods and the Creation, there hasn’t been anything more narcissistic than man. Our mindset full with self-affection has taught us that we’re the most spectacular of all life forms, since we haven’t met anyone like us. Even though, we admit that some species here on Earth are more intelligent than us, the whale family, dolphin family, even octopus family. We can’t explain to this day how the octopus family got here on the planet, they’re outside of our understanding of evolution.

 

Our definition of intellect is closely connected to technological capability. This has given us the right to rule by our choices and desires, and we desire to consume. Our connection with nature is based on what we can take for ourselves. We consume out of our need for greed, we console each other that we're hungry. Fires in our passion blaze ever so harder, we need to satisfy our lusts for resources and energy. In our weakness we show inability to set a path of unity and coexistence with nature, which doesn't include our greed, hunger and thirst for conquest. Humanity comes in  waves, our intensity increases further as we increase in numbers, and our growth in numbers hasn't been accompanied by growth in intelligence. 

 

We're not quite sure that this global warming is all our doing, since the planet is exiting a glacial cycle, and warming the climate with a positive cybernetic feedback, but we're certain that with our actions we're accelerating it, and it's happening with a pace beyond the evolutionary rhythms of most of the biota.

 

The planet will eventually prevail, we’ve found evidence of this in its crust many times. And in the aftermath new life will emerge, but in the meantime all life will inevitably suffer along with us.

 

So let's stop for a minute and take a breath of this nice thick polluted air. Let's get things straight... do we expand in nature for our thirst of conquest, or do we expand to satisfy our need of curiosity?

 

We ought to realize that we need other creatures, not mirrors, because after some time, the image speaks while the man stands still in silence.