Hubris, Baby...Hubris

I have often wondered how the earth would sustain the incredible population growth it has recently been experiencing. How could we feed ourselves and sustain life? Especially since the governments were reluctant to lead in these areas? Nature has answered. If there is too much, it gets whacked back down. Economic downturns, climate change, melting glaciers...too far one way and the pendulum swings back. It always has. We think - in our arrogance - we can beat the "house". When we think our stories and narratives completely describe the world, and we can do anything we wish, we are treated to a reality check. And after the obvious plagues are inflicted upon us, nature turns to the unusual, surprising us with a evil aspect of ourselves we thought we had lost: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7902599.stm US soldier guilty of Iraq murder ...The 28-year-old army medic, from Lockport, Illinois, faces a maximum life term in jail and a dishonourable discharge from the army. A medic. The only step remaining is for it to be a chaplain next time. The murder occured in 2007, 4 years after our victory. This is Iraq, not Afghanistan. These places will be our cemeteries, but we cannot change our lemming-migration to destruction. We cannot change because (1) we do not wish to, and (2) things have to be brought back into balance by pruning us back. The Balance of Life cannot be avoided. Hubris, baby...hubris.