Written by
John Cox, M.A, C/M
“Diversity of Wildlife is the key factor to not only a healthy ecology, but life within this Universe. Humans attempt to favor entertainment, and exploitative circumstance, and avoid what I just wrote in the opening of this conversation.
Evolution of life also, often devastating to some, is a fact of living. Then the end-of-life, that is, the life-cycle within this Universe we all live. Whether fallen and die from old age, or, devastated within the Predator-Prey Relationships we see in Nature, and understand, that life exists naturally on this planet we live. Time is our boundaries, toward life — a Universal Law we cannot change. . . We are all part of, and just as receptive to it all, as a small field-mouse in a field, a prey to age, or predators.
Interesting, and the fact is, without human involvement, this life-cycle I discuss here, creates or prolongs a healthy life cycle within the Ecology it exists within — i.e. evidence, for millions of years before we come along. With Human-involvement, not so much, to Zero, actually. So it’s not time, as previously mentioned, being a boundary; but rather, and this is the negative side, whether or not the humans turn-against one another, or not — when Predator-Prey Relationships no longer exist on this planet. Perhaps this planet’s history shows us this, as well . . .
The devastation of one-predator overwhelming other life within a healthy habitat, that was not within their Predator-Prey Relationship — i.e. I give you the cattle and the wolves, bears, household-pets, coyotes, et al., as a definitive and well proven fact this happens — Science and common-sense observations shows us this as fact, as well. Yet we disregard the “Causation” and go after, to kill or eliminate, the symptoms – whether it be Wildlife-Evolution, or Terrestrial-Evolution; or, our own pervasive obnoxious perceptions, derived from ignorance, bigotry, or bias. History shows us also, when these attributes become popular, things drastically change within the evolutionary process.
I find it interesting, all of the preconceptions we place on something like the Natural Life Cycles of this planet . . . The fact is simple, not an excuse to kill more life, or exclude some life, i.e. bias, bigotry, and ignorance, in favor of other life forms — a more entertaining life. . . How sad people are entertained by killing life itself, and for the most ironic illusions, yet state they done the killing to save all of us, or the ranchers, or the community, or . . . whatever bullshit fits their need, i.e. excuse, at the time!
I call that bullshit! Especially, when we are attempting to manage the birthrates within a Wilderness area, or, on the Range, when science tells us, very well and abundantly, Wildlife and our Terrestrial Environments are self-governing, inclusive of population, as well. But human-ego combined with ignorance and bias, and money/greed, then soon we find Nature subordinate to such mind-sets, and destroyed due to them.
Some of the Evolutionary Process may appear to us as unattractive, even disgusting, when we do not understand the Predator-Prey Relationships — and the Natural Balance of Life on this planet. Humans have disconnected this Universal Necessity of Connection we all have between Nature and a Natural Universal Evolutionary Process, in our attempts to control it all.
We need to understand it is not our supposed predatory instincts that control this planet; but rather, it is Nature, and we are a part of it; Whereas, with any other living beings on this planet, and Universal Law, if one living-being or species ultimately controls all life on this planet — Nature will respond negatively.
Ultimately, when no Predator-Prey Relationships exist, Predators turn against one another. We see this often when hunting and trapping over-done in many Wildlife and Wilderness Areas. Frankly, we are seeing it today, already starting. And those with any type of intelligence, can see, many things in our environment and human population as well, becoming worse, the further we disconnect from Nature itself. . . and refusing to understand our connection with it all.” — John Cox, M.A. C/M
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