We have been wrong the earth we have taken for granted and treated so casually-the sunflower-shaded forest of man’s infancy-is an incredibly precious planetary jewel. For centuries we have dreamed of intelligent beings throughout this solar system. Professor Eiseley replies that science has been an enabler of what ails rather than an ultimate savior. The standard response to these most unwelcome, dour thoughts is that science will save the day it always has. And you think you got mad when your older sibling stole your candy bar when the parents were absent. How long before our finite natural resources have been substantially depleted? Will that be 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000+ years? Regardless, the time will come when the competition for those coveted inputs will invite some mighty nasty behaviors between the haves and the have-nots. The essential problem is us, for we are continuing simultaneous and accelerating destructions of land, air and sea, otherwise blandly accepted to most as modern progress. Basically, we’re trashing the place, friends, and no one is set to do much about it, really. Professor Eiseley’s work is a collection of poetic essays noting the dangerous consequences of our wayward, consumption-based progress.
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