Oh yeah!
--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote:
>
> Edgar,
>
> And Humans are just the tip of the iceberg, too.
>
> I don't know why plants and animals insist on interfering with the way Nature
> works.
>
> For example, on the early earth there was a nice atmosphere without oxygen.
> But blasted Cyanobacteria evolved which like to sip the methane and other
> gases there were back then, and started polluting the atmosphere with
> ...Oxygen!
>
> Then -- wouldn't you know -- other organisms formed which turned CO2 into
> even MORE Oxygen, with a help from light from the Sun. The nerve! They got
> away with it, though, because there were no Police. The rug was pulled out
> from under Nature yet again!
>
> Later, some animals evolved, which USE the oxygen.
>
> Much later, some of these animals of the Mammal variety called "Beavers"
> began to INSIST that they interfere with the stately FLOW of river
> tributaries and streams, by ...damming them up! Such nerve. You may be sure
> that this caused inundations upstream, and occasional floods downstream when
> the dams burst. Havoc. Bye, bye, Nature!
>
> The nerve of these organisms: Micro-organisms, Plants, and Animals. Always
> interfering with the way Nature works!
>
> At least on the Moon there is no such interference, there's just a continual,
> thin, rain of meteorites pummeling the surface, and no atmosphere to make
> things rust.
>
> Oops!, some exotic Mammals left some footprints on the Moon, and some
> machinery, during the last fifty years. WHY must there always be such
> interference? The Moon had been Nature's nice, quiet, haven for rock and
> dust for so long. Why must things always go downhill?
>
> --Joe
>
> > On 10/7/2012 9:26 PM, Edgar Owen wrote:
>
> > > Why do humans always insist on interfering with the way nature works?
>
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