Advance Without Advancing

A news reporter was reporting about how a projected species of owls were being killed off by another species of owls.  The reporter stated that the parks and wildlife department was being forced to consider killing off one species to save another.  She went on to report that this was causing questions to be raised about whether or not nature should be allowed to run its course.  At that moment there was the thought that if nature was allowed to run its course with humans there would be a lot of people that would not be here.

You have probably heard the expression that a chain is only as good as its weakest link.  There are an ever increasing number of "weak links" in humanity that hold the species as a whole to a lower level.  As this sector of humanity increases, governments must come up with more and more funds for programs that "tow along" the non-productive elements of humanity.  The energies of the productive elements of humanity, are consumed by dragging along the unproductive elements, leaving few resources available for advancing humanity.

Everything in nature has an opposite.  Nature is in a perpetual cycle of always trying to maintain a balance between all elements.  The dark and the light, the good and the bad, the healthy and the sick.  There cannot be one without the other and each is always working to keep the other under control.  As the human population continues to grow and be an ever increasing force on the planet, nature must work even harder to maintain the balance that is being drastically effected by humanities blind advances.  New diseases, stronger storms, water shortages, are all part of a natural system of increasing intensity to balance out the equation.

Human beings are capable of so much and yet they do so little in taking care of their species and their surroundings.  Where would humanity be if entitlements were abolished and nature were allowed to balance things out naturally?