Renewable Revolution

Comment on an article on non-human  predators and the public attitude towards them:

"Predators have undergone a remarkable transformation in the public consciousness in the last century. While certainly not universally admired they certainly get more favorable press than in years past."

Agelbert reply:
Especially the human ones... See News Media, CEOs and Wall Street...

The non-human predators get a bum rap while the human ones that stupidly do not limit their predation to what they need to live and eat, thereby endangering ALL of the biosphere, get the ALPHA MALE moniker in a truly Orwellian distortion of reality in nature.

I blame the deliberate ignoring of the massive levels of cooperation, nurturing and symbiotic interdependent caring observed in nature and the hyping of the relatively TINY, though important, role that predation plays in the perpetuation of species.

The biomass of the trophic levels that eat SUNLIGHT far exceeds that of the higher order trophic levels. In fact, without the phototrophic life forms, no high order intelligence or predator can exist in our biosphere. We ALL indirectly are eating SUNLIGHT! That does not make us parasitic of, commensal or symbiotic with the sun. The sun is NOT our "prey"; it is what gives us LIFE with no sweat off its back, period. But that is glossed over in scientific studies.

The mistaken view, taught to all of us as 'evolutionary' wisdom'  , that in nature EVERY life form is in a 24/7 competitive life or death struggle in a predation pecking order totem pole where only the top position (apex predator) is the "crown" of evolution  (when the reality is a small minority of the total biosphere biomass!)  is duplicitous and ignorant.   

I blame, not just the Theory of Evolution, but the Racist/Wall Street greedball self serving DISTORTED interpretation of biosphere cause and effect FROM THE START!   

 Even Darwin DID NOT advocate that "ONLY THE STRONGEST SURVIVE".


Yes, apex predators are admirable. A Gray Wolf's teeth and bite strength are superior to any dog's (Due to degraded wolf DNA, a dog's teeth cannot break through a deer's throat). But he needs that to survive. He does not kill unless he is hungry. And even this 'evolutionary advantage' would doom him to extinction without his cooperative pack hunting activity and care of its young.

But that's too "touchy feely" for the "apex predator" worshippers. Our society has become a culture that HONORS and CELEBRATES the ability to KILL as proof of viability in nature when that is EXACTLY backwards.

But Wall Street likes it. The DISTORTION of Natural Selection Principles through propaganda justifying rampant, unchecked predation as the sine qua non of an "Apex Predator" (not!) is DRILLED into every child's mind by the SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.   

And that's why no kid in high school gives a second though to cutting a frog open and killing him in the name of "science".

Nature is, and always was, about LIFE, not DEATH.


"A society that loses the capacity for the sacred, that lacks the power of human imagination, that cannot practice empathy, ultimately ensures its own destruction"
Chris Hedges

If you think the scientific community does not contribute to this mindset with all the KILLING they do for "science" and "the good of society", I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

We need a paradigm shift in science. Science should not be for sale to justify human cruelty against other humans and other earthlings, PERIOD.