We Are Unconscious Of Most Of Our

To Romp Along The Connected Rooftops And Fire Escapes Of Chicagos Second City Of Garages Was My Young Lifes Passion.

Despite Our Very Recent Appearance On The Planet, Humanity Combines Arrogance With Increasing Material Demands, Even As We Become More Numerous. Our Toughness Is A Delusion. Have We The Intelligence And Discipline To Vigilantly Guard Against Our Tendency To Grow Without Limit?

The Idea That We Are "stewards Of The Earth" Is Another Symptom Of Human Arrogance. Imagine Yourself With The Task Of Overseeing Your Body's Physical Processes. Do You Understand The Way It Works Well Enough To Keep All Its Systems In Operation? Can You Make Your Kidneys Function? Can You Control The Removal Of Waste? Are You Conscious Of The Blood Flow Through Your Arteries, Or The Fact That You Are Losing A Hundred Thousand Skin Cells A Minute?

Body Concentrates Order. It Continuously Self-repairs. Every Five Days You Get A New Stomach Lining. You Get A New Liver Every Two Months. Your Skin Replaces Itself Every Six Weeks. Every Year, 98 Percent Of The Atoms Of Your Body Are Replaced. This Non-stop Chemical Replacement, Metabolism, Is A Sure Sign Of Life.

Evolution Is No Linear Family Tree, But Change In The Single Multidimensional Being That Has Grown To Cover The Entire Surface Of Earth.