Can you imagine being attacked by a nest of brown recluse spiders, knowing that one bite can be fatal?
This horrendous news report reminds me of the classic movie by Hitchcock, The Birds.
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2022637849/?ref_=tt_vi_i_1
As we read of sharks attacking humans off Florida, javelinas attacking humans in Arizona, and Brown Recluse spiders attacking in Georgia. Is this Nature avenging herself against humanity? For what crimes have we humans committed that could possibly justify this coordinated assault of Nature on innocent victims?
Surely we can’t be blamed for all the oceans of nano-plastic choking sharks, or the disorienting vibration of wind turbines in the sea crazing whales that attack boats, or the lack of forestry that grizzly bears once enjoyed foraging but now must invade human pantries. Who’s to say we humans were to blame for that now contaminated Mediterranean shoreline with miles of dead zone from fertilizer runoff, such that fish cannot survive.
Lest I forget, many thousands of square miles of plastic grass have replaced those living lawns that our former friends The Birds loved to hunt and scratch for worms? I suppose it’s within their rights to attack us for such inconsideration, depriving them of food just so we can avoid trimming and cutting our lawns.
At any rate, after all the wild animals are dead and gone, I hope we humans can survive the environmental damages mysteriously appearing everywhere. Of course, that would include the biggest hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and flooding reported in history, as entire islands disappear under the sea, regional wars and famines forcing immigration tidal waves of hungry, aggressive, angry vagrants across our borders, vandalizing our homes for expensive food and valuables.
Scientists blame it on CO2 emitted by our massive industrial revolution since the 16th century, and others claim its due to natural climate changes from sun cycles. and shifting polar caps.
It doesn’t matter much the real reason, simply because we can’t change the sun’s behavior, and our species’ unquenchable lust for convenience and pleasure.
Back to horse and buggy, back to homesteading? Unthinkable! Who’d welcome the inconvenience and tedious labor twelve hours per day?
It may someday be forced upon us for survival as a species. Although we humans have long enjoyed no natural predators, alas, it is now far more obvious than ever that we’ve always been our own worst enemy.
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