Balance Of Nature, the

There’s been precious little time since
the last ice-age ended but the melt is
already underway. It may be some time
yet before the impact comes screaming
into our daily lives, before the advent of

mass hysteria, but that won’t change the
public way we live what is left of our certain
desolation. We are masters of our fate –
these events were man-made and no debate
will ease or escape that fact. While it is too

late to balance the ledger and we cannot stop
the process, we can learn a seminal lesson. It
only took us eight millennia to challenge the
balance of nature. Next time let’s see if we can
achieve it more economically – say in just one...
© 1 June 2007, I.D. Carswell