A comment, yesterday, from my friend at Chi Sphere brought to mind an image I have myself been playing with. It used to be--in the bad old days, of course: in medieval times (we're so much more enlightened now!)--that human miscreants were tarred and feathered to humiliate or punish them for their misdeeds. Now, our species is caught in the act of tarring our feathered ones...
... our fellow travelers on life's journey whose worst crime is to able to do naturally what we can do only with the aid of noise-some and polluting mechanical devices: they fly. We're also, if "unintentionally," bringing death to those who live in another alternate element, the water: the fish...
... crustaceans, shellfish, turtles...
In our insatiable need to exploit the Earth's resources, we humans arrogantly assert our primacy over all other species. It is not unreasonable to believe that in the not-too-distant future they will have their revenge--as this brilliant talk by the British cosmologist Sir Martin Rees suggests.
(With apologies to The Getty and the Huffington Post, where I purloined these images.)
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