by Lana Evans

Created on: April 19, 2008

There are droughts, but global warming also brings floods. I'm not sure whether we can actually drink the melted icecaps, but I'll bet someone has the brains to figure our how to make it drinkable. In the meantime, the very floods that appear to threaten our coastlines may just be our planets way of sharing its wealth. Somewhere between our understanding of the earth's natural processes and all of the human rights groups, there is the likelihood that everything will be okay.

The earth is known to go through cycles that we don't fully understand. Maybe these floods and droughts are part of that cycle. Maybe we have prematurely triggered these cycles, but all of these changes don't have to be quite as extreme as we have made them out to be. Perhaps our planet is so sophisticated the it can measure the activity on the surface; much like our human bodies can figure out how we're treating them. In the case of my body, it gives itself a fever when it's ill. The fever is often initiated for the purpose of raising the body's temperature so it can destroy bacteria. Perhaps when the earth detects excessive weight on it's back, among other things, such as environmental impurities, a natural geological response is triggered. Not that the earth thinks we're a bacteria, or that global warming is just some fever, but I think the earth is capable of balancing it's needs with ours.

The Earth is an amazing machine, despite the impact we thoughtless humans have made. This planet has been pretty good at balancing itself with the challenges we give it. We are the ones who seldom balance our presence with the planet's challenges. We put ourselves in harm's way, by living in regions that are off limits; places know for dangerous earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts and such. There are certain small points in a region that are far worse than others. Small as they are, some of them sure to tend to attract a crowd.

As a result of our foolish, or sometimes just desperate, taking of residence in dangerous areas, we end up with destruction of property, personal injury, and even death. But the earth is, of course, not trying to kill us. Often, we just don't fully adapt to the earth's cycles in quite enough time to prevent these disasters. They are usually only disasters if someone is there to get hit by them. In this respect, we are like the small wild animals that wonder from the fields into the roads and get hit by cars. But these creatures don't know better, and I have to wonder whether we

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