The beginning of the end.

[Grim]

If you think about it, it's possible that human beings are a plague that will scrub the earth clean. We are the only ones who destroy things so well that it seems like that is our intended function. Maybe every few eons, there is some animal that comes along and kills off the rest of the world. Sort of like clearing the decks and allowing the planet and it's evolution to move on to the next phase. In other words, just like a reset button.

That's certainly an interesting point. That also challenges and invalidates what we've been taught all our lives that humans are the pinnacle of evolution and life, which I'm not entirely sure of now myself.

I have to be honest though, I did think like Shin at one point these past two weeks. Floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons. It's really all unsettling the way they all came together so quickly. Even if you factor in the Internet, this string of natural disasters is much too close to each other for comfort. Plus, did you know there's another one coming to us? (In a great stroke of irony, the international name of this is Lupit ).

But yeah, mankind's definitely brought some changes to the world. Let's hope we learn in time.