People are apt to appropriate the others' accomplishments. Well, it might indicate that they, at least, are longing for great deeds, and hence, in certain respects, can be considered the carriers of reason rather than dummy logs in a pile. On the other hand the inability of discerning the fruits of work from the natural outcome is a sign of animal dullness, the underdevelopment of consciousness. First primitive humans could naively believe that a magic rite was to evoke the rain, extinguish the fire, or kill a virus. On the way of maturation, the humanity has become much better informed; still, some modern people yet never miss the opportunity to complement the technologies with a prayer, a horseshoe on the wall, the mystics of water and wind, or an "energetic" pyramid. The usual excuse: why not? a little séance of witchery will hardly do any harm... As it comes out, it eventually will. Because every deviation from reason means a step towards barbarity. Making compromises with one's stupidity and renunciation of responsibility leads indeed to a new bondage, the tyranny of the masters and priests. Simple logic: you believe in miracles? well, just wait for miracles, and meanwhile we'll rob you of the rest, since you don't need it anyway... Note that the leading advocates of the priority of faith are far from any indigence; they prefer to have rather than believe, and the advanced technologies are all at their disposal.

Primitive animism is ubiquitous. It won't spare even the fundamental science. Thus, the commonly accepted interpretation of quantum mechanics admits the ability of the observer interfere with the physical processes, which have to follow the whims of human will rather than natural laws. The diffident remarks that even an elementary particle may be considered as an observer get lost somewhere in the small-print end notes, never being satisfactory enough and looking like a mere cop-out. Since many people take such balderdash for serious and start procreating quantum demons engaged in a vivid information exchange among themselves and with the macroscopic observer. In the end, everything gets utterly tangled, so that any ravings of the ruling class could be easily imposed on the slaves as a verdict of nature.

Yes, humans have learned to do many things. But not of any kind. The more they act high and mighty, the more spurious are the prospects of their real influence upon the surroundings. Some of our agrotechnical and industrial achievements can shift the natural balance on the local scale; however, this will hardly exceed the effect of the spontaneously proliferating animal populations. Nothing to say about geological phenomena. Human actions spin around the immediate needs, locally. Even assuming some presence in the outer space. When the crazy ecology defenders complain about the global injuries of the rapacious capitalism, they either demonstrate their stupidity in sorting the buyers from the spyers, or just earn their money by doing the dirty work of mass brainwashing in order to strengthen the power of those very capitalist spoilers. An animal has a very limited choice all trough its lifetime: it only eats, then defecates (and virtually breeds). Humans have not yet gone much farther. On the face of it, they remain a typical natural process regulated by natural mechanisms; on the planetary scale, the humanity is yet on minor importance. When thing start getting much worse, a compensatory burst will dump the effect, and the pendulum will sway to the other side.

So far, the global humanity is incapable to significantly influence the global nature. The planet-wide metabolism does not much depend on our efforts and rather proceeds in spite of the humanity's intentions often bringing the results of activity to naught. Dazzled with imaginary achievements, people would not catch signs of the forthcoming change, or would fancy them in an entirely different way. On every corner, there are clear signs of our fragility; for humans, almost any natural event turns out to be a catastrophe. Nature does not care: the winds just blows, the rain just falls... While the human arrangements are smashed to bits or washed away. We cannot withstand a banal snowfall or freshet; nothing to say about tsunamis, volcanos and earthquakes. The lithospheric plates drift their usual way, the Earth axis deviates according to physical laws, the magnetic poles wander here and there... This naturally affects the character of atmospheric and oceanic currents, the resizing of the seasons, the distribution of animal species... The planet would hardly ever notice the presence of the humanity. They can raze a mounting; well, yet another will grow. They can turn the flow of a river; alright, something else will flow. They pollute the seas with plastic; no problem, some future microbe will be absolutely happy with so much foodstuff, with a dozen biocenoses upon it. All we do is small and primitive. Nothing comparable to the omnipotence of reason. We are just move natural substances from one place to another, changing the material form of the same, always within the limits of the rudely animal metabolism. For centuries, animals used to can the light of the Sun in their organisms; humans have eaten the potted goods and switched to the same canning activity on an industrial scale, with no back thought of the necessity of complementing faster accumulation with more efficient radiative discharge. Energy does not disappear; it only flows from one form into another, and will sometime break free as yet another catastrophe, in the humans sense. Still, at the present rate of activity, we cannot do much harm but to ourselves. It is too early to tickle our vanity by the presumable capacity of changing the climate of the planet.

The Earth knew many hard times in the past, up to almost complete extermination of the living kind. But nothing has changed in essence. Other species have overtaken the former domains of the dead. After a wave of excessive heat, the glaciers within a few steps from the equator. The landscapes change as they need; the climate drifts from one extremity to another all the time. The Sun goes around the center of the Galaxy, and the processes inside the solar system depend on that too, including the earthly affairs. By the way, do you recall the last big ice age? It seems like it was just one galactic year ago... Maybe, it's high time to get back?

The human perception has been brought up on the everyday life scale. We are just starting to embrace the changes of an essentially wider scope. We are sheer naught, even in the eyes of geology, and even less for the far space evolution. With all that, we get readily intoxicated with the faintest signs of power, up to entirely abandoning the habit of being attentive to nature, listening to its breath. It is quite possible, that the coming changes are already hear, revealing themselves in thousands of hints; however, the mercenary ecology of today would nip any endeavor of a sober assessment right in the bud. Quick change is only possible where it has been thoroughly prepared. For instance, while dancing, we arrange the body for the next movement well in advance; the public won't see that, waiting for the final point, the completion. Similarly, natural transformations may seem to happen fast; but there is a long prelude of accumulating the minute conditions, the elements of the future mosaic.

The modern humanity is like tangled reeds. The rare thinking sprouts are lost in there. Will they survive in the end?