Who I am

Okay, listen up. This is your Mom speaking.

Some of you know me as Mother Nature. Those who do are mostly people who live close to the earth and depend on it and the rains I provide, and the sunshine that I filter through the atmosphere in order to provide safe energy for all my children. However, a great many of you no longer live that way. You have put this very basic way of life behind you. And this, by itself, is not a bad thing. Except . . . in so doing you have forgotten who I am. You would do well to remember. You have forgotten that it is I who allow you to live. I am not just the mother of you, I am the mother and the manager of all that lives on this planet. I believe I should be treated with respect.

Sadly, you act as if you don’t know the meaning of the word. You seem to feel that you are more important than me, your Mother. Most of you feel that you can manage me to suit your own selfish needs without giving a thought to consequences. You believe you can suck the poisons I have buried deep in the earth, then burn them and foul my air. You believe you can strip my forests, denude my prairies and oceans and turn them into deserts. You believe you can pollute my lakes and streams so long as it serves your purpose to do so. You believe that you are more important than any other living thing on this planet and that you can do with these other living beings as you wish. And, you believe that your God gave you license to do all this.

Well, you are wrong.

I am the Mother of every living thing that lives and dies upon this world. I exist to manage this place. Among all my children, I have no favorites.

Lately, I have not been feeling as well as I should. Not sick, exactly. It is like I have little itchy things crawling over my skin and burrowing into it and infesting my body. I know what is causing this discomfort. It is you.

Now then, as you may know, a Mother is patient. But there is a limit and that limit has been reached. When your actions reached the point where they began to harm all of my other children, like any mother I became concerned. Now, having watched your behavior for a sufficient length of time, I have determined that you are probably too selfish to change. You do not seem to know your place in this world. Because of this, I have decided that if you will not mend your ways, and soon, then you must go.