Do most of the humans think that they are independent, and if attacked will get their own back?

    It is necessary to understand that Nature is everything that exists. Everything in the world depends on one another, and the human beings are no exception.

    I will give an example below so that we can become more aware of what nature is all about.

    Let's suppose a human body. We have many different types of cells, tissues, organs, arms, legs, fingers, etc.

    We give more importance to specific parts of the body, organs, cells, but are those parts considered less important useless? Don't we need them?

    Just because we can spend some time without using them doesn't mean we don't need those other parts. We can't do harm to them because a "pain" would wake us up. A small foot cell is not as vital as a brain neuron but certainly has its importance. When somebody tries to physically hit us, we try to defend ourselves protecting the organs we see as the most important. If we get injured, then comes pain or fever, that is, the body tries to get over it itself. When an organ is injured, the whole body feels it, confirmed by weight loss, dizziness, sensation of being sick.

    An injury on the sole of the foot doesn't cause so much worry as it would if it was on a vital organ. However, if care is not taken the injury can become serious and damage the whole body.

    Now let's see the other side of the coin.

    When we use agrochemicals, germicides, vermifuges and antibiotics, we are killing lives that have their role in nature. They multiply themselves randomly because they find the right environment. We don't know how important they are for nature, nor we know how important all the cells of our foot are. Every time we use agrochemicals, germicides or antibiotics we are fighting the effects. The number of living species is controlled by the amount and quality of food (proportions of nutrients). If the foods meet both conditions, there will be proliferation of that species. Any other action taken to control that living species other than restrict the amount and quality of food, that is, re-establish the balance means fighting the effects not the cause, turning the problem into a snowball.

    In order to make it clear, take a look this example: The world is overcrowded, therefore there was enough food in both quality and quantity which contributed to that population growth. Nowadays, with the constant destruction of nature, the foods are imbalanced and of low quality in addition to bad habits responsible for reducing their quality even more. That's why we see old diseases on their way back, new ones coming up and the remaining seen more frequently.

    I am not playing it up when I say it is a real snowball. The agrochemicals harm plants, making them more vulnerable, new plagues become more resistant. It is necessary to use stronger agrochemicals and so on. What is left over from the chemicals get dragged away by the rainwater into rivers, dams, streams which provide water for cities, small towns, villages, farms, animals and inevitably men.

    The other day a friend of mine told me that he had sprayed herbicide on to a pasture to kill off weeds but some time later he noticed that some of his sheep started to give birth to disabled offsprings. The upper jaws were bigger than the lower jaws and as a result they couldn't breastfeed. The sheep only licked the offsprings but rejected them. This was due to the residues from the herbicides. The industry claims that it is necessary to avoid the pasture for a certain time, but all the rules were followed so how to account for that?

    We come to the conclusion that there is an interdependence between the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom. So, we can notice beyond our material senses that things depend on one another.

    There's a question that fits like a glove: "Why do plants fall ill? The agrochemicals are responsible for most of the diseases in plants".

    The news tell us: The lions in Africa usually die after eating buffalos with tuberculosis. The buffalos transmitted the bacillus to the lions. Bacilli are living species, so they can only grow if there is enough food in both quantity and quality. The bacillus will develop if it finds the right environment. It developed in the buffalo because it found ideal conditions to grow. So, following the food chain we get to the pasture where the buffalos feed on. The pastures provide imbalanced food to the buffalos paving the way for the bacillus to develop. Nevertheless, the pastures where the buffalos feed on are natural, there's no aggression caused by men. The existing vast plain land (plain land - kind of relief of very old soils) that suffered leaching over a long time (leaching - process through which mineral elements are dragged away from the soil by waters). When the lions fed on the buffalos, they took in the mineral deficiency, so the lions also fell ill.

    The example above outlines the interdependence of the tree kingdoms.

    This interdependence seen in the kingdoms is present in everything in nature and is very logical.
We are so closely linked to one another that if we spot someone doing harm to something we could well complain about it, as it would also cause harm to us. We would be completely right in doing so, because we would be protesting in self-defence.

SO, WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

Arapiraca - Al, 28/11/98

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