All Living Beings, Not Just Animals, But

The Urgency To Mate Persists In All People As In All Other Mammals Because Of The Evolutionary Drive To Continue The Species, The Inborn Imperative For Genes To Reproduce And Hormonal Differences That Evolved Over Millions Of Years.

Body Concentrates Order. It Continuously Self-repairs. Every Five Days You Get A New Stomach Lining. You Get A New Liver Every Two Months. Your Skin Replaces Itself Every Six Weeks. Every Year, 98 Percent Of The Atoms Of Your Body Are Replaced. This Non-stop Chemical Replacement, Metabolism, Is A Sure Sign Of Life.

To Romp Along The Connected Rooftops And Fire Escapes Of Chicagos Second City Of Garages Was My Young Lifes Passion.

To Me, The Human Move To Take Responsibility For The Living Earth Is Laughable - The Rhetoric Of The Powerless. The Planet Takes Care Of Us, Not We Of It. Our Self-inflated Moral Imperative To Guide A Wayward Earth, Or Heal Our Sick Planet, Is Evidence Of Our Immense Capacity For Self Delusion. Rather, We Need To Protect Ourselves From Ourselves.

The Idea That We Are "stewards Of The Earth" Is Another Symptom Of Human Arrogance. Imagine Yourself With The Task Of Overseeing Your Body's Physical Processes. Do You Understand The Way It Works Well Enough To Keep All Its Systems In Operation? Can You Make Your Kidneys Function? Can You Control The Removal Of Waste? Are You Conscious Of The Blood Flow Through Your Arteries, Or The Fact That You Are Losing A Hundred Thousand Skin Cells A Minute?