Introduction:
In what can best be described as a tragedy, one group, the Dinosaurs, refuse to believe that their 160 million year reign on planet Earth might end due to a meteor forecast by a different group—the Monkeys—a species who hasn’t even ascended to planetary attachment. “Therefore, the alarm comes from a less than capable species, the Monkeys,” declares Hephestus Rex.
Worse, the dinosaurs know the Monkeys will doom themselves by their mode of thought. How do the Dinosaurs know this? You don’t stay masters of a planet for 220 million years by dumb luck. You stay master of a planet by respecting it.
The story is a tragedy because both species are correct, but neither will give credence to the other’s insights.
This is the sad truth to intransigence: It always arrive too late to correct myopia.
Earth Day is here again. Let’s respect the planet.
A Guest Post: By Hephestus T. Rex, Director, Save the Chi Foundation: This first appeared as text on May 17, 2012.