Column: Reality Check

By Bill Boivin, Columnist

I awoke early one morning to the comforting sounds of coyotes singing and a great horned owl calling, both very near my house.

It was a sharp contrast to the constant daytime sounds of leafblowers and lawnmowers, and it reassured me that no matter how many roads we pave or trees we cut, nature still exists all around us.  

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It has been said that mankind is destroying the planet. That is a naïve presumption. We humans don’t have that kind of power. We may be on a path to destroy ourselves, but Mother Nature is much more powerful than we are. Even if humans were to destroy the entire surface of the earth, the ancient biological entities from which we emerged eons ago will still reside deep underground and at the bottom of the ocean. 

They will persist and evolve until another form of life crawls out from the primordial slime onto the surface once again – hopefully without our “intelligence.”