Ecological Balance: Nature's Perpetual Motion Machine?
Environmentalists have declared a unilateral moratorium on Earth's nature.
Let me explain.
Since Homo sapiens appeared here, about 2.5 million years ago, its existence and that of terrestrial mammals has only been possible with the disappearance of the dinosaurs, resulting from a huge global cataclysm that destroyed them, caused by the impact of a gigantic meteorite. But nature, in its wisdom, has been shaping the universe through what has been called creative destruction (Schumpeter). Great natural catastrophes gave us Homo sapiens, Sugarloaf Mountain, Everest, and oil through the submersion and violent inversion of the Earth's crust, destroying and burying forests and animals.
Now, environmentalists want to freeze paradise, as if they could prevent the world from disappearing as we know it today. But that's not all: they've already decided which creatures should survive destruction by humans, choosing some species for their beauty and other incomprehensible criteria, such as golden lion tamarins, sea turtles, and manatees, but excluding cockroaches, rats, venomous insects, flies, and mosquitoes (including the dengue mosquito). After all, what criterion is this by which humans have already exterminated at least one species, smallpox? I wish they had chosen snakes and great white sharks.
Nature is amoral, unethical, has no self-awareness, no memory, feels no pain, has no purpose, no principles, is not teleological, is not conservationist; in short, the concept of ecological balance is nothing more than a humanization of nature through the perspective of civilization's observation of it, Nature.
In nature, there is neither good nor bad, neither right nor wrong. If you are faced with a snake, a lion, a crocodile, or a shark, they will do what they always do without remorse or morality; attributing vices or virtues to Nature is nothing more than a subjective human judgment.
The universe is an enormous chaos, where life is just a small and insignificant detail, a luxury of planet Earth, for now. No plant or animal species is more important or more imposing than the Sahara Desert, with its sea of lifelessness, is as important as dense ecosystems like the Amazon.
The beauty of forests is merely a subjective perspective.
After all, the desert has far less utility for human survival than the forest, hence we judge everything by its usefulness from a human point of view.
For ecological balance to be maintained, humanity will have to provide enormous help to nature, given that our planet is destined to disappear: either through the implosion of our star, the Sun, or through its explosion, a cosmic storm of gamma rays, beta rays, and alpha radiation, released by a quasar or black holes, which in a fraction of a second will sweep away all traces of life and living systems on Earth.
Earth itself, in its cycle of periodic glaciations, will clean up life here again, or the final movement of tectonic plates will change the architecture of mountains, valleys, forests, seas, and oceans. Therefore, for paradise to survive, we must send missions to the quadrants of the universe to collect samples of life and seek other addresses, carrying human DNA and the DNA of the species found here. This, indeed, is the only alternative for maintaining ecological balance, because Nature is not programmed to do so or maintain it without human intervention.
Ecological balance is purely an intention and invention of humans.
Such ecological balance has never existed in nature.
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