Arthur Rosenfeld: A Deep Reason to Counter Perry and Bachmann

Homo sapiens as a species exhibits all the signs of having run rampant in groundbreaking fashion. Our numbers are too high for our environment to sustain us in a way that allows the planetary superorganism to flourish. All the evidence is there, from mass extinctions in every phylum around us to habitat destruction, unprecedented levels of toxic products in the environment, and more. Deep ecologists would say that in the face of this imbalance, the planet is fighting back.

How does a planet fight back? Perhaps with climate change, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and threats to the food supply such as the dying off of bees, but more definitely with more personal weapons, maybe even triggers inside our own DNA. Autoimmune diseases spring immediately to mind, as do sexual activities and proclivities that don't lead to reproduction (no babies means no population growth) heart disease, cancer, and mutating pathogens such as new flu and malaria strains. The automobile, too, is an uncannily effective human-slaughtering device.

Arthur Rosenfeld

Arthur Rosenfeld is an authority on the spiritual dimensions of Eastern thinking for a Western world. Tai chi master, author, speaker, and teacher, he is a contributor to national magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Parade and has been seen on national television (including his own PBS show) and radio networks. He is the author of eleven critically-acclaimed books. Distinctions include being the only novelist whose work was promoted and sold on a federal government website