Ecology

The study of relationships among organisms in ecosystems. The term comes from the German "oekologie." Ecology is the study of how humanity learns that they are not ruled by god or mythological texts such as the Bible. Ecology states how the balance of life is based on scientific principals. In the biosphere, each part is connected and dependent on all the other parts so that when corporations dump poisonous substance or radioactive waste into our neighborhoods, those toxins will end up killing life or creating diseases such as cancer. Neoconservative corporate stooges and Christian nutcases insist that unregulated capitalism is good for humans but this ignores the basic reality of ecology. Unregulated capitalism and greed kill many people by ignoring the basic ecological principal that what you put into the environment stays in the environment.

Prayer will not stop poison from causing cancer. Money will not protect you if the air is so polluted that you will die. Global warming is an example of how capitalism and neoconservative greed are destroying the planet you live on and the one your children will grow up in. Global warming is caused by human industrialist practices such as polluting factories and automobiles. By burning fossil fuels, carbon dioxide is released into the biosphere. Previous to the industrialist revolution of capitalism the atmosphere was balanced with life affirming concentrations of atmospheric gases. With the huge addition of carbon dioxide from factories and automobiles the balance of atmospheric gases has become disrupted. Remember, everything is connected to everything else. So ExxonMobil makes billions of dollars and your children are doomed to live in a far different world than the one we now inhabit, one that will be far less productive and hungrier.

Ecology is a branch of science. Praying will not make global warming go away. Huge corporations will continue to lie and corrupt our system of politcal representation to make money. And the ecology of our biosphere, which supports human life, will erode.

The best way to protect the environment is to pay attention to how you affect the ecology of the system of planet Earth. Pay attention to how much you are consuming junk. Do not purchase usesless products from giant corporations. Buy locally produced goods. And above all, stop allowing religious nuts and neoconservatives to tell you that dumping poison into the environment is necessary for America. Read James Lovelock and E. O. Wilson rather than watch Fox News.==References==