The Earth

Just how much of global

warming is our prodigious

sin no one seems to know

with any precision.  Is there

good in everything, though?

Given renewable and rational

management the living resources

of the oceans are almost infinitely

sustainable as long as the elaborate

ecosystems on which the sea is an

integral part are not seriously

disturbed.  How wondrous, how

beautiful, how mystical this complex

ecosystem is, as if natural selection

had fitted its participants for a world

in which humans had yet to visit.  Let

us give thanks to marine organisms who

seem conscious of being built into the

life histories of humans, whose world

we ask and seek to share.