A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe

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54. Each and every one of us believes...

...deep inside some obscure gene that we are the center of the universe and we are god. At this moment, some tiny bacteria in your gut is saying to itself "it's good (or not) to be-all and end-all". Some slime mold in a laboratory is telling itself "as soon as I glide perfectly (again) through this damn maze I'm gonna tell those big things where to stick it". Imagine what fruit files have planned for us. And don't forget to apologize to your lettuce.
You and I evolved with that same self-centeredness because it was necessary for survival. Imagine the first hominid standing upright in the veldt, looking around, realizing the futility of it all and committing suicide. Not much future for that species.
Instead we kept our heads down, ran for our lives, scavenged a relatively safe spot and congratulated ourselves on intelligence and clever planning. The intention (keep road to hell in mind) was to stay there forever, safe from pesky tigers. The trouble with tigers is they shape-shift into nukes.
Change is dangerous. An odd comet in the sky changed earth. Ask a dinosaur. Discovery of gravity waves will...who knows...introduce communication with other dimensions? That could certainly change a few textbooks. Similar to finding inhabitants on other planets. We are right to be afraid.
My choice for permanence would be long, tender southern nights, lying on grasses soft with dew, listening to whippoorwills, bobwhites and my own breathing, safe in dark lit by every star in the universe and a saber of light from a train so far away it can't be heard. Hard as I've tried, couldn't stop it all going under concrete. I hate change!
But I want to ride on a rocket ship.