So what's going on with the spate of fatal alligator attacks in Florida?
Officials cite various reasons, including the time of year, pressures to find a mate and the possibility that these particular reptiles were simply more aggressive than others.
But some biologists think that it's not the gators that are the problem. The real culprit is...
us.
Yes, you read it right. Us people. The same ones who continue to drain every square acre of wetland available for homes and malls and churches and shopping centers.
The Everglades National Park, once a teeming watery wilderness, is now just one seventh of its former size. The Everglades, known as the River of Grass, was once part of a five million acre plus watershed that covered more than one-third of the state of Florida.
Most people today accept the idea, once radical, that we humans are part of the Earth. We cannot continue to erode the Earth's habitats and expect that we will not reap the consequences.
Gator attacks in Florida, cougar attacks in the American West, Black bears scavenging in backyard trash cans in upstate New York...
and on a larger scale, Hurricaine Katrina.
What is good for the Earth is naturally good for us. Why is that such a radical idea to some?
See ya later, alligator...
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