Balance of Nature

In my opinion, all things or most things in nature are balance, must balance and will be balanced. The "balance" I mean is not sort of justice or equal in amount, but what I mean is in the original state.

OK, let me give an example that exist in this world, that is the ecosystem. You see, flora and fauna are arranged in a pyramid table which roughly shows the numbers they should exist. The producer has the most numbers, followed by primary consumer, secondary consumer and tertiary consumer. Sometimes, the numbers of any organisms in any trophic level of the pyramid table will rise or decrease due to some environmental factors or other reasons. Anyway, the whole system will be affected and after some periods, the system will return to its original state. I will give a simple instance: "In the paddy field, snake's population decreases drastically. When the snake's population decreases, the number of eagles will eventually decrease as they lack of food or maybe killed in a competition for food. On the other hand, rats will increase in numbers as their predators have decreased in numbers. When rats is getting more and more, the paddy plant will get less and less. So, how is it balanced back? When rats become more and eagles become less, the snake will have a favourable condition which enables its population to increase. When snakes get more in number, rats' decrease, crops' increase, and eagles' increase. All are back to normal."

What I really want to say aren't about foodweb but it's about the relationship between humans and nature. Nowadays, the population of humans increases rapidly and can't be controlled by the ecosystem as we, humans have intelligence to avoid being the preys, but to be the predators. Humans are getting more and more, and humans carried out lot of activities that will harm the nature, like using up the unrenewable resources, polluting the environment and destroying the balance of nature. Humans reign this Earth, that is what we see. But, actually, we aren't! The highest power is still in the hand of our Mother Nature. Humans' population are actually still being controlled. How is it controlled? One of the answers is through natural disasters, like earthquake, volcano eruptions, flood, tornado, hurricane, landslide, avalanche, tsunami .... I'm not saying that the mother nature purposely do so to kill us but it is like the disaster will happen in a few areas. As humans' population increases, we will occupy more areas in this Earth, which means that we are more exposed to disaster because some of us have entered the DANGER areas where disaster will strike. It's just like a piece of land where landmines are burried. The more people in there, the higher the percentage of people getting hurt. This is how mother nature keep us in balance. It's only my thought, not a fact.

Some disasters are caused by humans ourselves, such as flood and landslide. We throw rubbish into rivers and drains, clogging them and what happens is flood. We cut down the trees, resulting in soil erosion and what happens are landslide and flash floods. Don't you think we are somehow commiting suicide? We are not only committing suicide but we are risking other innocent lives! So, we humans ourselves are also controlling our own population by inviting disasters. Humans are also the agent to control our population. There are good guys and bad guys too in this world. I think I'm a good one(haha). Back to what I just mention about, the increase in number of humans also means that there is an increase in the number of bad guys. Bad guys will kill good guys and good guys will kill bad guys by law. Crimes increases, death increases. Besides, competition will decrease numbers too, but mostly happens among flora and fauna. Anyway, in some rural areas, some people will kill each others in order to get food. The more the number of humans, the more the occurance of carelessness, the more the number of accidents. And, accidents that kill the most people are road accidents. More people, more cars, more accidents!

There is an existance of an action and a reaction. We do an action and we will get a reaction. Something changes, something will try to make it return to its original state(in certain condition only). Humans keep polluting the environment, Mother Nature will get angry and don't ever force her to choose her final choice - destroy everything and then build again!!! Ice age is a good example. Dinosaurs reign this Earth for quite a long time, I don't know what happens but Mother Nature decides to destroy everthing, killing most of the organisms, then it's time to rebuild the Earth with greenery. After some times later, some tiny organisms which survive from it will change become other organisms through evolution. It's just like the movie "Evans All Mighty". The movies revolves around a man who is chosen by God to run Noah's task, that is to build a giant ark to carry animals and humans as there will be a large flood coming. Then, after the flood, everything starts from beginning. Everything is back in balance. Maybe ice age is just a cycle that has to be undergone, everthing will eventually be balanced back.