The environmental movement now insists that we leave Earth alone. If we take them at their most radical, we should all just kill ourselves and make sure animals are around to eat what’s left of our decaying flesh. There’s just no other way to look at it. No matter where we try and cut trees, drill for oil, pump gas out of ground or build homes, we are in wrong.

There is a difference between being good stewards of our environment and abandoning it. People are here to stay and we all need places to live, ways to get around and things to eat. Learning from past mistakes, we now produce less pollution and live in a cleaner environment. We use items that place less of a strain on earth resources. We have even found ways to help save other living things that were disappearing on their own from our world. By cutting forests, we forestall inevitable fires, save wildlife and gain a needed source of lumber.

Green Extremists are not environmentalists. They are self-hating humans who feel we a plague on planet. People have not always been wise in way they have dealt with environment, however they may also be world’s best hope. Many scientists tell us that without people and natural progression of their development, world would fall into an environmental stalemate. If dinosaurs were around today, most people would do everything possible to save such rare and exotic animals from extinction.

Humans have always been fascinated with animals. President Teddy Roosevelt was a hunter, but he also saw need to protect wild animals and environment. He did this by creating refuges and special areas that were protected by federal government against overuse or abuse by people. In short, Roosevelt was a sensible environmentalist. He helped create a way for humans, animals and nature to co-exist. Today’s extreme green fanatics could and should take a lesson from Teddy.

Impressed? You should be! By now you know that I can’t even begin to make this machine, even with all technology today or in next thousand years. So I’ll confess right now that I can’t make it, even if I wanted to. So it would be no way that it could just happen by accident? And I don’t feel bad that I can’t build it because neither can anyone else. Not even a team of scientists, engineers, and inventors.

Now let me say that I am not talking about science-fiction, I am talking about something that is very real. And it’s been around for thousands of years, too. It’s not really a machine, though because no machine will ever be able to be so complex and do so many things by itself. A machine, by comparison, is a crude and stupid device. But this is real. It’s called a “cell”. Your body is made up of literally billions of them, each functioning on it’s own without any instruction from you. They all work together with every other cell in body to maintain and support life. They never go to class but you will have to if you want to begin to understand what little we actually know about them.

Maybe you were not aware that a cell was so much more wonderful than any machine made by man could ever be. And more complicated, too. More than any machine that could be built.

Which brings me to question...Who did?