Eaarth - Lightly, Carefully, Gracefully

"Diversity is everything. It goes all the way down to a handful of soil - which has more species, more biodiversity, thank a whole square mile above ground. And the way we farm is killing a lot of that right off." (174)
       This excerpt from the book Eaarth is really at the heart of the issue we have as humans. As I have been reading Ishmael by Daniel Quinn I have seen that humans think that they are above all other species because the Earth and universe were made just for them. From there humans continue to conquer everything that falls into their paths, including other species. This causes for us to want to control these species which means we have to take out the variation among them. Without variation there is no longer diversity or any robust makeup of species because if one thing goes wrong everything does.
       The more we control the world the less complex it gets. As we all know we are constantly killing off species of plants and animals each day. You can see here of all the effects that humans have had on species degradation. We must focus on diversity as we do with social issues, but instead with special variation. We must also realize that this world is not ours to have.
       There is nothing that definitively states that we are entitled to everything here or anything at all. Agriculture in itself is a manipulation of the natural world that is a consequence of us thinking we can control such things.