Nature is Not All Warm and Fuzzy

By Rich Kozlovich

First let's try and get this right.  Nature doesn't love us!  There really is no such thing as Mother Nature, all warm and fuzzy loving us.   Nature is a bio mechanical physical reality that is in point of fact in an unending quest to kill us.   Not consciously, as nature has no intellectual awareness, or a conscience.   Nature is what it is, dangerous.

What it does have are Earthquakes, lightening, pestilence, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, extreme temperatures, diseases, drought, famine, and wild animals which are all part of that an unending quest to kill us, and we've been in the battle for all of human existence, thus the need for development that can change our environment.

The information below was originally published in 2014, but it's been hit lately, and I'm of the opinion even when this stuff isn't in the headlines, it needs to be thrust into the arena to remind people about reality. 

Let's start by disabusing ourselves of the idea that wild animals are Disney characters.  They're violent and.....let's get this right......they will kill people, they will kill livestock, they will kill children, and they will kill pets. In short - settlers killed them when they moved into an area because they weren’t safe to have around. Why is that so hard to understand? 

While jogging in a with her military husband a woman was attacked by a mother bear that had cubs with her.  The assumption is the bear attacked in fear for her cubs.  Maybe, maybe not, I don't know, and neither does anyone else know for that matter as to why the bear reacted as it did.  Bears can't talk, and they can't explain their actions.   But this is what we absolutely know; bears are wild animals, and there's a reason they're called wild animals.  They're dangerous!  Really....they really are dangerous!   So don't let the leftist nuts who want to reintroduce these animals in and around communities fool you.  There are consequences for that, negative consequences. 

A number of years ago there was a “nature is warm and fuzzy” nut by the name of Timothy Treadwell  who proclaimed grizzly bears were all misunderstood and needed be embraced…because he did “research” that demonstrated “he could get close to bears with his gentle and non-threatening personality and communicate with them. Treadwell boasted that he could understand their communication and they could understand him. He claimed that he knew 21 bear vocalizations and various different body languages. He wanted to see if he could be accepted by 1,000 pound wild coastal brown bears.”  

(Editor's Note:  The link to that article no longer works. RK)

He was hyped by the leftist celebrity crowd and gained a substantial amount of notoriety. But it was like every other phony philosophical flavor of the day perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. His name wasn’t even Treadwell, it was Dexter, and everything he said, and everything he said he did was a phony as his name. Well, reality finally caught up to Dexter. 

 

Dexter and his girlfriend both died practicing his theories on real wild bears, in a truly wild environment, not with semi-tame bears in a national park where he did "his research".  It appears this wild brown bear (a really big nasty wild brown bear) didn't speak the same language as Dexter.  Imagine that!  Reality stuck as this bear didn't understand, or care about a thing he said.  So, guess what?  It resorted to character and killed Dexter, along with his girlfriend....and ate them.

There are two benefits to this story.

• First, he truly qualified for the Darwin Award. What's the criteria for nomination? The Darwin Award is presented - posthumously - to those who contributed to human evolution by self-selecting themselves out of humanities gene pool in the most sublime fashion, i.e., in the most idiotic manner.  
• Secondly we can now dismiss all the misleading and dangerous horsepucky he promoted about bears.   Once again, wild animals are called wild because they're dangerous, and they kill, and that’s why they’re called “wild”.  

Do I really have to emphasize that?