One for all and All for One .

National Geographic’s Strange Days: The One Degree Factor was a very interesting look at how even the most seemingly insignificant change in environment could have a giant and cascading effect on the world.  The issues in the Caribbean which includes the increased rates of childhood asthma in Trinidad and the reef disease present in the Virgin Island, demonstrated how the earth is extremely balance and that issues in one part of the world can greatly affect the other part.    I found it amazing that due to the heating of the Indian Ocean, which caused increased storms, affected the North Atlantic oscillation which then causes increased dust to be brought over to the Americas for an abnormally increased rate of time.  A mouth full isn’t it!  Thinking about it, the whole process reminds me of what James Lovelock states as Gaia,  which is described in Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers.  Flannery states, “The atmosphere, Lovelock concluded, is Gaia’s great organ of interconnection and temperature regulation.  He described it as “not merely a biological product, but more probably a biological construction: not living, but like a cat’s fur, a bird’s feathers, or the paper nest of a wasp, an extension of a living system designed to maintain a chosen environment. “    The interconnectedness that all living things have in this planet we call earth is truly amazing and at the same time should scare us horribly.  We have intentionally and unintentionally cause immense damage to the environment and to most living things on the planet, some of which is irreversible.   By doing so, we have also cause our own sufferance and possibly taken a promising future away from the human race.  I guess the three musketeers had it right by saying, “One for all, and all for one.”   Our fate is ultimately intertwined with the fate of all living things on this earth, even if we view some of them as insignificant and of no value.