4.5 Billion Year Old Masterpiece Faces Ruin

Earth - this 3rd rock from the sun was formed much in the same way as our sun and other planets in our solar system. Solar nebula, a gigantic cloud of dust particles and hot gases, with the main constituent elements of hydrogen and helium. As the nebula contracted our solar system was formed. During the contraction process the temperature cooled down. As a result of cooling, shrinking and rapid rotation, the outer part of the cloud got detached from the main body in the form of rings.

Each of the detached rings cooled and shrank further. Then, gradually they clustered together to form a globe. Over a period of time the temperature continued to decrease and the globe solidified into what was the beginning of Earth.

As the atmosphere of the Earth formed and stabilized over million of years, elementary life began as simple bacteria. These simple life forms gradually evolved over million and billion more years into complex life forms. And life continued to evolve and diversified into myriads of species of different shapes, sizes and complexities.

Earth has enjoyed millennia of evolution and is steaming with life; and ecosystem, species and genetic diversities. We may look at Earth now and admire the magnificent network of ecosystems and array of biodiversity. But yet, everything is interconnected and in balance until, we humans, disrupt nature's balance in the name of economic growth and progress.

This 4.5 billion year old masterpiece is under major threat, not from outer space, nor ETs (as portrayed in some high end, money making Hollywood imaginations), but from us - humans.

We have reached a planetary crisis with all the life threatening phenomena of global warming, food shortage, water scarcity, epidemic outbreaks and natural disasters. All this is the ramification of the livestock industry and we are partaking in our own demise by supporting it with our food choice of animal products.

This year we have seen some major catastrophes around the world, and more so towards the end of the year. This trend will continue in 2011 if we do not act quick by changing into a healthier and life saving vegan diet. The latest disaster is the volcano eruption in Indonesia, with 22 volcanoes active.