HumANomaly

Welcome to my blog. This blog is about everything. I chose the name HumANomaly because my focus will be on Humanity and the Anomaly that it is on this planet, and quite possibly in the entire universe.

Humanity, the species we know as homo sapiens, is unique among all other species on planet earth. The impact that we have had on the face of the planet often overshadows the fact that we are only one of an unknown number of species that vie for space on this planet.

In the context we are an anomaly. We are the only species that poses a threat to its own existence. We often try to excuse the violence that marks our species by pointing to the violence that exists in nature. But the deadly violence we observe in nature is usually inter-species violence. The lion is a threat to the gazelle but not to other lions. And even then lions don't engage in gratuitous killing of gazelles.

In addition to the personal threat we pose to other humans we are a threat to our species because of our misuse of other species.

This blog is based on the idea that nature presents a model of how humans can live together in peaceful coexistence as the other species do, as well as how we can reverse the threat we now face to each other. We need to pay more careful attention to what nature has been trying to teach us. If we do we will find that we will no longer have to speak of "A Planet in Peril."