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//Okay so I've had this up for like three days and I don't know where it went and please take it with a grain of salt because it's such a mess and I can't be bothered/don't know how to continue it so here, enjoy!//

Okay so I just watched a science documentary [Pr. Brian Cox ain't my favourite but it wan't bad, made me think- just too aesthetic, not enough science] and I'm such a science nerd. Like, it runs in my family, from my dad and my sister, but sCiEnCe! Anyways, the documentary was about life and how extraordinary it is and the planet and evolution and stuff. Like blue photons, horses and eukaryotes and prokaryotes, oxygenless cave systems, and how oxygenic photosynthesis is only done one way. Before watching the show though, I'd been contemplating how animals can sense volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, how cats always land on their feet [I actually know this, it's so cool], how ants can fall from 40 feet up and still not die. Combined with the 'wonders of life' all I could think was how useless we are. I mean, we're not actually useless, but we rely on other things to do things for us. That could be classed as its own kind of amazing, I suppose, except we are fragile, senseless, dependent beings. I don't really care, it's not bad as such, and we're doing pretty well. I just don't see how we can hold ourselves above pretty much every life-form when we clearly are at the very most equal to every other life-form. There's nothing wrong with needing help, with not being the best; in fact, not being the best can drive you to create things, to be innovative, to work with what you've got and make the best of it. We are capable of doing extraordinary things- proven by going to space and predicting disasters and the device you're reading this on right now. And yet, we continue to rely on outdated ways, to ruin and exploit the Earth and it's non-renewable natural resources, ignoring the sustainable and probably even reasonably cheaper resources in favour of a little bit of cash right now. What will all the big shot coal miners do when there's no more coal? They'll go broke- they might be able to find another source of money sure, but what about countries [Australia] who's economy is largely sustained by our coal exports? It'll take a lot longer for the country to recover if we've got no other plans set for the future. No one ever thinks about the future, the long-run. Politicians at least. No long-term job plans, or economy safe-nets, or environmental conservation and preservation.