The Cost of Living
In the terms of economics, cost is the money paid for getting goods or services. When cost need to be defined from the perspective of nature, things get bit compels and indefinable. Cost basically is something given when something is taken.
Nature should and would have appointed bookkeepers and accountants to maintain registers to know what has been taken from it and what has been given back to it. If such a register is maintained for all species on earth both in the plant and the animal kingdom, it sends an uncomforting wave to humans.
The authoritative arrogance of a self-established caretaker role of nature simply pushes mankind to a corner where this so-called creative species become helpless in answering the wrath of nature. On finalizing the accounts for both plant species and animal species, the records are near to balance for all but for one species, the humans.
All species live with available natural supplies and fall into an agreement to abide by the food chain rule. They abide by the rules of nature to such an extent that the raw material nature is neither exploited nor abused. Right from the time of birth till the time of death humans have survived a life by using the natural resources to an extent completely beyond the imaginations of other species.
The cost of living for humans has pushed them, as a whole species, into a debt trap in the records of nature. Whenever a species oversteps into an arena of over exploitation of natural resources, the equation of extinction is triggered to implement a balance. Nature with its mighty tools will initiate the process of extinction of a species when it becomes a burden and a liability because of own making.
Before nature gets to reconcile the statement for humans, it will be better to pay all the debts accumulated as a result of the cost of living.
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