Indeed we do. It's naive and wishful thinking to imagine otherwise. Go outside and lie on the earth and ask for insight on a universal level. You will hear about our petty, human arrogance, our technological genius, and the ways in which the earth hopes to survive it when we don't - when the feedback loop closes upon humanity like a vice or the jaws of a giant, justice-driven beast because of our lack of actual, sensory, FEELING intelligence.

Not that the earth minds, on a grander level, whether she survives the coming human cataclysm or not. For she knows that in the scheme of things, LIFE will go on; and she knows better than anyone that we know not what we do. The earth knows that we are lost and she finds us faultless even as she holds us accountable. We are her children, lost souls, adrift upon the endless sea of our own ineptitude and corruption. And she will enfold us back into her arms with compassion but without mercy, recycling every atom as she does with all and everything else.

We were innocent and we never stood a chance. But we must live every day of our exile from Life for what else is there to do? We made our own hell and now those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear must live in it - and live like there's no tomorrow - until the day we die into sweet release.