Mother Nature Knows Best

the greenie patch

by Jeneen R. Garcia

published May 14, 2006

 

 

There’s a reason people say “mother knows best”. Mothers wisely know which things are good for their children, and which are bad.

 

Mother Nature, the oldest mother of all, has had so many children that she’s definitely an expert on what’s best for us.

 

She designed plants to produce oxygen, which we need to live, and made us to exhale carbon dioxide, which plants need to grow. This way we never run out of oxygen.

 

She put an ozone layer around the Earth to protect us from the burning rays of the sun, but at the same time let in enough heat to keep us from freezing.

 

She gives us food with all the nutrients we need. Plus, her food comes in packaging that’s automatically recyclable! Fruits like bananas, coconuts, and oranges come in a protective covering that turns into a natural fertilizer for plants to grow strong. All you need to do is bury it under the earth after you’re done eating. Isn’t that neat? With vegetables, we mostly eat everything, so there’s no packaging to throw away at all!

 

Sadly, we people think we know better than Mother Nature. We’ve invented machines that produce poisonous gases--like carbon monoxide and nitrous oxides--that choke both plants and animals when they inhale. We’ve created chemicals like chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that destroy the ozone layer, making the sun’s rays dangerous.

 

We’ve also made lots of fancy packaging for food that has no nutrients, or worse, makes us sick. Do you notice how fast food and junk food usually come with a lot of plastic and styrofoam? These packaging, even when thrown in trash cans, can contaminate the soil, and harm creatures in the rivers and seas for hundreds of years. And if we try to get rid of them by burning them, they give off deadly fumes.

 

Worst of all, we use artificial fertilizers and pesticides that make Mother Nature’s fruits and vegetables cancerous instead of healthful.

 

Since today is Mother’s Day, we should tell everyone: let’s stop destroying the Earth and let Mother Nature do what she does best.