Drone

A few days ago a drone crashed in a nature reserve in Huntington Beach, California, scaring away the parent birds of as many as 2000 elegant tern eggs. It was the largest abandonment of eggs scientists can recall. The mass abandonment was not just down to the drone crash however but to increased traffic to the site by way of dog-walkers and cyclists who invariably disturb the sensitive area that an ecological reserve is. Both cyclists and dogs (who are banned from the reserve) are seen as predators by the birds and will consequently abandon a site if a threat is felt. Dogs (not cyclists) that are all too often kept off their leash also flush ground-nesting birds from their nests which causes them to leave and never return. All this anthropocentred ecology (which of course is the retarded version of ecology) raises an important question: who is the reserve for? Who is the forest for? Who is this island for? Who is this mountainside for? It's a question that rings around the world in sensitive areas designed to harbour and protect wildlife, or indeed in areas where wildlife live and range. Is it for pleasure-seekers seeking the next adrenalin rush? Is it for ecologically-illiterate people who are so confused at a fundamental level of being that they now have a wheen of threatening accessories attached to them wherever they go. Is it for cars? Is it for noise? Is it for the general distrurbance and ignorance that crowds of self-absorbed people bring with them? I should think not. The reserve is not a reserve for retardation or pleasure but for ecology and the opposite of retardation: genius, and the animal's ability to generete itself in peace without the interference and menace of man and his toys. The reserve as the name suggests is a place that is 'kept back' from man's usual industry and filth, and menace. It is a place that is supposed to be pristine and dedicated above all to the wild and the naturally-abiding. By allowing dogs and other disturbances into the fray and not dealing with them accordingly, for the sake of pleasing people, the wild (and peace) is relegated to the state of the dominated (and noise). Priorities change for the worse. The cathedral becomes a creche. And our children grow up in a sacreligious environment thinking man (and their own selves by extension) to be at the front of the queue for everything.