We continue to pretend that the Earth is not a conscious force; that it is not creating the events of our lives -- from a baby's first breath to the melting of the Himalayas...   This is the reason that we are oblivious to the danger we are in. We can't image that the Earth is alive. We experience the natural world through the prism of our toxic dust and YouTube clips of lions devouring leopards. The average city dweller with a computer experiences 10,000 ads per day.  Yes, there is the occasional super storm that pokes through our bubble, but the storms and floods aren’t thought of as coming "from an Earth". They are "natural disasters" -- mysterious uprisings of the elements, with no source at all.  We wander on, as the ads circle us... and the Extinction accelerates.