Fooling Mother Nature

Found this image from a Google search on "Mother Nature".
It was on a blog site (Nifty Atheist).
Don't know who owns it so don't know who to credit.

Back in the 1960s I think, there was an ad for a margarine that supposedly tasted so buttery, it fooled Mother Nature. But she wasn't pleased and there were thunderbolts and lightening behind the announcer's voice that said, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" as a regal Mother Nature looked annoyed.

Man's thoughtless endeavors far beyond buttery spreads have been fooling (with) Mother Nature for a long time, and we are just beginning to understand that it goes beyond not being nice. We seem to have reigned down all manner of horrible problems by being ignorant of, or ignoring, the delicate interrelationship between the natural work and our ability to live. The New York Times today has a story - The Ecology of Disease -  discussing this in length. It is worth a read, and worth taking seriously.