The Earth has a fever!

I read an interesting account in a book about detoxifying the body called "Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body's Natural Ability to Heal Itself"- by Alejandro Junger, M.D.  One of the most interesting parts of the book to me was an analogy about the Earth as an organism compared to the human body.  Basically, from this analogy we can diagnose from symptoms such as global warming (the fever that does not necessarily point to one specific cause) that our planet may have a terminal illness similar to cancer.

"Cancer cells are also cells that forgot how to do their chemistry.  But cancer cells forgot how to do their math as well, and their geography and their grammar, and even how to behave within a community. When you look at cancer cells under a microscope, you see cells that kill each other and every other cell in the neighborhood; they grow and reproduce unusually fast, disregarding the natural laws of space, population density, and food availability. They also have a tendency to travel to distant places and conquer new territories.  When that happens, its called metastasis, and it means the cancer has spread.  Cancer cells eat different foods than healthy cells.  The waste products they eliminate into the circulatory system are often toxic chemicals that affect the whole organism that hosts them.  Cancer cells, like most cells, are microscopic, but size doesn't matter.  Such a small organism can initiate an inner revolution that can kill the strongest of men and women.......  One type of cell on the planet, the human cell, is behaving erratically, killing its own kind and every other type of cell."

This analogy illustrates a great point about the cause and effects of the global planetary conditions.  But I would like to further this point by saying one thing that seems to separate the Earth from the human organism when observing its behavior over the millions of years of its existence.  The Earth does not seem to have lost its capabilities to remove, restore and rejuvenate itself to the degree that the human organism has.  When observing the extremely advanced species that have been wiped off the face of the earth since its birth, we may want to seriously consider this point.  Dinosaurs that grew into extremely massive bodies with intrinsic capabilities to fly and breathe fire, feats the human species has yet to achieve, have vanished from the Earth after inhabiting the organism for hundreds of millions of years. 

When I observe the conditions that threaten the survival of the human species under dramatic changes in atmospheric pressure today, its seems the Earth's immune system is actively at work once again.   And if you want to draw another analogy...the Sun that provides key survival elements could quite possibly be the Earth's attending physician.  Today, we can observe with greater understanding the activities of our life-protecting star.  And although we understand it has a finite amount of resources at its disposal, we know they will not be depleted for at least another 100 million years.  But we can also see that it has begun to provide the Earth, and other patients it serves in its galaxy of protection with more intense flares of treatment therapy.

The question is...will the human species position itself as one of those that will continue to survive the heavy dosage of "chemotherapy" causing the Earth's core to heat up and send waves of energy throughout its tissues, veins and arteries to suppress dis-ease conditions?  Some species of life that were here before the dinosaurs and continue to survive today have positioned themselves as part of the "clothing" that the Earth enjoys.  Many living species contribute to the protective layers of atmosphere that even the human species enjoys.  It doesn't seem that these feverish conditions negatively affect their survival as much as it does the human.

Being somehow connected to the consciousness within this human cell, I would like to think that the human species with all its intelligence will indeed reposition itself.  The human species seems to be presented with a golden opportunity to cease being a contributor to threatening illness here on Earth and emerge as one of its vital accessories.   But will the global consciousness of the cell recognize this opportunity in time?