The planet isn't getting any bigger, and everyday we're adding more people, products and pollution. For most of us, we'll be stuck on this floating rock our entire lives with nowhere else to go, the sole provider for basic resources like food and water.
Each morning millions of Californians enjoy warm showers without a thought about the how that water finds their faces. Most of it comes thanks to the state's intricate system of aqueducts and canals that actively divert water from reservoirs and snowy mountain tops.
If Mother Nature weren't so beautiful, you'd expect her to be chasing us with a switch and refusing to feed us by now. Well in a new campaign entitled "Nature Is Speaking," Conservation International comes close as it personifies Nature in a foul mood, one most aren't accustomed to – not much glorification and we-are-all-one talk here.