We can't seem to step anywhere without having a negative impact on the surrounding environment. The technologies that save us time and labor also pollute our water and air. Our main form of transportation, the automobile, kills thousands of people every year. There's a big hole in the atmosphere, we are told. Our garbage ends up in bigger and bigger piles of landfill.
Weeds grow in our garden.
Crabgrass grows in our lawn. There is disorder at work in our bodies. The old antibiotics don't work quite as well as they once did. The bacteria are getting toughe and smarter. Old diseases that we once thought were wiped out are reappearning in more sinister forms.