What Dr. Seuss thought about global warming

Today I took my younger son to see an adorable movie "Horton hears a Who!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Hears_a_Who!

My son loved the movie because the characters looked hilarious, and there were no jokes incomprehensible for kids, which are plentiful in most Hollywood cartoons. It was truly a little kids movie. I loved the movie too, for that reason, and for the whole other, grown-up reason.

At one point or another, all of us wonder what our life is, what meaning it has and where it is going. Some people believe in G-d and some do not, but most of us try to convince ourselves that there is some purpose to our existence. We want to believe that even if theory of evolution is true, we did not appear on Earth by mere chance. And even if "big bang" theory is true, Earth is not just another rock in the Universe that will be destroyed one day by a collision with a giant asteroid, or burned to ashes when Sun starts to die. I question both theories, and I get a lot of grief from my more enlightened friends for questioning them. But now it seems that I found an unexpected supporter in Dr. Seuss.

Recently the theory of global warming has erupted out of nowhere. The theory confidently suggests that human activity put us into the path of our own destruction. I say: how arrogant can we possibly be to think that we can destroy life that we neither created nor ever really understood? Our planet is nothing but a speck of dust in a dangerous vastness of the Universe. It could've been destroyed a million times by an asteroid or a comet. It could've been burned to ashes by a close-by (in cosmic proportions) supernova explosion. It could've been pulled into a large black hole and we all would've been turned into a big spaghetti. Yet, mysteriously, none of this happened. On the contrary, our Earth was given an atmosphere that protects us from anything dangerous that might come our way, all asteroids and comets were "rerouted" away from our orbit, and the conditions on Earth were just right for living organisms to be born and strive.

Could all of this possibly be a mere chance? I do not think so. It's more probable that Horton the elephant has taken a duty to protect from cosmic dangers the speck of dust that our planet is with all its self-important little Whos that we are. Or something like that. Ok, I concede that it may not be Horton the elephant. It may be some other power that some of us like to call G-d, some like to call destiny, and others don't like to think about at all, knowing, quite rightly, that we have just as much chance of understanding this power as little Whos had a chance to understand the subtleties of life in Jungle of Nool.

Just as little Whos did in this famous kids book, we are desperately trying to make ourselves heard. Some of us pray. Some meditate. Some play musical instruments. Some tattoo weird expressions on their bodies. And some come up with bogus theories. I happen to think it's all in vain - we are not being heard. The magical superpower is not interfering in the affairs of men, just like Horton did not interfere in the lives of Whos. This power is not there to fulfill our wishes or make us happy. Its only duty is to protect the tiny planet from dangers that come our way (including the dangers that we ourselves create). That's why I stay optimistic. I say that we are not going to be hit by a giant asteroid and die out like dinosaurs. And I don't think we will bring ourselves to destruction by driving humongous SUVs. Our little speck of dust we call home is safely protected. Just like Dr. Seuss thought it should be.