Since the beginning of time, man has been at war with his surroundings. The industrial revolution served only to heighten the war, sending it in overdrive. Certainly, for many years prior, man exploited and abused the land and its creatures, but after the industrial revolution streamlined the process, things got exponentially worse. The desperate need for fuel to keep up with our factories, factory farms, insatiable need for stuff, and the growth of the automobile industry has led to unprecedented exploitation and abuse of nature's bountiful reserves. Among those taking advantage of nature's passive role in the evolution of the earth, there is little concern for sustainability beyond tomorrow and no concern for nature as the mother of all living beings. Study after study shows us how unsustainable our current lifestyles are, but nothing gets done. Politically, the cause is stuck in quicksand and it will be remedied no time in the near future. We have forgotten the land from where we came. However, those with a spiritual connection to the earth will tell us, nature will not be taken advantage of to its death. No, eventually, nature fights back. Eventually, nature takes revenge.