The system is incomplete if even a single element in it is missing or deficient

The system is incomplete

if even a single element in it is missing or deficient,

be it a mineral, a plant, or an animal.

An eye-opening report submitted to the U.S.

Department of Education in October, 2003 by

Irene Sanders and Judith McCabe, PhD, clearly

demonstrates what happens when we breach

nature’s balance. “In 1991, an orca—a killer

whale—was seen eating a sea otter. Orcas and

otters usually coexist peacefully. So, what happened?

Ecologists found that ocean perch and

herring were also declining. Orcas don’t eat those

fish, but seals and sea lions do. And seals and sea

lions are what orcas usually eat, and their population

had also declined. So deprived of their seals

and sea lions, orcas started turning to the playful

sea otters for dinner.

So otters have vanished because the fish,

which they never ate in the first place, have

vanished. Now, the ripple spreads, otters are no

longer there to eat sea urchins, so the sea urchin

population has exploded. But sea urchins live off

seafloor kelp forests, so they’re killing off the kelp.

Kelp has been home to fish that feed seagulls and

eagles. Like orcas, seagulls can find other food, but

bald eagles can’t and they’re in trouble.

All this began with the decline of ocean

perch and herring. Why? Well, Japanese whalers

have been killing off the variety of whales that eat

the same microscopic organisms that feed pollock

[a type of carnivorous fish]. With more fish to eat,

pollock flourish. They in turn attack the perch and

herring that were food for the seals and sea lions.

With the decline in the population of sea lions

and seals, the orcas must turn to otters.”

Michael Laitman

"Bail Yourself Out"