You may have wondered how I come up with a topic for my column each week. I do too. But the answer is quite simple. Quite often something right out of Wild Kingdom plays out in front of me and all I have to do is write about it. But, when no blatantly avian activity rears its head, I create a nature-related topic.

In the realm of created topics, I include my response to various environmental challenges. One has only to watch the news on TV or read a magazine to get a nasty whiff of environmental calamities happening around the world, so there is a wealth of subject matter to be found.

But for me it's not good enough to simply spew bad news. I like to add a little something extra. For example, this week adult Polar Bears were reported to be eating younger Polar Bears in numbers never before seen.

These acts of cannibalism are thought to be happening because ice, which usually covers northern bodies of water at this time of year, is not forming. And bears that depend on the ice can not move away from shore to hunt traditional prey.

Whenever the issue of global warming is raised there are those who say global warming exists, and there are those who say global warming does not exist. I'm among those who say it does. Not because I have evidence that is any more convincing then evidence that is already out there. It is just my wish that humans do the right thing and err on the side of caution before we go the way of the Easter Island folks. And if I suspect I am contributing to global warming through my activities, then I must take steps to alter my behaviour.

But altering my behaviour is the stumbling block. Do I have the brains to change my habits? I don't mean do I have enough brains, the intelligence to do the right thing? But do I have the brain model to do the job? I think not.

Call it a side effect of the evolutionary process or just the random nature of the growth of an organism, but I think the human brain has evolved away from reality. Whereas I see the universe existing in a medium of consciousness at all times, I see modern humans as existing in a thought generated reality that is nowhere near our own consciousness. We are in effect alienated from reality by the over-development of our ability to 'think' an alternate reality into existence. Thus alienated, when we attempt to minister to a global problem, we find it like trying to send first responders to a location for which we have no address. We have lost the address of our consciousness and thus we are lost.

And with that statement, I've written another weekly column and now all I have to do is sit back and wait for the great thinkers of the world to take shots at my theory.