I am Earthworm Hear Me Roar.

Why do humans have such a proclivity to fuck with nature? They're either chopping down and burning swathes of rain forest or they are trying to save the giant panda from a devastating lack of libido, coordination and sperm-count.

Both activities are equally arrogant.

Humans have this notion that they are in someway a superior being to the trees they burn and the pandas they save. Well, ok, the pandas do lose. Let's say, better than the trees they burn and the earthworms they grow in their compost heaps to help grow trees that they'll sooner or later cut down.

The thing is, life on earth all evolved from the same epoch. While there may have been multiple outbursts of life in the goo back then it is highly unlikely that more than one survived and even if some did, in the billions-of-years scheme of things the events are effectively simultaneous.

What this means is that the humans and the earthworms (and the pandas) are all evolved to the same degree. The main difference is that the earthworms avoided feature-creep. They are the iPods of the animal kingdom: sufficiently functional with no additional fluff.

There is no superiority here. Some people would kill to have managers who are earthworms.

Earthworms function entirely without superfluous crap: no limbs, no heart, lungs, brain, eyes. They have only four organs: skin, oesophagus thingy, stomach thingy, intestine thingy. Done.
Nothing more, nothing less.

Well, I suppose there must be sex thingies in there somewhere as well otherwise they'd go the way of the panda.

Stupid pandas.