The Good Side of Bacteria

As part of the Blog Action Day, http://blogactionday.org/, we the bloggers are challenged to write something about the environment that we think needs to be addressed, or else to make the public aware of. So what can I write about? I can write about the shrinking ice burgs, the huge CO2 emission that constantly threatens the ozone, or about the increase in frequency of Hurricanes due to global warming. Yet, I seriously can’t see how that would benefit your life, nor mine, seeing that they are on the news CONSTANTLY and I seriously doubt that you want another reminder of what “experts” say about “life in 50 years”. So, I decided to write something on bacteria.

First of all, bacteria are the oldest forms of life, they came in as little more than primitive organisms capable only of metabolism and storage of energy from the metabolism, yet this is a great leap up in the dark depth of nowhere. However, most of the current society still have this vague concept that all bacteria are bad, I don’t know, maybe that’s the funny word doctor always says when you are sick or something, but this only illustrates how ignorant society is towards something so elegant and beautiful. So here’s some facts for you guys, the majority of bacteria are harmless, heck, some are even beneficial, do you ever wonder where your Vitamin K came from? If you say yes, you might want to go to a therapist. But now that I have mentioned it, maybe some of you are a bit curious? There’s a bacteria called E. Colli that resides in your Collin AKA Large Intestine that constantly comes up with these Vitamin K’s, so there, I’ve just proven to you that not all bacteria are harmful.

Ok, so now that we establised that bacteria can be good, we go on to how they help the environment. Well, have you ever wondered where your trash went? I don’t know, maybe on a tuesday morning and you just happen to see your neighborhood Garbage Collecting truck and you were just pondering on the great mystery of life, and suddenly it hit you that you never thought about where your can of tuna went. There’s a simple answer for that: The Landfill. So here’s where the bacteria comes into play. They perform the essential function of making the garbage go away, AKA Decomposition. Why is that so important you ask? Well, with out bacteria, all that garbage, plus corpses and other junk littered on the street, will remain there until the day God decided it was too stinky down here, bacteria is the main component of decomposition and without them we’ll be all sitting here in the midth of some prehistoric dinasaur flesh and bones and… yeah, you get the idea right? I know that I’ve probably just wasted 10 minutes out of your precious life in which you could be doing absolutely nothing instead of reading this junk, but hey, at least one more person is finally rid of the decades old humanocentric belief that the only good bacteria is a dead one, so the next time you see a toothpaste comercial advertising its antibiotic capability, you can point at it and yell out “OMG, ITS KILLING THE ENVIRONMENT” and it could well be the most memorable part of the day