Climate Change, Can We Change?

Like a ship lost at sea the Human Race has run into a big problem. It becomes increasingly clear that somewhere,somehow we took a wrong turn.That the path along which we have bring travelling for so long has turned into a culdesac. Can we turn back from a way of life that is so clearly completely disharmonious and destructive? Is it possible and how much time do we have to change our ways?

Climate Change is an expression I do not like. It is to tidy. What this expression covers, is the fact the one species of life upon this planet is actually very close to destroying all. Yes us, Human Beings. The Crown of creation. How did this happen? Overnight while we slept? Because we voted in the wrong politicians? No, we have been traveling this road for a very long time and now here we are in this situation.

It seems clear that there is only one species of life on this planet that is completely out of harmony with creation, but have we actually even now, understood that fact? We really need leadership, inspired leadership right now. I,m sorry but sorting the rubbish and buying a smaller car will not be enough. We have to change radically our way of life and our expectations. Do you know that the way of life we have come to expect in the west is actually impossible for all of mankind? That there are simply insuffiecent resources on this planet for all to share this way of life we consider normal in the developed world?

We humans seem to have a uniqueness in that we do not take only that which we need, but that which we want. It is a distinction that sets us apart from all the life forms with whom we share this planet? Our entire thrust and development throughout the ages has generally been from a standpoint of greed and selfishness. Our huge desire to improve and move forward has been fundamentaly flawed from the very beginning. We assumed, so long ago that it did not matter how we lived. That the world was a huge thing capable of absorbing whatever mess we created in our trail.

Most of us were brought up to believe that the important thing in life was to get ahead, get a good career, buy a fine house, maybe go to church on Sunday, or not, It never actually occurred to us that we were part of an incredibly delicate, inter- dependable and actually, finely balanced eco system, that we were actually part of and not masters of an amazing system of biodiversity.

Somehow and at sometime it seems we lost something. Lost a quality, a sixth sense if you like that so many life forms with whom we share the planet still have and clearly we are much the poorer for this loss. It is as though we have detached ourselves from the rest of creation and nature and believe its only function and use is to enable us to develop the world to our wishes. Have we learnt enough to reverse our current direction? Have we become humbled sufficiently to change our ways, I mean really change our ways? Are we capable of retracing our steps and changing our values? Are we ready to appreciate, I mean really appreciate the beauty of this world in its entirety and begin to understand the inter connectivity and inter dependence of all life on this planet? No clearly we have not individually changed that much at all and in reality these changes, if they are to happen will take generations to come about. Do we have that time?

So we must rely upon our political leaders the chiefs of industry and scientists to fix the problem, but wait a minute, are these not the very people instrumental in leading us down a path of unsustainable lifestyle and unsustainable growth?

There is a theory that the earth is itself a sentient being and that it will ultimately protect itself and strive to maintain a balance, could this be true? Have you noticed that the weather has changed? It is almost as an effort to dissipate the pollution and poison we are pumping out, spread it, weaken its effect. If this theory or belief is true, we are in serious trouble, because quite clearly it is only one species on this planet that is destroying the balance and living disharmoniously, so following through this concept the solution is very clear, no?

Why have we evolved in such a reckless and careless fashion? It is as a species we have evolved in an incomplete way. Whilst intellectually and technologically we have advanced so rapidly, it seems that our spiritual & awareness capabilities are still somewhere back in the Stone Age.

Would an enlightened advanced species merrily cut through the very branch of the tree they sit on? What kind of definition of intelligence is this and yet in reality is this not the human condition? Has this not been what in fact the human race has been doing for countless generations?

I personally believe that there is a solution, that a balance will be restored and that this creation is to magnificent to be destroyed. If the planet does have some kind of consciousness and will do all neccessary to protect itself, where does that leave mankind? From that perspective we become the parasite no.....