We can change

Everything’s connected…

It’s still hard for some people to realise this, like Mufasa said to Simba in The Lion King, “ we’re all connected in this great circle of life”. Being only 10 years old at the time, I didn’t truly know what he meant. What he was trying to convey is that everything relies on everything in order to survive and that we should pay everything, no matter how small, with care and respect, even though we don’t think it is worth caring for, what we as people have to learn that it is worth caring for and our very survival depends on everything working in harmony with nature.

Humanity is a really young species on this Earth, but look at what we’ve done to it in our existence, we have made entire species extinct, we have polluted the World’s ocean, we’ve sped up climate change, and that’s only the tip of the ( melting) iceberg, just look what we have done to each other, global poverty is at an all time high, so is global hunger, there is also huge waste with energy and food, there is also the economic crisis that is in the forefront, I could go on and on, but my point is that PEOPLE have to change the way they perceive things. Humanity has this notion that we are the smartest beings on this planet, yet we can do nothing to help anyone but ourselves, and we have not got the intelligence to understand that the long term risks strongly outweigh any short term benefits.

When I look at the world today, it makes me sad, because where there used to be a park there is now a block of flats and where there used to be an abundance of wildlife, there is no more and I recall the small fact that we had actual seasons and that it didn’t go from Winter to Summer on a daily basis! Nature is trying to tell us something very important, why are we still refusing to listen????

We have this notion that this planet is filled with resource that are just for us to make a quick profit, We have forgotten the fact that we rely on this little blue planet to live, we have are priorities all mixed up, when I think about the wealthiest nation, I don’t think of the US or even the UK, I believe the wealthiest nations are those where it’s people live in harmony with nature, I don’t believe that people who work in the financial sector are the smartest, I believe people such as the bur burs in Morocco are smarter, simply because they know what has true value. The planet doesn’t belong to us, we are quite simply custodians, but Western civilization doesn’t think this way, a major reason is because of Capitalism.

This notion that everything is there to make a quick buck, is deadly wrong! Capitalism is about growth and expanding, but the Earth is struggling to keep up with this insatiable demand for growth. We can’t just keep taking and be horrified when Mother Nature decides to kick our asses. Just to name one in a long list of things that we are doing to this planet that has already killed so many…. The new method of drilling which is commonly known as “Fracking”. Wake up people, it’s called fracking, anyone who used to watch Battlestar Galactica knows what the word fracking is replacing!

The mainstream media does a masterful job of connecting the dots when something goes so wrong. Just an example of the wonderful reporting by the media, In May there was over 15 deaths in Northern Italy due to a massive earthquake over 5 on the Richter scale and it produced over 50 aftershocks, and they’re so quick to blame nature but what they conveniently leave out, is that it has increased in intensity due to the fracking compounds in that area. So in essence, nature is not the villain, we are.

An ever increasing population has meant that we need to find more and more new ways to supply and meet these new demand, but does that mean that we must do things that fly in the face of common sense? The oil companies have been given permission to drill in the Arctic to find more oil to satisfy our demands, yet this was considered to be too dangerous to due to the ice, yet the ice is melting so fast that it is now possible to drill in the Arctic. But do people not realise the affect the melting ice will have on us? The ice coverage helps reflect some of the Sun’s heat back into space, but with more dark blue ocean being revealed, more of the same heat will be absorbed further heating the oceans causing marine life to die and further ice to melt. Sea levels will rise, cause extensive flooding to all coastal areas a low lying land like Holland. It’s not just our need for energy but it is the amount we waste, oil spills to name the most obvious. We have the technology to avert these ecological disasters, so what, are we simply to stupid or just plain lazy to put them in place?

Why are we so arrogant to believe that our need for energy outweighs the risks that will be offloaded onto the other creatures that inhabit this unique blue planet?