It has to be now. Tomorrow may be too late, What we need to do.
Assuming a re-charge, a growth, an increase in our caring levels what are the things that are most important, that need our immediate attention. There is so much that needs our immediate attention that prioritising is not as easy as it sounds but I will do my best as I perceive it:
Global Warming
Global warming unaddressed will wreck 4,500 million years of balance. It is wreaking havoc with the worlds natural systems. Planet Earth cannot deal with the speed of the changes being created by a warming planet at the rate it is happening. It is creating a global disaster of epic proportions.
1) We have to stop burning fossil fuels – now.
We have to use our ‘super’ brains, our technology to help rather than hinder. Al Gores excellent book on these issues covers the ground in detail (points the way forward). All that is missing is Political Will. (Nobody appears prepared to give up the vast profits from oil.)
2) We have to stop polluting at all levels.
Man pollutes the air and water via his factories, power stations and transport systems and the natural world with pesticides and chemicals designed to maximise crop production. His waste (filth) is everywhere.
It is the sheer volume of these abuses that is the problem. Greed is always at the heart of the problem. It is our obsessive desire to make money that creates the vast over production of manufactured goods and farm produce.
Should we only produce what we need to survive at every level our production output would be less than 25% or a quarter of the present quotas. My own view is that we could happily survive, without incurring hardship on 10% or one tenth of present quotas. I imagine the reduction in pollution levels if this were the case.
We should not be allowed to spew dangerous chemicals into the air and water of our planet at all. It is too damaging to the natural world which is very finely balanced. Much more restriction and control is necessary.
The damage we have already done is only partially realised and understood. So much has already been lost. The natural world will be paying the price and therefore we will be paying the price for many decades to come. We are part of the natural world through too few are brought up to understand this. By hurting nature, we hurt ourselves.
3) We must stop littering and dumping.
It is so disrespectful and harmful. Respect is the essential element for civilised and harmonious existence at all levels. A lack of respect depresses the spirit of humans, the other animals, the plants and the planet. As all are conscious, all are sensitive to respect or its lack. We tend to treat our homes with much respect, a place of security, safety, cleanliness and pride. We must learn to treat our planet as our homes. It is our home. Dumping of dangerous waste should never be allowed. We must neutralise what the planet cannot naturally neutralise, at our own expense, or do without. We have endless red tape to protect ourselves. We need to treat the planet in the same way.
Nuclear power should never be used. It should be outlawed. We have not got the technology, the wisdom or the understanding to deal with its deadly waste or to any accident occurring from its production. To dump it into the planet is obscene.
4) We must stop killing the wild animals (Including the fish and other marine life).
We have laws to protect ourselves. The animals are no less than us. They have the same right to be here and are one of the most beautiful realisations of the Creator’s mind. They need the same protection. Actually, they need much more than the same protection. They need super protection as many are in such crisis due to man’s abuses.
- We must stop destroying the worlds natural forests.
Unless we all want to live in a desert. Trees are the life-blood of the natural world. Forest destruction is a major player in global warming. CO2 release leads the way.
- We must try to stabilise and if possible reduce the world’s human population.
It is becoming too great for the planet to sustain. The rich countries need to support the poor. Population control is essential.
- We must recycle everything and throw nothing away.
The planet’s natural resources have already been over plundered. So little is left at the surface where we have been able to cost effectively steal it for our own gain and now we are going deeper. I say steal as what we take is not ours. It belongs to Mother Earth. It is part of her natural body, her energetic output and her well-being. Would we dig into our own bodies and sell our body parts for gain and still expect to maintain good health. We all know the answer. We need to treat the planet in the same way. We do not know or understand the damage we are doing. To hurt Mother Earth is to hurt ourselves. She sustains us – hence the term ‘Mother’. Treat Mother Earth as your own mother – with respect and love.
Mining, drilling and any other resource deprivation is a multi-million-pound industry. It makes a relatively few humans obscenely rich. It is not our need but our greed that drives us. We do not understand the consequences of our actions on the planets well-being. If we re-cycled everything particularly the metals our need to mine would be heavily reduced.
- We must change our obsession with possessions.
The world has become obsessed by acquisition and the status we imagine it brings. We want people to admire and respect us. We are brainwashed by the media to acquire possessions and believe it gives us status and then change them for a better, more advanced model every five minutes or so it seems. What should be built to last years is deliberately produced with a short shelf life so you’ll have to spend again. This is madness – Corporate world, the acquisition of vast wealth, again for a relative few. The many pay the price. As has been previously covered the natural world pays the price for man’s greed, his manufacturing output. We should only produce what we need to survive. This is balance.
P.S.
We all like nice things around us. It helps to make us happy but does two nice things make you twice as happy and three, three times so. No! Like drugs, the first good fix can blow us away but it is a one-off. We never find it again and often spend a lifetime of body harming research looking.
Money is the same. It is nice to have enough. It takes the stress out of life but does it truly make you happy. Isn’t it the loving souls around you that do that? (It is not what you’ve got, it’s who you’re with). Many older people, looking back, talk of their happiest times being when they were young, in love and without a bean, but incredibly happy. Point proved.
P.P.S
Many people spend a lifetime acquiring wealth. Often power is what they need as much or more than the status. They need power because they are insecure (frightened) souls who imagine power over others makes them important. The more frightened they are the more power they need. Like money, power never scratches the itch which is why so many go to the end of their lives trying to acquire more. They are never happy souls. To be truly happy you only need one thing in your heart, mind and life – unconditional love. Possessions and power have no importance there. (When you are truly loving you lose fear.)
Conclusion to the Introduction.
I must now sincerely apologise for throwing so much at you in such a short space of words. Your brain must be throbbing if you are still here with me which I sincerely hope you are. Some of it probably makes complete sense, some of it may appear to be the ramblings of madness or a diet for fairy tales. Unfortunately, I have no choice – the need is so great, the time so short I have had to hit you hard. I believe every word I have written. There is no agenda (hidden motive) here. I gain nothing from these teachings other than the potential joy it would give my spirit (soul) if it could make a difference.
I am in love with my planet. The air, water, wild-life, plants and stars. Their natural beauty almost takes my breath away. I glory in the mind of my maker and only want to try and help his mind-set sustain (endure). If I could do that it would be like winning the European lottery every week for a year. (Enough said.)
I am not a God, I am an ordinary human being with all the strengths and weaknesses that entails. I am me, I am you (ultimately, we are one). The only thing I am really sure about is I am loving (possibly a little more than some).
I am me, I am you; I want to talk to you about you.