Almost fifty years and many bumps in the road later, my understanding and beliefs about how we manage our world have changed dramatically. Teachers and other Adults from my childhood were not exaggerating or making up stories about what was happening half a century ago. While the world is not going to end, our place in the world may end along with most of the other mammals on earth.
Sharing my thoughts on why it is time for each of us to begin to bring about internal and external change is no fun either, it is serious stuff. Like you, I want to believe we will go on living forever. I want to believe all our human caused problems will work themselves out and we will learn how to respect the Earth and Each Other, and all will be okay.
I want to be a young child again; not to see how the Earth is reacting from the way we choose to use her. I do not want to be realistic and mature enough to admit we need to be responsible e if there is to be reasonable future for our future generations. Generations of people so distant we can not yet imagine. I want our future descendants generations out to live and enjoy their life.
I want the Human Race to continue. I know their future or lack of a future belongs to us. This unformed idea that we will load up into spaceships and leave earth for a new destination is a fairy tale. There is nowhere to go we can reach with even our best technology where we can live comfortably. Neither will ‘We’ load up into a space ship and blast off. Of the billions of people on earth, only a very few will have that future if it ever arrives. You and I won’t be one of the passengers. For us, we will have to contend with what we have done to ourselves when the time comes.
It has been many years since I thought we could assume Earth will save herself from our abuse. The billions of us alive are changing the earth as we know it. Body heat alone given off by billions of pounds of us humans alone at 98.6 f degrees makes a difference to the earths temperature balance.
Our over use of chemicals, heat generated by motors, and most energy forms also contributes. We currently are more than a match for any cataclysmic. Maybe we are changing the earth a little slower than extreme recorded major volcanic eruptions of the past or meteors slamming into the earth, but was are changing our Earth daily, and it is not in a way we would prefer to change her if we were paying attention.
Before you are turned off by the thought of more blah, blah, I suggest our world as we know it is not working the way you think it is. Think about any global issues that do concern you. You are not alone with your list of concerns. The problem is there are not enough people like you who care about what you care about to make a difference.
Your individual concerns only occasionally overlap concerns and fears about our future on Earth which is shared by others. Disparate groups of people they all have different concerns. Others still like things just the way they are. Their only vision is their life, and the rest is someone else’s problem.
The only real commonalty is no matter which side of the fence we sit on, we all have concerns. This is why these type of posts and promoting change are so important. If we do not change our thinking and our way of living in isolation from the Earth, our Earth will continue to erode, becoming worse each year.
