That's right, CLIMATE CHANGE. An Inconvenient Truth. What one of the climatologists in a recent interview with Amy Goodman*** called the "Voldemort of our time". Only we don't have a Harry Potter, or a Frodo Baggins, to fight the Dark Lord. We're all in this together, and the "Dark Lord" is the dark side of humanity that denies the almost inconceivable, that sacrifices the future of all children for greed and an insatiable lust for power, that trivializes the tragedy of the 6th Extinction into dancing Polar Bears that sell Coca Cola.
Earth scientist James Lovelock (Interesting name, if you think about it, considering the situation) originated the now highly accepted premise that the Earth is a complex, interdependent, self-regulating bio-system, a living being - "Gaia Theory".
As New York and the East Coast try to recover from the unprecedented "Frankenstorm" Sandy, it looks like GAIA cast her vote. PACHAMAMA made a political comment.
Gaia by Esther Johnson |
We're not the first unsustainable civilization, as Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond pointed out in his book Collapse, but we are (to the best of our knowledge) the first global civilization, the most environmentally lethal, and with the greatest consequences. Even in the face of massive overpopulation, and some pretty clear evolutionary indicators that women should have equal rights with the other half of the human race, Biblical patriarchs living in the 21st century, but making conclusions from books written sometime around the 2nd century, continue to insist that they shouldn't even have birth control. And although it's been 6 years former Vice President Al Gore released his definitive movie "An Inconvenient Truth", nothing much has changed. How about "Fracking", and genetically modifying the food sources ("Frankenfoods")? "Geoengineering"? HAARP and chem trails? Nuclear waste? Deforestation?..........
Are we the New Atlantis?
Can we change the story?
http://youtu.be/SAHqsmHY0cU
***Democracy Now: http://youtu.be/YPfAvgJLDyA
5 comments:
Great post. Hurricane Sandy has at least renewed the discourse on climate change. I just hope it isn't too late, that the tipping point hasn't been reached already.
Guess that's the question of the hour... the eleventh hour...
We have such amazing technology. The "magicians" of our time could be using it to preserve life, instead of destroying it...........
Great post but . . .
The winter solstice isn’t the end of the world; it’s the end of the fourth Ajaw or the Kali Yuga. This is part of the 26,000 tun cycle which represents our solar systems orbit around the center of our Milky Way. Each 5,125 tun cycle represents a shift in energy much like the 95 minute cycle in the human body. Normally the cycle shifts from feminine dominance back to masculine dominance back to feminine dominance back to . . . but on the 5th Ajaw it finds balance or equilibrium. This balance leads to harmony and the dawn of a Golden Age where spiritual matters take precedent over material matters. It’s rather interesting that Lord Krishna prophesied this coming Golden Age and said it would start 5,000 years after the start of Kali Yuga and last 10,000 years, especially when you consider the Long Now Clock being built by the Long Now people – the clock is designed to run with minimum maintenance for 10,000 years.
Have faith beautiful sister, we’re almost home free. Nice masks by the way . . .
Thanks for your comment, Wes. It is good to think that from all of this a better and more evolved humanity may emerge, one that finally learns to be in harmony with our Mother Earth. People need hope.
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