Nowhere to Run: Part One
I am neither scientist nor soothsayer but a midlife person with 41 years on planet Earth and enough humble intuition to understand that humanity is botching up our planet beyond our survival. This open letter is to all who may please act today upon this question: "What can I do to protect Earth and all its beings and resources?"
There are countless books, articles, and professionals with far greater knowledge and credentials alerting us about global warming and melting polar ice caps with rising sea levels and changing weather patterns (for starters, check out - The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert; or, it's Summary; however, humanity shrugs and we may empathize with this apathy. No matter where we live, if we're lucky, we toil and tend to our basic needs (food, clothing, and shelter for ourselves and perhaps those we love) and this is already a full day. For those who don't have these necessities then to expect anything else is cruel.
Before you think it's time to give up on this life: Never! I am striving to be an eternal optimist and we must never forget to look beyond ourselves in this life and beyond (for anyone who believes in an afterlife)! To those who believe that this life and everything in it is all we have (with light-speed space travel a giddy fantasy) then I would challenge all humanity to develop a global philosophy that emphasizes a universe beyond ourselves to allow all its mysteries to unfold since any future advances won't matter if our planet is unsustainable.
Within all our modern days is a growing turmoil that we don't want to acknowledge and any future generations will wonder: How did they let the destruction get this far? Today, we love pleasure without protection, as this has always been human nature, yet (such irony), we don't even need each other to make babies, anymore!
I believe the greatest threat to humanity, and by consequence, all living beings and resources, is that people have become separate from nature, which will continue with or without us.
There are countless books, articles, and professionals with far greater knowledge and credentials alerting us about global warming and melting polar ice caps with rising sea levels and changing weather patterns (for starters, check out - The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert; or, it's Summary; however, humanity shrugs and we may empathize with this apathy. No matter where we live, if we're lucky, we toil and tend to our basic needs (food, clothing, and shelter for ourselves and perhaps those we love) and this is already a full day. For those who don't have these necessities then to expect anything else is cruel.
Before you think it's time to give up on this life: Never! I am striving to be an eternal optimist and we must never forget to look beyond ourselves in this life and beyond (for anyone who believes in an afterlife)! To those who believe that this life and everything in it is all we have (with light-speed space travel a giddy fantasy) then I would challenge all humanity to develop a global philosophy that emphasizes a universe beyond ourselves to allow all its mysteries to unfold since any future advances won't matter if our planet is unsustainable.
Within all our modern days is a growing turmoil that we don't want to acknowledge and any future generations will wonder: How did they let the destruction get this far? Today, we love pleasure without protection, as this has always been human nature, yet (such irony), we don't even need each other to make babies, anymore!
I believe the greatest threat to humanity, and by consequence, all living beings and resources, is that people have become separate from nature, which will continue with or without us.
