Whilst watching the scenes unroll this morning on TV, I have to say that the amount of sorrow and empathy around this house for the survivors, the conditions, the lives lost is significant. Perhaps this blog entry is a catalyst for us of sorts. For the amount of time humans have co-existed on this earth, we have had natural and man-made disasters strike us. Our mother of the earth may be said to be in pain and suffering as we do the technology and science things we do. Its like we have this fine view of a place we want to get to; but the path is overgrown with environmental, cultural, and ecological disasters. But hey! We are the US. Ever since we settled the new world, we have looked at ourselves as Lords of all we survey. Consider those folks that were here thousands of years earlier. Is it merely the truth that they lived in some close relationship with the earth or did they merely understand its patterns. Archeological sites are living reminders that prehistoric cultures were not appreciative of their trash. They merely dumped it here and there so others could conveniently find it down life’s road.
We seem to want our section of the planet to yield its riches here but we do not see the price for the folly. Things are not just given without a pricetag. If you want to play; you got to pay. In rocket science, nuclear energy, and global environmentalism, that is so true. Europe says we have brought a lot of this on ourselves by carefully ignoring global warming. We just don’t get it and we won’t get it. Its like the other things we do. Did we ever understand the truth in Iraq? I doubt it. We had this road we wanted to travel. The road was paved with intentions; perhaps some honorable and some not so. Now we are stuck with the results of both sets of intentions. Human conditions can pass and become different with human intervention. The natural phenomena cannot. The price tag is horrendous when we dabble in global ecologies.
I vote we stand back and step down a bit and see that everything we do; from cutting a ancient redwood down to draining a swamp where flora and fauna live have global repercussions. They are all connected and part of things and we seem to miss that responsibility part of things in our zeal to ascend.
When all is a smoking hulk, what is there left to ascend to? We will have reversed those careful plans by ignoring the sames rules that others preserve. But for those others, we are all connected and even with their concern and empathy with our mother earth, we will cause the suffering they wish to miss.
Because in the end its all connected and we are and they are.
Consider it.
