It is becoming devastatingly more apparent to me that
towards the end of the next decade we are going to see a level of Environmental
destruction unprecedented to the standards of today. Those observant and sensitive to the Earth
see now that we are in the middle of this disaster. Ecosystems are beginning to fail all around
us. Ice on the poles are significantly
diminishing, the majority of all the Earth’s coral reefs have bleached and
become relatively lifeless. We have littered
plastics everywhere that have broken down to microscopic levels. Micro plastics, are just what the name
implies, small nearly microscopic pieces of plastic, have been found in the
deepest ocean trench 30,000 ft below the surface, the highest mountains on
Earth, and in the entire food chain. Globally
deserts are spreading, farm soil is eroding, and fresh water is becoming sparser
on land. It is becoming more apparent
that these issues have reached such a
level that we should be acting with incredible urgency, but many of us feel so
helpless, many of us don’t care, and others keep themselves conveniently distracted
(Maybe all of us feel all of these feelings at the same time, in varying
degrees).
What do you believe? Are we destitute? Or do we rise up and create a harmonious
society on Earth? And if we did create
harmony on Earth will we flourish as a large population or a small one? Ultimately, I believe the jury is still out on
that because we have free will. But
inaction is an action that will ultimately lead us down the worst case scenario.
There are 7 billion of us.
130 million new souls are born on earth each year. The immensity of this realizing is daunting. But this realization can also be
liberating. The dichotomy of life is
that we are both unique individuals and one with all. This is the ultimately dichotomy. And when one realizes this they can become
liberated from their “sin”: the sense of
being without, depressed, unsatisfied. There is a liberating irony in realizing your complete
insignificance, but then also realizing at the same time that you are somehow
still miraculously unique. Imagine being
1 in 7 billion. Because that is what you
are. You are that incredibly
unique. No one else on this planet is
having the experience you are having.
Let us not get lost one end of that spectrum. Let’s not wallow in fatalistic depression, or
cling tight to our individuality that we lose sight of the ultimate truth. That we are both these things, one with all
and the separate individual, we are both the experience of being with and being
without. And in this we realize were
both love and fear are born. Here we are,
all together, existing on this living sphere in the emptiness of space and the
universe, surviving, experiencing, and communicating.
I feel that in regard to humanities survival, the best cast scenario
will depend on us choosing love over fear in all aspects of life. We have to
not be afraid and fight our oppression, our apathy, our unconsciousness both individually
and collectively. The fight starts
within, with ones ego. Knowing this brings
us half way there. But we need to fight
the apathy within ourselves that keeps our minds away from the reality that we
are, as a species, slowly killing ourselves.
Thing is, we won’t ultimately “get there” into we all do as
a society. The Truth is, we have the
ability to create a society where everyone prospers. But we need to be wise to envision this. My gut
tells me we will get to this place, but I am unsure of whether or not it will
be in time. As a general rule, if
you think you see the future and you do not like it, why not try to try and
change it? I do feel humanity will exists
on Earth, but I think the jury is still out on whether we not we flourish as a large
population or a small one in the next century.
