Looking At The Whole Picture

[Earth Hart]

I'm putting this piece here because I feel it's the right place for it. If you feel I should move it to another forum, well, think again, this is about us and the way we act & react to the world about us and personally, I'd rather hang out in the trees.

The Whole Picture

When I'm moving around the on-line forums of Environmental, Wildlife, Climate Change & Earth Sciences websites, I find folks analysing a particular theme, and never looking at the whole picture. How everything is connected. You may think this is strange but I often visit Stock Exchange sites, to see how global currencies are doing, checking the price of wheat & rice, oil & fertilizer, how's the Yen behaving with the $, all because I'm interested in Earth & Her environments. And I like to know what's making it all work. Or not.

Keeping my eyes & ears open to conflicts around the world. How they are being used by the adversaries on the media & political stage. In all of these conflicts there is starvation & lack of fresh water, & it's going to get worse. For a long time now, I've been saying that with Climate Change there'll be more & more conflicts over food & water.

With food prices rising dramatically around the world because of failed harvests & grain being grown for biofuel & not food, we will see the poor suffer even more than they do now, and with rainfall patterns changing, more drought & floods, making food production even harder for the poor. Now, at long last, the US Intelligence Agentcies have done a major assessment on Climate Change, and how it will effect US security. They say that action has to be taken or the security of the USA will be put under severe pressure, as nations around the globe become unstable because of conflicts & environmental disasters. It's a pity no one listerned in the '80s, when this was first put forward to the governments of the world. At the time the US government said it wasn't a problem for them. Some joke. A case of “I'm alright Jack”.

Now they're not alright and they know it, but will they get their fingers & heads out of their xexexexexexexexexe & act now, because if they don't, the rest of the world won't either. Sadly, we need the US to take the lead in really cutting back on CO2 emissions & changing their energy production & policies away from fossil fuels. As I've said before, sod the shareholders it's the common people that count, for without their buying power profits will fall.

It is up to us, the Common People, to bring about the change. Hit them were it hurts, their profits. Look at how you shop. Where does the product come, is it local, national, or does it come from half way round the world. Use energy-saving light bulbs & other white goods, sod the dish-washer, you've got hands, do it yourself or get the kids to do it. When not in use, switch off all appliances, don't leave them on stand-by. Every little thing you can do, matters. In journals before, I have mentioned Prof. Eugene Odum, & my meeting with him. Gods rest him. His quote, when being interviewed by a US PBS station journalist who asked him what was the worse case scenario with regards the environment, was...

“He Who Could Do Little, Did NOTHING.”

[mrs fish]

Very good Earth Hart

[Jez]

Buddha says 1 person with big heart can change a lot!

So, the more the merrier!

Well spoken Earth Hart

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by Earth Hart

............& react to the world about us and personally, I'd rather hang out in the trees.

... and you'll probably get a more sensible response from the trees than some folks on here .....

[ron1863]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

... and you'll probably get a more sensible response from the trees than some folks on here .....

Speak for yourself

[Earth Hart]

From what I'm seeing I think you're right. There seems little point in trying to get folks to open their eyes, they must have used superglue to seal them shut. It's a case of "If I can't see it it's not happening."

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

... and you'll probably get a more sensible response from the trees than some folks on here .....