Modern Life is Rubbish

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” ~ Howard Zinn.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Are we so important?

The first question: if Mother Nature is a dead "thing", and her resources are for humans to freely conquer and exploit, how could she give and support life to all the inhabitants that lived in her home? We could then deduce that Mother Nature is, in fact, a living 'being'.

Now why do humans believe in the simplistic view that carbon dioxide will 'cause' the world to warm up and thereby 'cause' the changes in the climate we are currently witnessing now? No, even this does not have the power to unleash so much destruction in so many places at once. That is just an anthropomorphic world view that everything in life revolves around us humans.

Let's take another approach. Say, those in power had rape the Earth of all her resources that sustain life on this planet and bleed her dry? So they cook up this 'global warming' scenario and we believe in the lies. By believing in this lie, we failed to do the right thing and thereby will cause life to come to an end for all, including Mother Nature herself.

Second question: if Mother Nature is a living being, will she let herself 'die', killed by her 'tenants', so to speak? We can deduce again that no living beings will let another killed them without any defense. The laws of nature works in mysterious ways (for the simple reason that we only understand so little of them), and always supercede man-made laws. And now she is cleaning house and the effects could be felt by all in the form of climate changes from within and without too (we think the universe is a 'dead' thing, too!)

So, in effect, it is US that had caused the extreme and aberrant climate change that we are seeing now. Isn't it ironic? Yes, it would be convenient to say I did not do this, they did. But in the end, the truth is, like every other tenant, I am still responsible for what happens to my home.

We must ask the next question then: In the grand scheme of things, are we so important as we think we are?

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