Our Planet – Facts, Positives & Other Views As the caretakers of tomorrow’s world, it is a time for creating a sustainable future, by acting with wisdom today. FACTS: According to the new updated version of The Gaia Atlas of Planet Management, it has been a decade of records – of successes as well as disasters. The highest world temperatures ever measured on global warming. Levels of ozone in the upper atmosphere fell to record lows. Famine and drought have struck many regions of the developing world. Our wanton destruction of species and habitats has escalated to record highs – from tropical forest decimation to African elephants killed for their ivory. The worst news is that the twin pressures of human numbers and over consumption of the Earth’s resources are still increasing. Our numbers are now predicted to rise not to 8 billion, but to 11 billion by 2050. The gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’, between the resource-intensive North and low-income South, is still increasing. Damage to the land, pollution, and destruction of species and habitats are proving intractable under this relentless pressure. But many nations are now making major efforts to conserve forests and land, improve human health and access to birth control, and conserve and recycle resources. Our economic troubles have led to world recession, poverty, debt, and hunger all of which are affecting more people than ever before. But these very problems are sparking new economic, educational, environmental and political approaches. POSITIVES The environment movement has grown worldwide, with individuals and governments recognizing the concept of sustainability. Seeing the vision of Gaia as a living planet, many are awakening with a new level of respect and love for our earthly home. There has been an enormous rise in activity and concern by individual citizens, as consumers, as voters, as campaigners, as caretakers of the Earth. New political parties are being formed with a focus on unity and sustainability. We are making huge improvements in using energy more efficiently, and the family of nations have got together to ban CFCs in an unparalleled show of global co-operation. Unprecedented relief efforts have been accompanied by the raising of world consciousness as to the underlying causes of hunger. In many countries individuals are now pioneering the radical (to Western culture) idea of living on light, and being sustained by prana, which has global ramifications as a viable solution to world hunger. Global efforts to provide clean drinking water for all have helped hundreds of millions of people in the developing world. We have made a landmark agreement to conserve the pristine environment of Antarctica from exploitation, and negotiated international treaties to begin to conserve bio-diversity. The best news has been the end of the Cold War, sudden and inspiring, and the rise of global concerns for democracy, internationalism, and peace. Global military expenditure reached a record high of $1,000 billion a year, but the peak is passed and we now live in a world less fearful of nuclear conflict, and with a record number of countries enjoying liberal democracies. This show of unity was demonstrated against the French nuclear testing in the Pacific, more recent peaceful demonstrations in China, the Kosovo aid given – all these changes have shown that a startling revolution in human perception is possible and unfolding currently! Hence it appears that we have a great need for continued re-education on the planet so that resources can be shared more equitably. Chaos upon our planet is not from a lack of goods or services or even the equal distribution of such. Chaos among humanity comes from a lack of common purpose to unite the diversity of all cultures and societies prevalent today. The chaos we witness on a planetary level comes simply from the: Lack of honor and tolerance among races and cultures Lack of clarity on personal and global levels Lack of vision that we are one people sharing one planet Lack of purpose and drive in our personal existence Lack of awareness of why we are truly here and what we can achieve as a species, and Lack of knowledge of the higher nature of our being and of universal laws, which govern the forces of creation. One cannot create permanent global change for the good of the whole until one looks dispassionately and logically at the individual as a whole. Beings in wholeness are the forerunners in a changing global power. As Aldous Huxley the English Author once said: “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:42:39 +0000
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