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Hard Times
12/10/20 20:34We are in a time of huge changes and hardships to be faced. Even here in the UK with our privilege and our sanctuary from so much, we have felt these changes. Our harvests were poor this year. We have faced floods and droughts in the same locations within six months. A global pandemic has confined us to our homes and changed the way we live. Intolerance is everywhere, our views polarised in a way that I have never before seen, all because we have been greedy and not protected the planet that supports us. So much damage has already been done as we have thoughtlessly (literally WITHOUT thought) run roughshod over our resources and the diversity of the plant and animal kingdoms.
Humans are the most perfect example of idiocy and brilliance. We can solve the most complex problems, but we cannot recognise these problems even though they are sitting on our doorsteps, even now.
We have to learn lessons fast. We have to listen to the planet and to each other. We have to take NOTHING for granted. We are capable of amazing things, the least of which should be adapting to a less animal-based diet, protecting what wilderness we have and re-wilding that which we have ruined in our quest for palm oil or coffee or beef or cod or oil or animal heads or unscientific 'medicines'. The list is immense and we have no one to blame but ourselves -now we need guidance and encouragement to learn to live less destructively, to strive for a better world, not a better tan or car or bank balance. This goes for how we treat each other too - it's only going to get worse unless we take a higher path, make better choices that benefit humanity
It seems like a daunting task. It is! But we can learn together and learn to love and share and progress. Good thoughts. Good words. Good deeds. It's borrowed from a religious dogma, but the sentiment is correct.
It's hard when you feel like you are the only one struggling to fulfil these challenges but it is better to be one person trying than being one person who knew what to do and still chose not to act.
The weather has changed... is changing. It may not be for the better but it is still beautiful and with luck we can reverse the changes and remember the beauty.
Humans are the most perfect example of idiocy and brilliance. We can solve the most complex problems, but we cannot recognise these problems even though they are sitting on our doorsteps, even now.
We have to learn lessons fast. We have to listen to the planet and to each other. We have to take NOTHING for granted. We are capable of amazing things, the least of which should be adapting to a less animal-based diet, protecting what wilderness we have and re-wilding that which we have ruined in our quest for palm oil or coffee or beef or cod or oil or animal heads or unscientific 'medicines'. The list is immense and we have no one to blame but ourselves -now we need guidance and encouragement to learn to live less destructively, to strive for a better world, not a better tan or car or bank balance. This goes for how we treat each other too - it's only going to get worse unless we take a higher path, make better choices that benefit humanity
It seems like a daunting task. It is! But we can learn together and learn to love and share and progress. Good thoughts. Good words. Good deeds. It's borrowed from a religious dogma, but the sentiment is correct.
It's hard when you feel like you are the only one struggling to fulfil these challenges but it is better to be one person trying than being one person who knew what to do and still chose not to act.
The weather has changed... is changing. It may not be for the better but it is still beautiful and with luck we can reverse the changes and remember the beauty.
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