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Perspective
April 5, 2008
It's really difficult to know what to put here week after week. It is not for lack of subject matter rather than too much subject matter. Today there was a lot of information pointing to the two worst environmental polluters and main contributors to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of earth. Would you like to guess which countries scored the highest? It was the country that promotes human rights of all kinds but seldom lives up to that promise in a wholly practical manner, America. The next is China. A look at a satellite map showing the concentration of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide emissions can be seen here:
Where Global Warming Begins. And then we have the now out in the open issue of Social Security, which we wrote of beforehand see Article Name. We have the commercial about major retailer talking of using reusable water or drink bottles and a filter system for your water to save the 200 million empty plastic water bottles that are tossed aside each day. This falls right into what we wrote beforehand see article name. It seems as this staff is a bit gifted when it comes to the foretelling of what will be. We sit and laugh knowing it's nothing more than slowing down and looking at what is real rather than what other wants us to perceive as real. In the last of the story about the major retailer our thoughts were, "Why would a MAJOR retailer promote and environmentally safe alternative to bottled water when in FACT they not only have (in plastic containers) several of their own house brands as well as several branded under an associate warehouse label. I would think, STOP selling plastic water bottles and provide only the alternative. Oh my, did I just hear someone complain that they couldn't make a payment on the Bentley?
All of our concerns, all of our issues with one another, our issues of environmentalism, racism, religion, integrity, consideration, compassion and honor have fallen by the wayside to the power of money. We pit three fundamental philosophies against each other and sit back watching as the feathers fly. We have our challenges in keeping the planet intact for the next 1000 years. I would say 3 billion years till the sun engulfs this speck completely and vaporizes it and hence it will be no more but that's really pushing it considering the current state of our world's population. We have some serious issues going on but then they've been going on in this direction for the last hundred years or so and I cannot foresee it stopping anytime soon regardless of strong public collectives or rash and revolutionary individual action. To change anything we all have to agree to be on the same page not scattered about in different clicks and sects. The efforts of individual 'charities' will never be enough to achieve objectives. Again part of the basic problem, the smarter we believe ourselves to be about the nature of human nature the more blind we become to the individualism and interdependency that is the human race.
I believe that many of us care, some of us care too much and become extremists as the opposite is true with those who use blatantly the resources and energies that surround them without care or concern for the consequences. Where many years ago your family had independence yet knew the value of a neighbor who lived to either side of you. Helping one helping the other and for most of us today it would be hard to remember the last time we spoke to our neighbor or lent them a hand. We as a nation refuse to look back and do not look to far into the future as this is what "the norm" for psychological behaviors is based, yet it is that very past which gives us an ultimate destination in the future if we continue to ignore the past and future to focus on today. Today can handle itself and will no doubt for the next three billion or so years continue to take care of its future today's. We have too much diversity and it is forcing a gap between the world. We see differences in ideologies and religions, differences in treatment between one individual and another. We have help centers and call lines for illness and behaviors that would take a substantial book to display collectively. We are trying to save land and trees, birds and bees, whales and seals, owls and eels. We are trying to eliminate poverty and give the basics of life to a formidable population of what we call 'third-world' residents of this same earth through the varied efforts of numerous charities. Now, all worthwhile causes but –and allow this interjection on the word "but" when used in conversation, it is used in conditional agreement or disagreement and thus not concrete—we have too many choices. We have "too many buts" if you'd excuse the resonance with a pun. Give us a clear consensus; we cannot continue to unfurl so many different banners to so many common and important causes. It is fundamentally going to short everyone and hence in opinion continue to perpetuate the problem.
Let me get further into the midst of arrogance. Every single child born of this one world has a right to, is deserving of and by all the rights afforded any human being the basics in knowing safety, a full stomach, health care and an education. This is not just a local problem, a single countries problem but a world problem. And here's that word again, but this is for another time and another page.
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For too long I've messed with the wiring in my head. Now it shorts out more oft than not. But at my age I just sit and enjoy the sparks. RJM '07
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