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There was actually an excellent presentation on the subject recently that discussed the ways in which environmental destruction ends up leading to revolts in time:Evironmental politics are at their worst when they rely on poor people continuing to live miserably.
The man is truly a godsend on multiple levelsCornell West, awesome! Had the privilege of meeting him a couple of years back.
Thank You. I very much enjoyed the video.There was actually an excellent presentation on the subject recently that discussed the ways in which environmental destruction ends up leading to revolts in time:
On a side note, seeing how the world operates and what is going on is indeed unfortunate. Paying attention to your soil which other creatures irrigate (such as ants/moles for example) an in order for it to be healthy and you end up sacrificing your trees giving you air oxygen to breathe - thus meaning they go on strike/die along with the soil when we demean it and we lose our lives as payment for the debt we owned to the land. Take your world seriously..
The dirt on soil: Underground biodiversity holds key to ecosystems
AMERICA.ALJAZEERA.COM
"From dust you are and from dust you shall return" (Genesis 3:19 ) - amazing how much we forget to value the ground we were made from and walk on, even though neglecting it will harm us when seeing how the air we breath (from trees in the soil) and the water we drink (recycled via evaporation when it rains) are impacted by it. Glad to be in touch with what God made outside..
Satish Kumar: the link between soil, soul and society
THEGUARDIAN.COM|BY SATISH KUMAR
Glad to know you were blessed by itThank You. I very much enjoyed the video.
In light of Standing Rock and films like the Revenant, I am thinking we need more awareness of environment
The image of the future that they gave me then, and it was their image, not one that I created, surprised me. My image had previously been sort of like Star Wars, where everything was space age, plastics, and technology.
The future that they showed me was almost no technology at all. What everybody, absolutely everybody, in this euphoric future spent most of their time doing was raising children. The chief concern of people was children, and everybody considered children to be the most precious commodity in the world.
And when a person became an adult, there was no sense of anxiety, nor hatred, nor competition.
There was this enormous sense of trust and mutual respect. If a person, in this view of the future, became disturbed, then the community of people all cared about the disturbed person falling away from the harmony of the group. Spiritually, through prayer and love, the others would elevate the afflicted person.
What people did with the rest of their time was that they gardened, with almost no physical effort. They showed me that plants, with prayer, would produce huge fruits and vegetables.
People, in unison, could control the climate of the planet through prayer. Everybody would work with mutual trust and the people would call the rain, when needed, and the sun to shine.
Animals lived with people, in harmony.
Environmental issues may not be exactly a question of religion or faith - yet bizarrely enough, there are people out there who treat them as if they were. Bafflingly enough, conservative think tanks who feel that any change to the status quo would endanger their future profits have managed to convince a considerable portion of the population that it's all a big controversy, that the verdict is not yet in, and that those who'd call for an immediate response to these threats are loopy fanatics who don't know what's what.
And all the while, the rainforests keep on dwindling, the oceans are not only plagued by growing garbage patches but also subject to acidification, which may cause the entire marine ecosystem to collapse from the bottom up, species everywhere are disappearing at a rate that you'd otherwise associate with major natural catastrophes, our own species grows at an alarming rate, and we are using up natural resources at a pace that would require several planets at the same time to sustain.
The thing is: none of this is a controversy. The verdict of the scientific community (i.e. people who deal with these matters professionally and have all the data at hand) is virtually unanimous. To deny it and pretend that it's still nothing more than some wishy-washy hypothesis is the rough equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and going "LALALA!!! I CANNOT HEAR YOU!!"
So... how does your religion relate to the devastating effect our post-industrial species has on the planet, and what does it have to say about combating the mess we've created?
Examples?
There was actually an excellent presentation on the subject recently that discussed the ways in which environmental destruction ends up leading to revolts in time:
Agreed. I like that the Catholic Church focuses on this aspect of climate change:Evironmental politics are at their worst when they rely on poor people continuing to live miserably.
The first world is like a glutton who realizes that if everybody else treats the larder the same way they do, food will be depleted before they can burp - and then go on to tell the peasants that they ought to tighten their belts a few notches, while the fat guys continue to overeat.
We don't have to wait 50 years, the earth, because of how poorly we have treated her, is killing a lot of people right now.Bad environment may kill some people 50 years later. But environmental protection acts will kill some people NOW.
The trend I want to follow is to leave as much of a pristine earth to my children and grandchildren and their children as possible. The earth is sacred and I truly be believe that we need to be treating her as such.YOU make the choice.
Unfortunately, it is too late to reverse this trend. Nobody wants to go back to a lower living standard.
I think there's a LOT more pipeline accidents than your aware of.And the oil pipeline construction will not kill anyone until it leaks some years in the future.
The trend I want to follow is to leave as much of a pristine earth to my children and grandchildren and their children as possible. The earth is sacred and I truly be believe that we need to be treating her as such.
And here's a video of pipeline accidents between the years 1986 to 2013.
There's a lot of data available...This must include a lot water pipelines.
One just broke nearby my home day before.
I am always skeptical on this kind of statistics. Junks.
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