climate events: more heat and evaporation in dried areas (droughts), extreme rainfall longer and more frequent, temperature falls harshest, and its derivative consequences over terrains and ecosystems. The cycles among compartments, are naturally adjusted or arranged, but somehow they come: these natural processes of adjustment comes under threat, because droughts, sudden storms, drylands, increasing of strength and energy of climate cycles, become more common: the adding of a slightly increase on the sea levels, is not a good new.
A line of targets and goals (all green) to achieve has been established in order to reach a balance in the raft of indicators for the climate change. But this is not matter of targets, is a matter of wants and use made. Despite the many years of willing signatures, the signed agreements over climate control have utterly failed decade after decade, and throughout this whole time, we seldom have seen a Government taking up the wrongs, only bother to say nice words. An effort to spread a bit of facts and knowledge about climate change is this one by Dave Reay; in his site GreenHouse Gas Online.
Few words more are needed. An individual attitude is needed.
I am a little puzzled by all this: solutions.
Our mind is lazy by nature, likes to be eating popcorns on the movie. While we follow building a wall of blindness, will be hard to recover the emotional health. Is there some intelligence, or just quick people? A Martian would prefer do not become contacted, it would be very dangerous to have such very rude guests at home.
I cannot imagine another kind and humorous way of expressing what can cause watched from afar, rather than the opinion of Julius Caesar. What would have said Julius Caesar? Julius Caesar was advised by a kind of wizards as other Roman chieftains, but surely he took up decisions by himself. "Veni, vidi, vinci" currently would have been another statement as: "Came, Saw, and I did not believe what I saw".
18. Popcorn, either in Swahili or English.
All our life eating popcorns.
Nowadays, we should not be like those citizens of the Middle Ages, bowed and subjected to events, waiting for the signal of a God who fixes things: we already know that besides having each one a God, we have knowledge and experience to bring organization that seems to have and there is not. Despite having this in our baggage, now ills are not pests, are the product of our lack of self-esteem, of our unwillingness and independence, lack of judgment, I would even cowardice, and much greed, really tons of greed. So we sit down to watch the movie that put us, eating popcorn, and protesting at low and only occasionally.
Where resides the real power of simple folks who can actually make the difference? It is a simple act, do not to be in the consumer lists, quite the opposite, create and be the decision makers list. This is to say not… to only one 10% of goods that are presents around you, to begin. Every company knows can make business arriving to this 10% percent of population. You could force them to decide exactly that kind of good you want purchase: for example, I want you (all of you) to do clean agriculture, I want you to do protecting forests, I want you to do trading registered and transparent. I do not want more animal suffering, I do not want more smart changes without our smart criterion and decision. I do not want more give money others to pay fur. I do not want more speedy and unnecessary cars; I want quiet and light cars.
First you want to stop being idiotic, as with cigarettes.
Well, my way to reach all this is by changing, for example, beginning with a 10% into my life. Then it will be easier to change another 10% in my life. Each time I save from my spending a 10% I redirect some of those costs to other objectives. I already decided before, I already have a personal judgment, I already decided put my sight onto local wants and needs, truly comprehensible things. And it will be more and more, and also my children, and my community. The more people conducts a behavior, the stronger is. It is not spiritualism, but may be if you want.
There are no one market which can force me to nothing in my life, I am only myself. You may be sure, only you can be your worse enemy. As ever, the results come on time, only one year after go to light, and this is not new, already has been done. More than joy, this causes stupor when becomes visible the change of life so simple that you get.
Well, it is true; it is not so easy. Nobody likes to change suddenly their route, their patterns, their assurances, their brands, their references, their dogmas, in the end all reliance. Always there are other ways to do, for example: after change some key points in the world, the way of work altogether, the way of connect and communicate, other changes come also, as may be a change in the way that a network of populations, villages, towns and economies exchange its products and services, valuing by agreement inversely the distance, the use of transport, both if the products go as when the products come. Once established, being well calculated the formula for prices, it will be a peace undesirable for global companies, but the better for the common population. It is completely desirable and reasonable to want retrieve the business, labor, and return it to your control.
That is what really are popcorns: those delightful candies, those little drugs, your quiet, your little dose of happiness filmed, that sounds to reality, but is not. The best way to desire things is not to have it. Are worth when are not there. By crawling the history of merges, shares, owners, relationships, among bigger companies in the world, you would understand how and by who is decided, privately, what the crowds will like and need on the next days, months and years. There are an interesting study made by three researchers (barely noticed, of course, press media are blind to this) that has highlighted some spots on the current economic world: how keeping a net of companies, is it possible control the overall profit, by letting that some of its companies go down, and endorsing the growth and expansion from others. The candies are offered by some companies sometimes, and by other companies in other time.
The state how your body ends everyday, says a lot from your ability to be aware. By working for hours dipped between machines, or perhaps projects, not seeing for years one tree, one bird, one cow pissing across one fence, one mate smiling, dashing along the streets and traffic jams, asking yourself from who is this child in your house (I remember you that is your child, of course), truly, do you think all this things do not affect to your being, your life, deeply and continuously? Please, take a big time off, you might spend a few moments watching around, and take note how much that is affecting all of us.
We are proud by not have guilt of that, be innocents: always is a politician as Julius Caesar who make the war far, he comes back with gold and silver, and makes us rich. But the things go bad for us sometimes, and that is the high price for keep being innocents: the foreman, the chairman, the boss, the president and his team are free to do the suitable, what they consider: do not worry all will be right! If it smells too far, then we will claim his trial and his punishment, horrified and sorrowing by such an indescribable act. The savvy says us how things must be done, and the greed says us what to do when we all end in a silent agree, in the dark.
Things cannot work thus for longer… I guess, do not you?
A herd of twenty baboons in a square mile fighting among them may solve their problems without too wounds. A forty pigeons flock jailed in eight cubic meters will be halved sure: it is too little space for living, and rules do not work too well. With us things are not different.
Then, eight billion inhabitants quarreling for food and water, likely will not be able to avoid clashes in different degrees, since the less worrying till the more shocking fights, sometimes widely extended. And we are like 8 billion baboons, deceiving ourselves written, even among those who are closest companions. This is the common history of everyday, can be applied without fear to every matter: health, food, the heat we need, the shelter, or even a place to live. We are not working to protect either the environment or our organization, only our individual prosperity. We are completely refractory to the death of others (that economically forced by poverty), to the miserable life of others - and not because they work but because t
hey have no defense.
How can we believe that we are dedicated to solve complex problems if the underlying problems which cause them are rooted in the way what we live, and to live in? Does not escape from this attitude no religion, no politics, no society: all have a hand covering existing shame of what we are with our fellow, precisely what other species are not themselves.
I go back again and again to talk about land and food, which is common for every being in the Nature: that binds us to the same laws that explain the disappearance of many of them. There are things you never will see again, be sure, and other things will be seen for the first time: that is not a prediction, this is same as saying that the sun shines and the moon reflects, facts; these next forty years, you will see less forests, less wildlife, more lands naked, climate cycles stronger and more intensive with more energy on the atmosphere, less freshwater stored, more lands technified, goods more expensive. All this will have effects in our lives. Something scarce is golden. Whose has the scarcity has the control, they will be millionaire, and will put a high value for scarce resources, and go charge a big bill. Therein lies the interest
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