Humanity
has reached a fork in the road to our collective future. Which way we choose will ultimately decide
our future. One road leads to a higher
mindfulness of the Earth and its capability to sustain us and the other
continues down the same destructive road we’re on, leading towards suffering
and hardship of unimaginable proportion.
The world that we all grew up with is changing in front of our eyes.
Many still belligerently deny the rapidly unfolding changes, the same deniers
often attack those who are willing to acknowledge and speak out about what is
unfolding. The life support systems of our planet are being systematically
ripped apart by the way we live. If we don’t take concrete action now, we will
cross a very dangerous line - one where the systems that allowed life, as we
know it, to flourish will collapse.
We
face a clear and present danger. This triggers a physiological reaction in response to this threat to survival. It’s
called the fight or flight response. When you first learn, I mean really learn,
about climate change you get scared, then you get sad and then you become
angry. Only after you get angry, I mean really angry, will you lash out at
what, and or who, is the cause of that fear or threat. It's then that
evolutionary protection mechanism - flight or fight is triggered. Since we have nowhere to "fly" to,
now and for the foreseeable future we are stuck with Earth as our home - we are
then forced fight for it! If WE all
don't get angry soon, and I mean really angry and realize we have no choice but
to stand and fight. Then all of us and future generations are in real trouble!
The cavalry is not coming, there is no knight in shining
armor galloping to our rescue, we are the army and if we are to win this battle
we all must take up arms! We know who the enemy is and they have a well
"oiled" machine that will stop at nothing - they are willing to fight
for their survival, are we?
