How to Save the World Part II

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C14-SrSv270 My last post on this topic brought out a very good discussion amongst the fellow alive not deaders.  One discussion was on population control, and I just wanted to start this blog off by addressing this "situation."  Yes population is an issue, but we only have this much of a population because of the use of oil.  Without oil we would have under 1 billion humans on earth.  It is only with the development of oil that we were able to reach 6 billion people.  It was only in the last 2 centuries that we were over 1 billion people.  And this is because of our discovery of how to cheat the sun.  We found that we could use coal and oil to produce energy.  This is known as the industrial age.  Now I am not saying that population isn't an issue, but we really can't go saying no one have kids! And go on consuming and producing toxic waste? NO! Of course not!  It isn't just population control that we need to change, it isn't just consumption, pollution, etc. etc.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YthUuIt_20M

We need to change our whole philosophy.  It is our wasteful culture that needs changing.  We have forgotten all of the best and wise sayings or our ancestors.  The wisest all knew what would happen when we stopped abiding by the sun.  We don't think of all the external cost that we are causing and creating.  People don't stop and think what the cost is of cheep goods that are made 10,000 miles away.  Lets look at a tomato grown in Mexico.  It is only shipped from Mexico to the rest of the world right? Wrong.  This tomato needed  seeds from a GMO product produced  by Monsanto, and then this seed was transported from the US to Mexico.  Next there needed to be chemical pesticides made, because our soil is so poor, so we import that from the US as well.  We mainly import this shit because it is illegal to use such pesticides in the US but not illegal in Mexico.  Now this tomato has traveled more then 1000 miles just to get to your doorstep.  But its ok! Oil is cheep and we can afford it right?

That same tomato cause a large amount of pollution in the air, land, and sea.  It cost billions of dollars "in taxes!" which most of us don't know about, and now 30+% of children have asthma due to our poor air quality.  But its ok cause we are living a happier life right?

We need to think of our external costs when we purchase and consume.  It isn't to say that consumerism or our egos are bad, its to say that we need to tone it down, and understand and keep responsibility.  Man is the only animal that actually is conscious of death.  Animals do not believe in death! This is because they don't die, they just come back as another animal (pending on a person's belief).  I'm sick of the we only got one life so you might as well live it, don't care about what happens to other generations.  Your kids! Your Future! Your Family! depends upon how our world acts up and how our world ends up.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yhB39xAqJU

The real solution to our problem is that we are still attacking the symptom and not the real cure.  Its just like any other disease known to man.  We give a pill, or we give a shot, or some sort of magic herb.  These are all symptoms of the problem.  Your body is trying to tell you something when you get sick, and our earth is trying to tell us something, when it rips a Fucking Tornado in Brooklyn.  It isn't an accident.  These series of events, Tsunami, Hurricanes, Tornado, are symptoms of the earth.  The earth is sick, and it is a direct refection on our own states.  How many humans are sick?  No wonder our earth is sick, because we have forgotten how to take care of ourselves!  The time is now to start our cure!

How do we solve this overwhelming problem? Go and change! If you are doing something that is "destructive."  Think about it.  Think about it before you purchase your next car, and before you purchase something new.    Think about what you are doing with that $300 purse or the $200 jeans that you don't even wear.  Really buy what you need.  You have the power.  It isn't time to see who has the biggest damn plasma.  Its time to see who can conserve and save the best.  Conservation, recycling, being green, organic, that is what is truly cool! Think about it.  We have a tremendous opportunity in our lifetimes.  We get to really save the world.  Not from a war, or plague, but from ourselves!  Really we aren't talking about the destruction of earth.  We are talking about the destruction of mankind.  Go out and change your philosophy.  Read, watch documentaries, be green.  This are things we need.  Humanity has many layers of hypocracy lets start cutting some of them away.  If you want kids, if you want a family, if you want a future, you need to do this.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiphcteFpqw

We think of all the world's problems and our own personal problems, but this is our master problem.  Think of how we can get together, and stop violence with just coming together to save our own existence.  Think of how much love a plant gives to us.  It is estimated that a plant donates 18 trillion dollars worth of work a year! That is double what we do as a world.  If we all come together and help save ourselves, don't you think your problems with relationships, weight loss, disease, other personal problems, other relationship problems, will go away?  I'll tell you what.  Worrying about your problems and not doing anything about them doesn't do anything.

I'm not saying you have to listen to what I say, I'm not saying you have to listen to anyone but yourself.  Take action.  Read something about what is really going on.  Send this blog to some friends.  Think before you purchase (this is the real vote in the world, how you spend).  Talk about this.  You don't have to be perfect, this isn't all or nothing, it is doing something above nothing, lots verses little.

We all have the power to be the change we want to see in the world.

Be Well,

H