Can our Earth be Saved? Impact and Responsibility

[Glenn]

http://www.thefullwiki.org/World_Brotherhood_Colonies

[Dominique]

Originally Posted by popcorninthesofa

http://www.thefullwiki.org/World_Brotherhood_Colonies

SO, what is this? A reading assignment? I know how to navigate the internet to read. Do you have anything to bring to the conversation? I'm just curious?

[Sachita]

NYS was once subtropical, did you know that? Point being is that the earth is alive and ever changing. I do believe we are about to see some great earth changes in our time. I also believe that some will survive but many will die. This has been the case with countless civilizations before us.

I think that colonies and micro communities are the future and they are popping up everywhere. I don't think its easy but a lot of people seem to be doing it. It requires good team work and we've been living in a dog eat dog world where people find comfort in social networking verses human interacting. I often think about 'unplugging" and living life very simple but the truth is I'm afraid. Holy hell my power goes out a few hours and I'm uncomfortable. Can you imagine being in 100 degrees and no AC? It would be one thing if we didn't have to work 40-60 hours a week to support ourselves and could float in the lake, sit in the shade when temps soared.

I got an email from a good friend who decided I was the most open-minded person she knows. She completely floored me with the news that she and her husband have brought another woman into the relationship. She is thrilled about it and apparently she and her hubby of 8 years have been seeking this for a while. She went on to say that the woman they are involved with was once in a "large family" where there was an entire clan of free loving and thinking people. There were no set relationships just a type of commune where they all worked, raised kids, shared responsibilities and fucked who they wanted when they wanted. I'm thinking to myself "why the fuck would she leave that to team up with you two?" lol but I listened. She went on to say that they were taking their land and expanding their "family".

I think that if we can escape the social traps and just get down to our spiritual essence, what's really important, it would be an ideal concept for the changing times. I'd personally love a group of people living out here but attempts thus far have not been good. Perhaps I didn;t try hard enough to find the right people.

There is a intentional community not far from here called http://twinoaks.org/ I would love something like this on a smaller scale. These types of communities are popping up rapidly.

[Rockinonahigh]

Mother earth has been around for a long time,she has done things as she needed to to keep on being hear.In my opp its the humans who are liveing hear that should be aware of how they are going to live on her world.We have done a lot to mess it up its up to the ones who really value her to care for her so we will contenue to live hear.Modernization isnt always the beast unless its done with consern for our planet thet gives us life in many ways.I wonder how many people who have no idea of how to live with less would fare if in the blink of an eye we had to live as we did 100 years ago,its seems to me that as time goes on so many forget that once we choped wood for fuel to cook with or heat the house,washed clothes by hand,planted a guarden for veggies and hunted for food then processed it to eat the meat,fish or fowle.You can bet if there wasnt a grosery store to go to it will really shock some folks that it took so much work to simply servive.

[Gráinne]

I'm a geologist, so I'm coming at this from that angle. I'm also talking mostly about "global warming", a very controversial subject.

The Earth has always cooled and warmed for billions of years before humans. In fact, the Earth has been much warmer than it is now, and obviously it's been much cooler. The Earth has been gradually warming up since about 1850. Before that, from about 1300-1800 was a 500 year period called the "Little Ice Age", with cool summers, harsh winters, and a much wetter climate than we have now.

Interestingly, the cool, wet weather that set in about 1300 has been thought to contribute to poor health, thus making the people of Europe and Asia a sitting duck for the Black Plague. The Plague, which kept returning for many years after 1350, in turn contributed to social and economic changes that led to religious upheaval as the Catholic Church lost its hold on the people. Crop failures led to hunger and famine in some countries. When governments failed to address the needs and desperation of regular folks, there was revolution-in France, in the so-called Holy Roman Empire, and a little later on, in Russia and China. All these political upheavals had complicated reasons, but climate played a part.

I don't personally believe that man has had a lot to do with the current warming. This started about 1850, just before the Industrial Revolution (itself partly influenced by the mass moving of people from farm to cities), and this was in western Europe and part of America, much too small an area to all of a sudden warm up the Earth. We are in a natural cycle of the planet.

All this is not to say that we haven't hurt the planet-I recycle, and do what I can to support conservation. I just believe we have to be careful what sources of information we trust and consider all the scientific evidence. There's a lot of dubious information going around out there.