Titanic
Titanic
In my humble opinion, the changes we humans are shortly going to be accepting (regardless of our preferences) are huge. I would be dishonest if I stated otherwise. On the one hand, I believe that, given our incredibly advanced communication capacity and the mushrooming rate of advancement of science and it's applications, we humans have the capacity to (working together) establish a literal heaven on Earth. But on the other hand, given our time-and-again having demonstrated seeming inability to get along sufficiently to even stop fighting let alone work together, it looks bleaker and bleaker by the day to me as far as our collective near future. For me the most recent lesson to be learned is acceptance. And I will be maybe just as accepting to no longer be writing this monthly submission to the Homepage should the editor decide my opinions are just too downbeat and disturbing to be printed. So here, one more time (and maybe the last, since we should be thinking about switching over to digital so as to stop the environmental effects of printing this neighborhood newspaper every month on paper) is my point of view.
We should immediately declare a moratorium on all cutting down trees and vegetation except where absolutely necessary. Every plant provides such ecosystem services as oxygen and consumption of co2, and they need to be much more appreciated. Forget about mowed lawns. Let everything grow up wild. We will much more likely survive the coming difficulties if we give as much room as possible to our relatives (all the other species of life).
We're not going to have enough money to build all these nice things we have in mind for the ALMONO site. The changes are coming too quickly. We need to change our priorities to a more simple, cooperative lifestyle, and expect that the economy and government are going to be every bit as unreliable as our abruptly changing climate. Radical deep green technological innovation is what we have to go for. We will no longer be able to make the assumption that as long as we pay the electric bill, for instance, the electricity will be on. Weather events and their economic effects, and the effects of all the resource wastes of our wars and vicious economic decisions, will make it likely there will be more and more power outages. Deal with it, not by panicking, but by forging friendly relations with those around you. We're going to need each other.
One of the earliest film versions about the sinking of the ship named the Titanic, which was believed unsinkable, had the ship's designer on board when it hit the iceberg, calculating that with the damage done, the ship had approximately 22 minutes before it sank, which he dutifully reported to the captain. That's the way I and a good number of others feel, that, regardless of the unpleasantness of the task, it is our job to state what we think. As many times as I have in this monthly article tried to explain that it is not any individual change that worries so much as the interaction between these changes, I have pretty much failed to get many to awake to the magnitude of the problem. We're in a quantum change moment in history. The changes are changing the changes.
It takes a spiritual perspective (recognizing that there is more to this reality than just the material world) to not let one's spirit sink with the titanic changes ensuing at this moment in Earth's history. The miracles of this life only come to the extent we are able to go beyond our own personal desires in order to work for the good of all.
International agencies concerned with eliminating world hunger list food waste as one of its causes. Not just what you buy at the store and end up throwing away. Also what never gets out of the field because it didn't meet some public perception of what good food is, such as apples that are "too small" or oranges that have marks on the skin or food that goes bad before it can be sold. Another category of food going to waste has to do with preferences and what we define as food. If, like most people, you've never tasted the "wild edibles" or "edible weeds", let me say as delicately as possible that you and your ignorance are part of the problem. Come to Everybody's Garden at the corner of W. Elizabeth and Lytle Streets and let me show you the couple I know of and have been growing. Purslane has more of those good omega fatty acids than anything you'll buy in a store. And lambs quarters, which is like spinach, is 40% protein. Both these plants come up without having to be planted, and you can have them fresher for free than what you can buy in a store. Because of our city-bred cultural cluelessness, most of us are afraid to try these things which people have been eating for thousands of years - for the simple reason that we've never seen them in a grocery store. But, part of the healthy food movement which is sweeping the world in opposition to corporate giants such as Monsanto and Bayer, is that now some upscale restaurants are starting to serve dishes made with these.
We've extremely tough times ahead. But with the blinders taken off we can see the miraculous. The Earth is alive.
There are some who recognize that plants (like animals) are alive and have consciousness. To stretch your own cultural mindsets, look at
How Plants Defend Themselves
http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/how-plants-defend-themselves-zm0z13amzcom.aspx .
It has been in the short term interests of the status quo to keep us ignorant of so many wonderful things, such as the fact that what used to be called angels or spiritual beings are still around. We have been mis-educated out of being open-minded to the fact that humans are not the top of the totem pole in terms of evolution. There are beings throughout the Universe, and they are often trying to help, but are inhibited by greedy people trying to keep ahold of science applications. There is much to life we don't know, and much is possible that the average person assumes is impossible, such as non-nuclear non-combustion energy.
At this historic phase change in human history, as weather and other systems continue to break down, we are going to suffer increasing crescendos of pain until we open ourselves to loving cooperation not only with others but with all life.
Jim McCue
412-421-6496
In my humble opinion, the changes we humans are shortly going to be accepting (regardless of our preferences) are huge. I would be dishonest if I stated otherwise. On the one hand, I believe that, given our incredibly advanced communication capacity and the mushrooming rate of advancement of science and it's applications, we humans have the capacity to (working together) establish a literal heaven on Earth. But on the other hand, given our time-and-again having demonstrated seeming inability to get along sufficiently to even stop fighting let alone work together, it looks bleaker and bleaker by the day to me as far as our collective near future. For me the most recent lesson to be learned is acceptance. And I will be maybe just as accepting to no longer be writing this monthly submission to the Homepage should the editor decide my opinions are just too downbeat and disturbing to be printed. So here, one more time (and maybe the last, since we should be thinking about switching over to digital so as to stop the environmental effects of printing this neighborhood newspaper every month on paper) is my point of view.
We should immediately declare a moratorium on all cutting down trees and vegetation except where absolutely necessary. Every plant provides such ecosystem services as oxygen and consumption of co2, and they need to be much more appreciated. Forget about mowed lawns. Let everything grow up wild. We will much more likely survive the coming difficulties if we give as much room as possible to our relatives (all the other species of life).
We're not going to have enough money to build all these nice things we have in mind for the ALMONO site. The changes are coming too quickly. We need to change our priorities to a more simple, cooperative lifestyle, and expect that the economy and government are going to be every bit as unreliable as our abruptly changing climate. Radical deep green technological innovation is what we have to go for. We will no longer be able to make the assumption that as long as we pay the electric bill, for instance, the electricity will be on. Weather events and their economic effects, and the effects of all the resource wastes of our wars and vicious economic decisions, will make it likely there will be more and more power outages. Deal with it, not by panicking, but by forging friendly relations with those around you. We're going to need each other.
One of the earliest film versions about the sinking of the ship named the Titanic, which was believed unsinkable, had the ship's designer on board when it hit the iceberg, calculating that with the damage done, the ship had approximately 22 minutes before it sank, which he dutifully reported to the captain. That's the way I and a good number of others feel, that, regardless of the unpleasantness of the task, it is our job to state what we think. As many times as I have in this monthly article tried to explain that it is not any individual change that worries so much as the interaction between these changes, I have pretty much failed to get many to awake to the magnitude of the problem. We're in a quantum change moment in history. The changes are changing the changes.
It takes a spiritual perspective (recognizing that there is more to this reality than just the material world) to not let one's spirit sink with the titanic changes ensuing at this moment in Earth's history. The miracles of this life only come to the extent we are able to go beyond our own personal desires in order to work for the good of all.
International agencies concerned with eliminating world hunger list food waste as one of its causes. Not just what you buy at the store and end up throwing away. Also what never gets out of the field because it didn't meet some public perception of what good food is, such as apples that are "too small" or oranges that have marks on the skin or food that goes bad before it can be sold. Another category of food going to waste has to do with preferences and what we define as food. If, like most people, you've never tasted the "wild edibles" or "edible weeds", let me say as delicately as possible that you and your ignorance are part of the problem. Come to Everybody's Garden at the corner of W. Elizabeth and Lytle Streets and let me show you the couple I know of and have been growing. Purslane has more of those good omega fatty acids than anything you'll buy in a store. And lambs quarters, which is like spinach, is 40% protein. Both these plants come up without having to be planted, and you can have them fresher for free than what you can buy in a store. Because of our city-bred cultural cluelessness, most of us are afraid to try these things which people have been eating for thousands of years - for the simple reason that we've never seen them in a grocery store. But, part of the healthy food movement which is sweeping the world in opposition to corporate giants such as Monsanto and Bayer, is that now some upscale restaurants are starting to serve dishes made with these.
We've extremely tough times ahead. But with the blinders taken off we can see the miraculous. The Earth is alive.
There are some who recognize that plants (like animals) are alive and have consciousness. To stretch your own cultural mindsets, look at
How Plants Defend Themselves
http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/how-plants-defend-themselves-zm0z13amzcom.aspx .
It has been in the short term interests of the status quo to keep us ignorant of so many wonderful things, such as the fact that what used to be called angels or spiritual beings are still around. We have been mis-educated out of being open-minded to the fact that humans are not the top of the totem pole in terms of evolution. There are beings throughout the Universe, and they are often trying to help, but are inhibited by greedy people trying to keep ahold of science applications. There is much to life we don't know, and much is possible that the average person assumes is impossible, such as non-nuclear non-combustion energy.
At this historic phase change in human history, as weather and other systems continue to break down, we are going to suffer increasing crescendos of pain until we open ourselves to loving cooperation not only with others but with all life.
Jim McCue
412-421-6496
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