I have just read an article in the Aust press (
Little logic to heated debate).
There are times I find myself wondering about something, and then find someone has written an article on exactly that matter. There are two cases recently - first about 'what the flower is going on at Fukushima!?' and I just read an article which explains I am not alone in this; secondly, this point:
Crisis after crises keep us on the edge of our seats, with the smack-in-your-face obviousness that we have done something, or at least played a crucial role in doing something, to this precious planet.
Baba, you will recall, posted a comedy YT to which I responded with some equivocation. The reason was probably lost on most, and I didn't explain - Baba left after that. What caused my reaction was a joke by a rather otherwise very interesting man, about the absurdity of "saving the planet". There are deeper levels to this joke, which Baba understood, but I doubt this man's audience did. However, in the current context, I feel these deeper levels are not relevant.
The top level of this joke, missed the point - no one is talking about saving the 'planet' as such - the term is directed to saving ourselves, and indirectly saving the eco-sphere which is maintaining our existence. Of course we would be under a huge hubristic arrogance to believe we can save such a massive and old cosmic object like this planet. But we can do something about what we ourselves have caused - we can avert and reverse the destruction our own ignorance and greed have brought about. That is what 'saving the planet' means. And we have already succeeded previously in individual cases - but unfortunately it seems, no longer.
What I have been wondering about, is why with all this chaos going on, never seen like it before in recorded history, is there still almost nothing being said about Global Warming?
Lenore, in her article says:
Most Australians accept the climate is warming but the public has become somewhat less confident about the proposition, even as the evidence has become more certain.
That's the point. Evidence is building up like a tidal wave (to use the age-old English expression), and yet in complete denial of this evidence, less people believe in it. She put the point perfectly - people believe the earth is warming, and yet they don't believe in 'Global Warming'.
You have to see here the level of emotional development of our species. We are perfectly capable of irrational and insane juxtapositions. Please, everyone in Soma, keep this in mind - because we are just as capable of this as that world out there.
She gives eminent reasons for why this has occurred, but in the end, it's all about the power of advertising and persuasion. Be warned - how many of your own cherished opinions were implanted with emotive efficacy into your brain?
But you will never admit to it!
Till the day you die.