Save the Humans

Fist Happy Thanksgiving Day to all.
This is a cross post from my other blog Rain City Gnosis. If you have read the rants over there don't worry. I haven't either.

Now I know that is an odd way to start a blog that is so full of gloom and doom but today is Thanksgiving. I have been ranting for weeks now about the sad state of affairs that is our planet. I have not offered any solutions. Why you ask? Because no one likes to be told what to do. No one wants a solutions or we would have one already.

This is what I do know. When I was a child everyone threw everything away. Newspapers, cans, Ok the bottles went back to the store to get the nickel deposit back but then they stopped requiring a deposit and those went into the trash as well. Things like 'Love Canal' happened. DDT was sprayed on all the food. Slowly people took notice. But what to do?
You can't just change the way everyone does everything overnight. It takes time. When people are concerned it seems overwhelming. It is too much at once. So you have to come up with some little something that EVERYONE can do. Not just some people.
Everyone can recycle. Everyone can reduce. Everyone can reuse. Ok so that is just the boy with his thumb in the dyke trying to prevent the water from rushing in and destroying the village. It is a stick in a raging torrent pretending to be a damn.
BUT, it is a start. Eventually the three R's become the norm.

so now everyone is in a huff about the economy. Why? Do I need 14 pairs of shoes? Do I need to whine about my next door neighbor when she puts up a chicken coop? I can support Urban Sustainability. I can give spiritual gifts at Christmas instead of expensive things that are forgotten about four months later. I can drive the same old car that I have had for the past 11 years and repair it rather than buy a new one.
Ok, so this doesn't stimulate the economy. I know. However it stimulates the spirit. Not only of me but of those around me. Maybe if enough of us twigs stick together we can create a damn that stops the flow of destruction.
Will it be enough? Will change come fast enough? If not, then the planet will continue with out our species. You see it isn't the planet that we need to save. The planet will go one. the question is will it go on with or without humans?

Most people I have known fall into one of two categories. They either think that no matter how bad things get, that in the end God won't let the planet be destroyed. Jesus will come back on clouds of glory with trumpets blaring and the 'bad' people will be thrown into a fiery pit and the earth will be returned to some sort of paradisiacal state. The others seem to think that modern science will take care of all our woes. The planet will be able to continue to support our ever growing population on to infinity. We will produce more food, live longer, had still have large families. Some how the other species that live on this planet will be content to live in a zoo or an aquarium or terrarium.
We are in a closed environment people! We live on a rock that is hurling through space. Where are ya gonna go when it is a trash heap? Save the planet? I say:

Save the humans.
1: Stop breeding like flies. Quality of people over quantity.
2: Stop treating our planet like a giant toilet.
3: Value education over war. i.e. put the money into education not wars.


So what will I do for Thanksgiving? To show that I am grateful for what I have I will not over indulge in food. I will not cook more than we can eat. I will not get wrapped up into the hype that the holiday season is about shopping, spending, giving material gifts or GETTING THEM. I will spend time with a joyful heart with friends, family and strangers. I will pray, meditate and give back to the planet.

What will you do? The future is in YOUR hands. If not you then who? If not now then when?