We are All Connected, Aren’t We?
Posted by Peter James | Posted in Balanced Life, Current Events, Healthy Living | Posted on 03-06-2010
Tagged Under : animals, balance, bp, earth, environment, gulf, Humanity, Life, oil, right to life, spill
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Colin, a talented friend of mine recently was inspired by the BP Oil incident and made the gut wrenching video below from all of the photos released about the spill. The visuals really hit home for me, choked me up, and inspired me to write some feelings I have had for a long time…
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The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf has really started to highlight a point I think the world has been missing for a long, long time. The truth is, WE are all connected. Yes, we meaning the Earth, all of its inhabitants, and humanity itself. Every creature plays a part in making this world what it is: but a small part of an expanding universe.
Yet for some reason, some time ago, the idea that animals, the Earth itself, or any other living organisms have the equal right to life as humans was discarded as hogwash. Humans are much more important, with a greater right to life, because we have a brain. That incredible brain that separates us as the cream of the animal crop is what allows us, and gives us the right, to F up the world when we want to. Right?
So what if we slaughter species after species of animals or no reason, or we ruin the one planet we have ever found that supports life. As long as someone somewhere is able to make large sums of money, who really cares about the ecosystem and the environment? I mean, if we screw up the earth, we can just move to…um….we can go live on….um…, yeah, exactly.
This is why, I just don’t get it anymore. I am fed up with humanity. On a smaller level, I simply drive down the road (an environmental issue onto itself), and I see animal after animal dead in the street. People don’t care. It’s cool, as long as they get where they are going. Then, on a major disaster level, we see something like the BP oil spill. Everyone is up in arms like this is first time, or unfortunately the last, an oil company has F’ed up an ecosystem. People will hoot and holler, but at the end of the day, it will just continue on, as long as we are able to live comfortably. Some politician(s) will use this to try and drum up votes at the next election. Some entrepreneur will find a way to profit, and the rest of us will simply move on to the next catastrophe.
However, this perspective needs to change, or it will be humanity’s downfall. A friend of mine recently mentioned something he heard and it completely blew my mind. Basically, he put it like this…
When the human body gets a virus, it lives and grows until it becomes a threat. Then the body naturally fights it with everything it has until the virus is dead, or the human is. Right now, we (humanity) are the virus. The Earth is the body, and it is fighting back against us. Volcano after volcano, earthquake after earthquake, tsunamis, etc. The Earth is tired of humanity and is doing its best to save itself and rid its body of the threat that humanity has become. And even if humanity survives, will the Earth?
I just don’t understand the universal logic that humans have a greater right to life than anything else on this planet. I mean we all live here, we all contribute, and we are all part of this once beautiful, sacred planet we call the Earth.
The government will do what they can to help, as long as it helps their supporter’s pocketbooks, or contributes to more votes for them. The majority of humans, probably including myself, will get over this at some point, and move on. This circle of life will continue until at some point, it will come to a crashing halt that will make this nightmare of a recession we are in look like heaven on Earth.
All I can say to everyone is please wake up.
The only way to change our perspective is through one person at a time. So the next time you pass a dead animal in the road, and swerve your car annoyed that it might get some blood on your tires, think of the animal itself. Think of that on a mass level happening everyday. Humanity is slowly biting the hand that feeds it. What started as a few nibbles, has snowballed into a voracious appetite for total destruction of the beautiful planet we live on, and everything that gets in our way.
Unfortunately for us, there is no check anyone can write to buy another Earth. So once again, please remind me, who are the animals with the advanced brains?
Love It. Live here in FL. They need to put this on CNN. You guys did a great Job
Thanks deniell, I hope everyone learns a lesson from the tragedy u r witnessing first hand.
I still think humans are the ones with the “advanced brains”. The problem is that we have thrown the responsibility that brings out the door. I believe that part of the reason we are on this earth is to take care of it and the creatures that share it with us. We have failed as a race. We continue to fail.
You are right, we get all up in arms over this disaster, but curl our noses at roadkill because it’s not a cute dolphin. We have compartmentalized how we view the world. The oil spill = disaster; our wastefulness and trash = necessary evil.
We are all individually as guilty as any CEO…we just don’t want to admit that.
We need to take responsibility for the power we possess as individuals and as a world community.
Nice post, it’s sad but true.
I would love to create a massive change and movement to preserve the world and stop polluting it, but humanity has grown to such giant numbers that it is going to be very difficult to change.
I am afraid that the only way that change will happen is after a terrible disaster, one that maybe halve or decrease our population by 75%. Whether that be natural distasters, disease or war, it is almost inevitable that the exponential growth of our population is going to be reversed at some point in time. That may be in my lifetime or it may not.
I just wish people would stop doing things for capital gains and contribute and preserve the world that we live on. We need all the governments to collaborate and work together to make the world a better place. It is definitely possible, but how?
The movement needs to be big enough:)
Very well put David. Thanks for contributing!
Diggy,….one person at a time. That’s all we can really control at the end of the day.
Pogo in an old comic series once said: “WE HAVE SEEN THE ENEMY, HE IS US”. So let’s start by looking collectively in the mirror about our behaviour and our excuses for it. Until then, we can continue enjoying our cars and the oil spill by product.
Briansz, I could not agree more.
So if animals are as smart as us why don’t you see THEM driving the cars or applying logic to solve problems other then just use their instinct.
If there is one thing humanity has it’s when to use their instinct AND their logic at the SAME FUCKING TIME.
I know because I have struggled the hard way due to having spirits cause me to be blocked from people and I have fought thru hell and back damaging my brain in the process and I am still young.
Hell these spirits are probably going to block this *beeep* post but light and love will prevail and there ain’t a fucking thing these spirits can do about it.
:p