In Harmony with Nature’ March 2011
Of all the animals that inhabit this wonderful planet we are just about the only one who is completely at odds with it. We are not in Harmony with nature.
The earth does not need us for her existence and at the moment it almost feels that she is telling us to sit down and listen to her because we need her.
We are the passengers, not the crew. Without the crew the earth will die, but without us she will only prosper
We plunder the earth everyday and for what?
Yes we do it for survival but more and more these days it seems to be for Greed.
Man storms around this planet raping the earth for the almighty dollar.
We have been told that Carbon is the bad guy in all of this and if we can control it by introducing new taxes then we can still justify pumping the same shit into the atmosphere.
It doesn’t solve any problems it just makes your conscience feel a little better and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Clean coal is another great idea which I just love.
Let’s catch all this nasty carbon and bury it in a big hole somewhere, doesn’t matter where as long as it’s out of sight and out of mind.
That’s the best thing to do. It would be too hard to work out a way of actually dealing with the carbon on a more practical level and maybe use it for something more productive.
Let’s say we might make some diamonds.
The Great Artesian Basin is arguably the largest groundwater aquifer in the world (over 1.7 million km²). …
We are now trying to get coal gas from the ground and in this process we are slowly beginning to contaminate this massive resource.
Ground water levels have dropped in recent years and it will take thousands of years before this would return to pre mining days.
In not one instance are we addressing the problems that exist,
If carbon is so bad just stop using it and find something which is not so bad for the planet.
Solar, wind and wave power which are such an obvious solutions to our many energy problems has been casually ignored for decades because it’s been easier to plunder the earth rather than try and work out how to make them more efficient or cost effective.
Can you imagine if we had ploughed the amount of money oil and gas gets each year into where Green technologies where we might be right now?
The earth has been rumbling over the last few months, she seems a bit upset, but then again she has been doing this for millennia. Man is certainly causing her some indigestion but in the grand scheme of things in her history we are a mere few seconds on irritation.
But we should listen to her, we need to live in Harmony with her or she might just give us the flick