Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Mother Earth and Father Universe...Getting Upset


I have been listening and reading the reports from all over the world the last few weeks. I wonder if we are really as blind to what is happening as it seems. Something is happening! It my not be in our backyard but it soon will be.

Earthquakes, Tsunamis, disastrous storms and volcanic activity are on the increase. We are at the lowest point of solar activity in our history. Our earth is growling and our people are dieing.

On April 7th of this year it was declared that the world is in a food shortage due to the following major reasons: new food demand by China, the high price of oil, bad weather in important farming areas (particularly Australia, the reduction of farmland available to grow foodstuff — in favor of growing biofuel crops, for the purposes of alternative, (reputedly) environmentally safe energy sources such as ethanol.

We are also seeing a decrease in drinking water but yet we do nothing to replenish or save what we have or divert water from natural paths which can lead to global disaster.

Picture a "ghost ship" sinking into the sand, left to rot on dry land by a receding sea. Then imagine dust storms sweeping up toxic pesticides and chemical fertilizers from the dry seabed and spewing them across towns and villages.

Seem like a scene from a movie about the end of the world? For people living near the Aral Sea in Central Asia, it's all too real. Thirty years ago, government planners diverted the rivers that flow into the sea in order to irrigate (provide water for) farmland. As a result, the sea has shrunk to half its original size, stranding ships on dry land (see photograph above). The seawater has tripled in salt content and become polluted, killing all 24 native species of fish.


Only 2.5% of the water on earth is drinkable. That is not very much for our growing population yet we do what we do and we pollute what is left.

Mother Earth and Father Universe are getting pissed. Unless we take control and do something and the right something we will indeed be living in a Mad max movie before the end of my lifetime...

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