Saving the Earth … (09/21/14)
“If you do not change direction, you will end up where you are heading.” ~ Buddha
Today, as a species, we are headed for destruction. And I don’t mean the violations of human rights and the blasphemies of war & poverty that still plague us … I mean complete and utter ecological collapse.
I mean mass starvation … I mean the full decimation of the world’s rainforests .. I mean the loss of hundreds of thousands of viable, sentiment species … I mean the loss of most of the world’s fresh water supplies, and the pollution of the supplies that remain … I mean a radical shift in our global climate that will lead to massive flooding, devastating storms & catastrophic agricultural losses.
I mean the collective death of our human civilization.
And this is not some radical, trumped-up “doomsday conspiracy” … This is truly exactly where we are headed as a species. Today, solely because of our needless, greedy & cruel consumption of the flesh of other animals, we are marching briskly towards our own extinction.
And yet this does not have to be the case … Though we are currently still behaving like selfishly callous human animals, we could be so much more … we could choose to become Human Beings.
We CAN
stop the madness, my Friends. We CAN still save our planet & thereby ourselves.
It all starts (and ultimately all ends) by what we choose to put on our plate — and by WHO we choose not to put there.
We might be headed rapidly for disaster, and yet it is not too late to head a different direction — a direction of respect for all sentient life; a direction of Kindness towards all our brothers & sisters; a direction of health for our bodies & our planet; in essence, a direction of Peace.
A beautiful Life & a joyous Living is waiting for us, and yet in order to arrive on those different shores, we must first choose to head in a different direction.
Will you help me change our course?
“There is the risk that you cannot afford to take, and then there is the risk that you cannot afford not to take.” ~ Peter Drucker
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