Climate change and the state of the world: What has happened so far? Where are we heading? Is there a need to stop and ponder or must one carry on doing the same thing as one has done in the past? Is there a need to pause or must one simply ignore? In another way, one may not ignore. It is a massive problem which reasonable minds find a must in a world often dominated by each for oneself where the common has taken over by the ego self where the latter is prize above and beyond all forms of way of being. It is a rampant tragedy where the physical self and its needs has become the immediate concern.
On the other hand, that earth in which one resides is brutalised on a daily basis through a lack of concern and care. All has been brutalised and neglected for a more ‘I’ where the latter seems it has carte blanche to do as it wants regardless of the dialectics. The latter clearly shows the state of the world which has been tampered with through one’s greed. It has been exploited as if we may do as we please. We continue doing the same over and over again.
The youth of this world, the new generation has been alarmed to this disaster awaiting to happen. To be sure, there has always been a concern as I recalled reading in the sixties that there was always a need to be so aware. They would say that by planting a tree for every new born is a way to combat environmental issues back then.
Moreover, decades later it is a different scenario, one where whether one likes it or not there is a disaster awaiting to happen. It is precisely that which has led school children to take to the streets in an effort to alarm their elders or the governing authorities that they need to stop, pause and reflect. If one does nothing about climate change, a physical doom awaits. The threshold of human input is alarming by how one contributes in an arrogant way towards it.
To rise above pettiness and see the actual concern may mean a different way to be. A change in our lifestyle. Or a movement away from the calculated or a cool way to be with a lack of respect for earth or its exploitation which has put us where we are today.
Britain started the industrial revolution some 200 years ago and now with the disaster looming has become the first country to pronounce that it will go zero emission by 2050. In some ways, this is most welcoming as I write the whole arena is dominated with Brexit yet parliament in its wisdom chose to ensure that it shall take a lead in this matter of trying to undo what has been done for the past two centuries and decades after decades all these were intensified and repeated globally and so we have a global problem.
Every effort done towards improvement is in the appropriate direction but the situation calls for action now not a token gesture on a global scale. We may no longer exist in isolation. It is a fact that any action in a state affects others elsewhere. To retrieve into oneself may not be deemed as prudent nor diligent as one may not exist as independently as one may think.
The spirit of separatism or sense of individualism in isolation bears no change. The sooner one adopts a way of togetherness and see how we are cornered in the world the better it would be. Perhaps then the sense of hatred and arrogance may give rise to appreciation of others. Where there is a lack of respect certainly, we are cornered and others feel that they know or that their way is the best. The consensus may not be there. Or the call is to sort out oneself first and the extended one before moving on towards an usness of being without which one may only fall flat!
Things are changing at a fast rate that experts agree there is a need for action. Some others though still nurture the belief that it will be fine….cometh the hour as humans will find a way out of this dilemma which is some way putting trust in humanoids and its ability to rise up to the challenge. All a question of trying to find common grounds rather than venturing in the way ahead not quite knowing of where one is heading or what to do.
At the base, the call is to be in reflective mode where one may see and feel the need to be alarmed that there is a readiness to play one’s part in an effort to find a solution and a way forward. Is it possible to do so in isolation? Or should there be a common ground, an agreement in principle that there ought to be change in our lifestyles but there must be. Or else that disaster awaiting to happen may be a reality as we are being warned by school children who is teaching the rest of naïve ones of what to do and or not what to not to.
A clear question of listening to others rather than venturing in a single one tract mindedness where all one does is simply follow one’s diktat whilst disregarding all others. Or we may still carry on doing so in bad faith where what matters is the parochial self belief that only ones elf and those who espouse our way of being has a monopoly as to how the world should be which of course politicians are fully aware of as theirs are trying to see their community or their country through a loophole or that of perceiving things based on a preconceived way of being often engaging ferociously with the opponents as if they know it all.
The point of the stark reality which face us is precisely seeing what is to unfold if no consensus or compromise is acknowledged……… carrying on in our vile ways both personally and impersonally with the resultant which may be a question of ‘Awake humanity’ Pause Stop and reflect what may be done. Are we ready?