Silenced hearts and futures

[Maïwa]

exerp from: www.getf.org/millennium/
How do you value a forest? Think of the things that are provided by forests: oxygen, shelter, shade, soil nutrients, wildlife habitat, anti-erosion barriers, wind breaks, timber for construction, fuel for heating and cooking, carbon-dioxide sinks, not to mention beauty. Yet, one-third of the US natural forestland has disappeared since the landing of the Pilgrims. Rainforest destruction is currently estimated at 78 million acres per year - an area larger than Poland. That translates to about 214,000 acres per day or an area larger than New York City. Learning to respect the value of these vital forest resources is an important life lesson for future generations.

The earth's carrying capacity is under increasing stress from its sheer number of inhabitants. Nearly eighty million people are added to the world population every year, putting additional stresses on our planet. By 2025, the world population, at current rates, will elevate to 8.6 billion with the largest impact felt in the urban centers of developing countries. The combined pressures of population growth and massive poverty will weigh heavily on our stewardship potential.

In some areas of our world, each day offers only a struggle of life and despair. Today, over 1.3 billion people worldwide live in the lowest poverty level existing on less than one dollar a day. Another 3 billion live on less than two dollars a day. More than 1.5 billion people in developing countries have no access to clean water. In these regions, there is often intense demand on natural resources which often translates into hunger, famine and even death. How can those that have so much contribute to the solution?

derived from my soul: Hopefully this subject takes enough of the cerebrals memory, to actually go towards a bettering of our lifestyles...Theirs no doubt where these people live does not help...But if that many lived here the rivers and lakes would be just as poluted and unavailable.With the everyday task of deforestation we do not better the chances of survival for the poor nor dp we accept that we are to stop procreating if we do not find the power to destroy power and not people and nature.

 To all good times but let us never forget where all these things we use come from...

   Whiteshadow

[Bushpig]

A stark reminder WS of what we all contribute to, sad indeed.  Myself im interested in permaculture, sustainable living and I hope to develop that furthur in the future, it remins a constain goal I strive towards.  I know horrendous destruction goes on in the rainforests, unimaginable almost ...its so bad.
   As an individual we cannot turn that round, the damage is done.  But we can start from home, look at ourselves and how we live and work on improving it.  That little extra effort to recycle ?  To look at our energy consumption, to buy fair trade.    Where you spend your money is probably more influential on world affairs than your vote methinks....start evaluating yourself, get out in the garden and get a love for it.  When you love the natural world you can see just how much pain we are inflicting upon this earth.


Boosh

[Bushpig]

The earth has bountiful resources, and if we could learn to live alongside and with nature this destruction could cease.  It involves stepping out of our comfort zones though, it involves people leaping forward and really going for what they know is right.  Theres so many people out there wanting a different way of living but as indivuals the barriers of money and land dont allow us to develop this.  The goverments dont often allow for it as you are almost stepping out of their cycle..and they wouldn't want that would they!
   Theres a way to do your bit....find it!


Booosh

[Maïwa]

Nice BushPig, and i do put time and sacrafice to it.Co-exiistance (survival)
is to share and not to tear, destroy. Everyones a bit to do, i just hope many of us will tend that way like a plant to the sun, and acknowledge truth.


 Indeed we all a common goal here, and it starts w/ everyone of us..
Sharing of knowledge and simple reminders help to keep that awarness, lifestyles often help to forget. I use my art and music especially to get the word out and represent my own harmony w/ the garden. The sacred smoke burns to its feet and echoes still hope and together we shall put back what wasnt ours, even if takes generations.
Cheers WS

[CJ]

Theres too many of 'us' It is a very simple fact(Factoid,asumption byme, my personal study) that human` s are poisoning the earth,in so many accumaltive and  positve re-inforced ways.

     Theres just too many of us,no matter what position or moral ground one may confort themselves with(ethneo Aya drinker, or ultraconservative republican)

30 or less years ago a group called Nectar(think they were Holland based) came out of nowhere, and did an excellent concept 'album'called 'Recycled'

     It blew me away,and by memory, still does,because of the truths that the Album song material covered, just waaaay before it`s time.

     On the Album front it shows a human body muscled, with a Xmas tree' for a head(symbol of hope) ,shoving a serpents tail down through the serpents mouth. the serpent itself was wrapped in the symbol used for infinity.

     On the back,were the two gods of humanity. Along with a lot of symbolism,the gods,male and female naked,were obviously in a state of starvation and sickness.

     We are going to pay. It will not be equal,as always there will be those who have more than others,and what they have will be more coveted as very existance of vast numbers of people come into the real shadow of anniliation

     I feel very bad for a future generation.But by the end,either we will be gone,or we will be in balance with the vessel that holds our existance. I am very grateful that I was born when such things were conjecture,and I so hope that we just might prove smarter and wiser than we have been,and the earth can forgive us without wild oscillations of unstable enviroment. There have been hints that way,natural proccesses counter acting the effects we have caused,but that is rreally too thin a rope to grasp to.

   Sevenor Eight generations down the road,I hope we are forgiven. Those who are left may be becoming genetically different anyway,we may simply become what was before the 'change'

     I`m sorry for my negativity. I didn`t make the world,and I do not want it to go this way.

[gnrm23]

eco-poet gary snyder has stated that the earth's carrying capacity is prolly optimaxed at between 1.5 & 2 billion...

and it is quite possible that the earth will "catastophically adjust" the number of humans to that number (or even below) by the end of the current century...

it is unfortunate that corporate projections (for happy $hareholders) are seldom past the next fiscal quarter, & almost never beyond the next fiscal year...

even in old marxist USSR, long-term vision was "five-year plan" ...

voices of wisdom (puppets of "the iiluminati") state that we cannot afford to invest in "the high frontier" & we musn't mandate population controls...
meanwhile, there's profits to be made (quarter by quarter) doling out the dwindling resources (with special attention to the needs of the "haves", with occasional sops to the masses of the "have nots"...)

this little mudbal/this beautiful green hills of earth/this body of the great mother ge --- here we are, with barely enough to go around (not quite enough to go around if all 6+ billion would live like eurovolk & amellicans!) & no way to get "more" --- energy & resources getting spent...

~

the earth appears to be a closed system - but look up...

the sun is cranking out more energy than we could ever harvest (well, if human descendents are willing to build a dyson sphere, maybe - heh...)
& more physical resources (just from mining "little chunks" floating between the orbits of the inner planets & the far oort cloud & dekuyper belts!) than we could use in millennia...







i'm ready - we can book a pod on the quito skyhook, debark on a geo-synched freighter/mining rig, fire up the torch drive & go cruisin' baby...
LET'S GO!!!

[CJ]

I`m right with you ,gnrm23. But we have to To get going soon. We won`t last long enough without a change of mindset.

But it may happen that way ,anyway. More determined by how we are made,than what I think. To see over the next hill. Past the next river. Leave this valley for another. It`s in our blood. It`s what caused us to leave Africa. And we will change with the circumstances,if we are not al ready then changing ouselves. And look at the last thousand or so years,is something happening ,anyway?

     The next direction is up. But our state of being is perilous. We don`t bode well being an 'infection'. We learn, or simply move on(hopfully learning anyway and) we go on to our Maker.

     Here,and There.

[Maïwa]

True indeed guys.
We display alot of points here, i must add,  the approach we take and have taken throughout thousands of years so many cultures have arisen to the sun and elements of astronomy.
 The Mayan calender which we go by now ends one day.
The fifth sun , the Golden Era arises, this calender has 1 354 500 years in it.
Started 3500 B.C . Ends december 21 2012. They also precisely stated that this was due to solar cycle, and thius cycle makes the earths poles switch.The ideal would be migration, well in that case .lol

And CJ , no worries about negativity , its but the truth you speak.

Migration has always been a way of survival for many of us and many species on this world.  Space exploration is indeed a human way of  of expressing migration, but in the bigger image. The earth , it is siad, could restore itself if we were to leave it  7 years without our involvements and ressource exploitations.

 We shall see how the wise of the day decide as we prepare.
Ive seen enough the smoke of the sacred burn to its feet.
Every steps starts by us everyone, we all help and can even more to better our futures and our co-existance with this planet we come from.
Weve to start helping here before we run off to continue elsewhere, but we are going towards the stars like plants to the sun no doubt...

  Hers some info on that mayan calender:


The Maya kept time with a combination of several cycles that meshed together to mark the movement of the sun, moon and Venus. Their ritual calendar, known as the Tzolkin, was composed of 260 days.The Classic Mayan civilization was unique and left us a way to incorporate higher dimensional knowledge of time and creation by leaving us the Tzolkin calendar. The Mayans invented the calendars we use today. The present calendars ends in the year 2012.

By tracking the movements of the Moon, Venus, and other heavenly bodies, the Mayans realized that there were cycles in the Cosmos. From this came their reckoning of time, and a calendar that accurately measures the solar year to within minutes.

The "Calendar Round" is like two gears that inter-mesh, one smaller than the other. One of the 'gears' is called the tzolkin, or Sacred Round. The other is the haab, or Calendar Round.  The Tzolkin consisted of 13 months each 20 days long, and the Haab of 18 months each 20 days long, and five rest days, thus making 365 days. The date was written using both rounds. For example, "6 lk 10 Camber" might be the same as if we wrote "20 June 30 Gemini." (Haab - Calendar round / 20 June, and Tzolkin - Sacred round / 30 Gemini.) As both thesewheels turned so passed the Mayan years. Every 52 years the cycle began again. It was on one of these auspicious years that Cortez landed, thus giving credence to his god image.

A steadily quickening flow of earth changes has become so apparent in 1995 that even traditional media are paying attention. Earth transformation was the cause of celebration of the Harmonic Convergence initiated by Jose & Lloydine Arguelles in August, 1987, and the Time Shift on July 26, 1992. The Time Shift marked the time in history when the planet entered a new sequencing of energy that after a magnetic pole shift in 2000, will be complete in December, 2012. With the energy sequencing complete in 2012, Timeship Earth will launch her voyage into fourth dimensional time in 2013.





The sky on December 21st, 2012 A.D.
showing a rare astronomical alignment -
the winter solstice sun is right in the
"dark rift" in the Milky Way.


info derived from :http://www.crystalinks.com/may.html

 Cheers Whiteshadow Of the Damp Lands