We are at an end of an era. Call our predicament Pluto in Capricorn. Our generation passes from a time of great faith and prosperity into an era of great turmoil and loss. During our lifetime: the earth has finally exceeded its human carrying capacity so that human activity has pushed the planet's oceans and land eco-systems into global environmental destruction; the world economy has exceeded its capacity to sustain our artificial way of modern life and will collapse of its own weight; and our elected leaders have finally lost their oligarchal ability to maintain the facade of a representative democracy. We are watching the inevitable results now. This generation shall finally reap what seeds prior generations have sown.Personally, all my precious beliefs have been shattered. I once trusted that parents knew best, that religious and academic leaders knew best, that political authorities knew best and wanted the best for all of us. But apparently, all was not right with the world. The truth is gradually being revealed to our generation: corruption, vanity, and deceit run rampant throughout all our formal institutions. Soon, something's got to give. When it does, will our generation give in to despair and repeat the violent patterns of self-centered predecessors; or will we transform ourselves and our world into a more harmonious vision for organizing human living arrangements?
This blog is my attempt to give personal witness to that question.
gylangirl
Never give up! Never surrender!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say the planet has hit its carrying capacity just yet. In a biological sense, that's when the population in sheer numbers exceeds the planet's ability to provide resources for it. What'll happen, especially with projected human population growth, is that we'll overshoot that ceiling, and then the population will crash, HARD, before coming down and achieving an equilibrium. Given that we're expected to hit another billion soon, we haven't quite gotten there. Estimates at the planet's carrying capacity are in between 12 and 20 billion depending on whom you ask.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the situation will be greatly exacerbated once you take into consideration the fact that we are being pretty irresponsible about taking care of our charge, i.e. - the planet Earth. There's only so much of it to go around, so we need to be better to it.
I feel your need to speak out and bear witness to the events surrounding you. Even though I suspect that some of your beliefs are different than mine, I think we're speaking from the same parts of our inner beings, and for similar reasons. In that, at least, we have a common ground, and I'm glad you have taken up your own torch.