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ENVISIONING EARTH'S FUTURE

Tara: ancient earth, the sacred earth of our ancient ancestors.

Modern Planet Earth: The current mass vision of the future is, if we are to be honest with ourselves, very bleak. In the West, our culture continues to project a future based on the current and past abundance of the material age, based on fossil fuels, large, industrial cities, and 2.4 children families. However, this is a condition that, when scrutinized, is highly unsustainable.

To give an accurate perspective of the current status of the world, consider the graph below that shows the number of times the word "shortage" comes up on Google. Now, that is across the board, of course, and not related to any one area, but it gives an idea of the general trend we are experiencing globally.

The world we live in is soon to be altered in ways that most of humanity is not aware of, nor able to contemplate, so alluring is the illusion of modern comfort the "civilized" world lives within. America, Russia, Iran, and Israel are on the brink of nuclear war. The planet's ecosystems are nearing a state of crisis, during which nothing but extremes are experienced by the populations of nature--humankind being one. We see the escalations in all ways: droughts in some areas, floods in others. Nov. 1, 2007 over 500,000 people were displaced by flooding in Mexico. In October, hundreds of thousands were displaced by fires on the West Coast. The southeast American states are experiencing the worst drought in history. Places that are historically dry are swamped, and normally wet places are drying up! The extremes are being experienced around the globe, not just in America. Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, Africa--all over the globe we are seeing effects of planetary warming, extreme weather patterns, and looming disaster.

It is far too easy to put the blinders on and just go to work today and tomorrow like any other day. But the reality is collapsing in on every human being on Earth, and will soon be not only irrefutable, and undeniable, but unavoidable. It will affect each of us in ways we have not taken the time to imagine.

The question is: What will you do if the life you live today is threatened?

Will you be able to survive if the supplies that currently feed your local grocery store no longer make it?
if the gas that currently fills your cars is no longer available?
Consider what part of your life, if any, is under your absolute control--what aspects are autonomous, independent of the system?
Do you live within a social economic system that meets your currents needs and demands, but leaves you entirely dependent upon it?
What will happen if it begins to break down?
Do you live in a city?
What happens when the city is in jeopardy or threatened by outside energies (fire, storms, bombings, food shortages, etc)

All these eventualities are not just possible anymore, but more probably every day. As the US government's Wildland's program (link) continues to condense populations into the urban areas, more and more people are seeing the fragility of this existence. The power grid, for instance, failing in the event of brown and black outs, and natural disasters that bring key elements down and millions of people are without power.

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