Most politicians and all governments simply do not understand that fact!
There cannot be infinite economic growth!
The world has limited resources, yet humankind is governed by an extractive mentality, encouraged by those in power to continue extracting the Earth’s resources, regardless of the cost to the next generation…never mind future generations!
The problem is so big, that it requires one to change everything about the way one thinks, lives and interacts with the world.
The problem with our current thinking and those who lead us further into the mire, is that denial is the natural response.
Those young enough now will look back on this era when food and energy prices soared, as the world population surged.
The time when tornadoes ploughed through cities, killing and devastating people and homes and sometimes whole communities.
A time when floods swept away life and homesteads, as droughts wrecked harvests, while governments aided and abetted the corporations that sought to control our food.
A time when populations were displaced by continuous disasters that those in government did little to avert or help communities recover from!
Those alive will ask, “what were they thinking?”
”The only answer can be denial,” argues Paul Gilding, Australian environmentalist and former executive director of Greenpeace International.
Gilding writes about this crisis in a new book called The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World.
”We are heading for a crisis-driven choice…
We either allow collapse to overtake us or develop a new sustainable economic model…
The weather has been extremely dry over recent weeks.
Bush fires are raging in counties Donegal and Mayo as I write.
There can be no more wavering on the issue of climate change…it is real!
There are very low levels of water in my spring well so I have to ration water use in the cottage.
Rain is promised for the middle to end of the week…bring it on!
Colours of the Copper Beech trees are deepening along the bank at the back of the cottage.
Planting deciduous trees like these will ensure that soil is not eroded and the land is protected from monsoon type rains which are becoming more frequent here in Ireland.
Ireland, once known for its soft rain…
There is a distinct canopy emerging at Bealtaine, a forest garden is taking shape, and with it a magical landscape.
I see permaculture more and more as the only real solution to the massive environmental devastation that is happening across the globe.
The Earth needs to be re-forested…fast!
There are 60 fire engines out across N.Ireland this evening fighting wild fires on the hills.
Some homes in Donegal have already been evacuated.
It is difficult to come to terms with this freakish weather on May 1…except that extreme weather in Ireland is no longer freakish and more and more the norm., Worrying!