When I was a child I would watch the smoke belching out of the huge chimneys that I could see from my bedroom window and wonder, where does it go? Now I know, it goes nowhere. It has become very clear that due to our carelessness, we have upset the balance of nature and payback time is fast approaching.

Climate Change is an expression I do not like. It is to tidy. What this expression covers, is the fact the one species of life upon this planet is actually very close to destroying all. Yes us, Human Beings. The Crown of creation. How did this happen? Overnight while we slept? Because we voted in the wrong politicians? No, we have been traveling this road for a very long time and now here we are in this situation.

It seems clear that there is only one species of life on this planet that is completely out of harmony with creation, but have we actually even now, understood that fact? We really need leadership, inspired leadership right now. I,m sorry but sorting the rubbish and buying a smaller car will not be enough. We have to change radically our way of life and our expectations. Do you know that the way of life we have come to expect in the west is actually impossible for all of mankind? That there are simply insuffiecent resources on this planet for all to share this way of life we consider normal in the developed world?

We humans seem to have a uniqueness in that we do not take only that which we need, but that which we want. It is a distinction that sets us apart from all the life forms with whom we share this planet? So much of the evolution of mankind has been driven by want, by greed and by selfishness and it seems to me that we took the wrong turn years ago, many, many years ago. We assumed, so long ago that it did not matter how we lived. That the world was a huge thing capable of absorbing whatever mess we created in our trail.

We did not know. Our parents brought us up within values they thought to be correct. Get a good education, career. Find a nice lady, make a family. No one considered that we were going the wrong way. That the way of life that we were perpetuating was in actual fact insustainable, wrong and lost. Somehow a very long way back we detached ourselves from the very world that we live upon and in reality share and depend upon with countless life forms that even now we are in many ways ignorant of.

No mankind has lived apart from and has separated itself from nature and the rest of creation. Have we learnt enough to reverse our current direction? Have we become humbled sufficiently to change our ways, I mean really change our ways? Take only that which we need rather than that which we want, desire, or crave? No clearly we have not individually changed that much at all and in reality these changes, if they are to happen will take generations to come about. Do we have that time?

So we must rely upon our political leaders the chiefs of industry and scientists to fix the problem, but wait a minute, are these not the very people instrumental in leading us down a path of unsustainable lifestyle and unsustainable growth?

There is a theory that the earth is itself a sentient being and that it will ultimately protect itself and strive to maintain a balance, could this be true? Have you noticed that the weather has changed? It is almost as an effort to dissipate the pollution and poison we are pumping out, spread it, weaken its effect. Now if this belief, or theory is true we have a big problem. The root and cause of our problems lie not with sea life, nor any of the countless millions of lifeforms with whom we share this planet. No the problem lies with us, the Human Race. If this theory is true we have a big,big problem?

How did we become so? why have we evolved in such an unbalanced and lop sided way. Why for so long have we not been able to see the dangers in our reckless and careless attitude to our planet and all life upon it? It is as a species we have evolved in an incomplete way. Whilst intellectually and technologically we have advanced so rapidly, it seems that our spiritual & awareness capabilities are still somewhere back in the Stone Age.

Would an enlightened advanced species merrily cut through the very branch of the tree they sit on? There are many definitions of intelligence, different people measure this quality in different ways and yet, surely there can be a concensus of stupidity. Is this not an act of the greatest stupidity? Has this not been what in fact the human race has been doing for countless generations?

I personally believe that there is a solution, that a balance will be restored and that this creation is to magnificent to be destroyed. My fear is that mankind may not play such a large part of this restoration.....