Easter Blessings

A copy of Richard Heinberg's new book, Peak Everything has arrived on our coffee table. To summarize: the 20th century was the century of abundance and the 21st will be the century of declines. And not just oil but food, human population, uranium and potable water. And not a moment too soon for this out of control death culture. It's just too bad that we aren't more responsible tenants of this earth.

We'll also hit peak greenhouse gas emissions which thereafter will decline. Hopefully we'll have avoided transforming Earth into Venus as the climate rebalances itself; technology can't do it, only time.

Since my eyes were opened, I've always dreaded climate change and the rising temperatures and crazy weather that will accompany it. Most people stupidly only see warmer temperatures in places like Canada as a positive thing. I guess I thought that somehow humans would remain unchanged by climate change, being able to resist it, and that other living things would slowly disappear being both murdered by humans and displaced by changing climates.

But climate change is like a fever to reject an unwanted illness.

Heinberg helped me to see that climate change is the earth attempting to remove or force change on a disobedient child. Change or die humans. Inshallah, there will always be life on this earth whether next to volcanic vents on the deep ocean floor or shivering in the dark winters of Antarctica. Civilized humans won't be able to resist forever and one day even after hundreds of thousands of years the earth will restore itself.

And wonderfully I managed to tie this entry to Easter. Hope you've had a good one. Remember spring is coming!