How to save the planet

Let’s be honest, when we talk about saving the planet we don’t really mean the planet. After all the planet will look after itself, it has for the billions of years it’s already been around. We don’t even really mean how to save the amazing, glorious, generous ecosystem that is nature. What we really mean is how do we save ourselves! Somehow we’ve divorced ourselves from both the planet and nature. It’s as if we see our planet as a pyramid with us at the top, lording it over everything else below us as if we aren’t part of nature at all, seeing ourselves as separate. What we seem to have forgotten is that we need this world, this earth, this nature. And we need it more than it needs us! There’s an interesting film on YouTube that looks at what would happen if humans just disappeared, you know all of us were just not here anymore. What the film points to are the negative things that would happen if we just upped and left in the beginning. The nuclear reactors that would meltdown, the farm animals and pets that would starve, the nature that would be destroyed. But very soon into what we might think is a disaster, because we’re no longer around, the planet begins to heal. Over time you’d never know we’d been here. So, it’s not the planet we need to save. It’s us. And to save us, we need to make some changes otherwise, things will get messy and challenging and we may not make it as a species. There are ...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Life ecology Source Type: news