Creating Earth Community
Hello World, This is a second post in a series to “Dysfunctional Civilization”. The first post can be found at this link:http://protectearth.org/2011/dysfunctional-civilization/ It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed – the planet, however, which we (human species) have abused to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of industrial exploitation. This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century. When the agricultural civilizations began some ten thousand years ago, the human disturbance of the natural world was begun in a serious way. It may be said in general that these early Neolithic and the later classical civilizations had some deleterious effects on the regions they occupied. The extent varied according to geographical location and cultural traditions, but in the larger perspective the damage was sustainable. 
Progress of Humankind In our times, however, human cunning has mastered the deep mysteries of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples. We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products. We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil and pesticides onto the fields until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage and garbage, the seas with oil – all this in a kind of intoxication with our power for devastation at an order of magnitude beyond all reckoning. We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second. Watch this video: The destruction of Earth by Human Race And why? To increase the volume and speed with which we move natural resources through consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap. Our managerial skills are measured by the competence manifested in accelerating this process. If in these activities the topography of the planet is damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for a multitude of living species, then so be it. We are, supposedly, creating a technological wonderworld. It is not easy to know how to respond to this attitude; its consequences are so overwhelming. We must, however, reflect on what is happening. It is an urgent matter, especially for those of us who still live in a meaningful, even a numinous, earth community. We have not yet spoken. Nor even have we seen clearly what is happening. The issue goes far beyond economics, or commerce, or politics, or an evening of pleasantries as we look out over a scenic view. Something is happening beyond all this. We are losing splendid and intimate modes of divine presence. We are, perhaps, losing ourselves. Not only are we bringing about the extinction of life on such a vast scale, we are also making the land and the air and the sea so toxic that the very conditions of life are being destroyed. As regards, basic natural resources, not only are the nonrenewable resources being used up in a frenzy of processing, consuming, and disposing, but we are also ruining much of our renewable resources, such as the very soil itself on which terrestrial life depends on. Watch this video: Deep Ecology
So what’s wrong? Most often we think of the natural world as an economic resource, or as something of passing interest for its beauty on an autumn day when the radiant colors of the oak and maple leaves give us a moment of joy. All these attitudes are quite legitimate, yet in them all there is what might be called a certain trivializing attitude. If we were truly moved by the beauty of the world about us, we would honor the earth in a profound way. We would understand immediately and turn away with a certain horror from all those activities that violate the integrity of the planet. Watch this video: Various issues related with Earth Stop abusing our beautiful planet, natural resources and other species. What we need is to create earth community which appreciates natural world rather than building concrete jungles. Connect with nature, respect earth and protect other species on this planet. Thank you. 
