Dysfunctional Civilization
Hello World, Looking at our civilization today, there is a clear disconnect between how we think and how we interact with our surrounding environment and this beautiful planet -earth. Civilization today seems to be dysfunctional because it’s unable to admit any sense of loss connected with environmental deterioration of natural resources which humans are responsible for. Our civilization is holding ever more tightly to its habit of consuming larger and larger quantities every year of oil, gas, coal, water, fresh air, trees, plants, topsoil, and the thousand other substances we rip from the crust of the earth, transforming them into not just the sustenance and shelter we need but much more that we don’t need. We are producing huge quantities of pollution products for which we spend billion of dollars each year on advertising to convince people that we want, massive surpluses of products that depress prices while the products themselves go to waste, and diversions and distractions of every kind. We seem increasingly eager to lose ourselves in the forms of culture, society, technology, the media, all sorts of hype, and the rituals of production and consumption, but the price we pay is the loss of our spiritual lives. Picture: Earth on Fire The disharmony to our relationship to the earth, which stems in part from our addiction to a pattern of consuming ever-larger quantities of the resources of the earth, is now manifest in successive crises, each marking a more destructive clash between our civilization and the natural world: whereas all threats to the environment used to be local and regional, several are now strategic. Watch this video: Human impact on Earth 
The loss of two acres of rain forest every second, the sudden, thousandfold acceleration of the natural extinction rate for living species, the ozone hole above Antarctica and the thinning of the ozone layer at all latitudes, the possible destruction of the climate balance that makes our earth livable – all these suggest the increasingly violent collision between human civilization and the natural world. Many people seem to be largely oblivious of this collision and the addictive nature of our unhealthy relationship to the earth. But eduction is the cure for those who lack knowledge or understanding; much more worrisome are those who will not acknowledge these destructive patterns. Indeed, what worries me most is that many political, business, and intellectual leaders deny the existence of any such patterns in aggressive and dismissive tones. These powerful people serve as “enablers”, removing inconvenient obstacles and helping to ensure that the addictive behavior continues. The psychological effects of denial is complex. Denial is the strategy used by those who wish to believe that they can continue their addictive lives with no ill effects for themselves or others. Our relationship to the earth may never be healed until we are willing to stop denying the destructive nature of the current pattern. Human beings seemingly compulsive need to control the natural world may have derived from a feeling of helplessness in the face of our deep and ancient fear of “Nature red in tooth and claw“, but this compulsion has driven us to the edge of disaster, for we have become so successful at controlling nature that a we have lost our connection to it. Watch this video: Human Impact on Environment 
In our frenzied destruction of the natural world and our apparent obsession with inauthentic substitutes for direct experience with real life, we are playing out a script passed on to us by our forebears. However, just as the unwritten rules in a dysfunctional family create and maintain a conspiracy of silence about the rules themselves, even as the family is driven toward successive crises, many of the unwritten rules of our dysfunctional civilization encourage silent acquiescence in our patterns of destructive behavior toward the natural world. Picture: Love and Respect Nature The unprecedented assault on the natural world by our global civilization is also extremely complex. But in psychological term, our rapid and aggressive expansion into what remains of the wildness of the earth represents an effort to plunder from outside civilization what we can not find inside within ourselves. Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth, remove all of the coal, petroleum, and other fossil fuels we can find, then burn them as quickly as they are found – in the process filling the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other pollutants – is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into vulnerable parts of the natural world. Picture: Dynamic model of sustainability And the destruction by industrial civilization of most of the rain forests and old-growth forests is a particularly frightening example of our aggressive expansion beyond proper boundaries, an insatiable drive to find outside solutions to problems arising from a dysfunctional pattern within ourselves. Our beautiful planet: Earth
What we need to do know is to halt the destruction of the environment and to preserve and nurture our ecological system. What a functional civilization needs is a “central organizing principle” to be established globally to pull all people into a concerted effort to save this planet, the species which share this planet with us and the environment. We need deep love and understanding of earth now than ever. Although there is growing concern about protecting our environment, there is still lack of meaningful action to prevent global crisis created by human beings such as global warming, ozone depletion and chemical waste. Please help us protect this beautiful planet.
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