Gaia is speaking. Pictures of passengers stranded in airports are not what this is about. The frustrations of people not being able to move across and in or out of Europe with the convenience they are used to is not what this is about. Ash in the sky is not what this is about. Even the impressive images of fire and smoke spurting forth from the magical glacial mountains of Iceland is not what this is about.
People keep talking about 2012, and about Nostradamus' predictions that shortly before the "end of the world" there will be more and more natural disasters. I'm not sure that I believe it will be the destruction of us or the planet, but there is something rumbling deep in the belly of our mother.
I actually think it's quite simple. I too am guilty of wasting energy, burning and drinking the natural resources of our planet by leaving lights burning, using fuel inefficiently, flying across the Channel at my whim, buying those bananas that were flown in from Spain and throwing out the packaging which took energy to produce and takes energy to deal with as waste. Each and every one of us is.
And it's not like we don't know it.
It's quite simple. It's time we simplified everything, start getting more creative about our energy needs and energy use, start moving across the globe in lighter and simpler ways, start eating locally, start behaving like the intelligent creatures we actually are. As in, right now, right this minute.
It's time. Gaia is speaking. And she knows us well enough to know she can do it subtly, slowly to start with and that we may just listen. And she also knows us well enough that if we don't listen, she only has to light the spark she has already set off. And we'll all call it a disaster and feel sorry for ourselves. But she is letting us know right now we just have to listen and act.
Gaia is talking to us in no uncertain terms. That's what this is about. Are you listening?
I've had a lot of comments from people about this post. Let me qualify it a bit: I am not asserting that volcanos erupting are a result of our environmental behaviour. It's not cause and effect. I was merely hearing the voice of our mother in the rumblings of this, and many other recent "disasters".
ReplyDeleteIn fact it's less about our imapct on the eart and more about her impact on us. The vastness of her energy, the impact she has on our daily meandering lives, is something that deserves our respect. That's the message I am hearing, nothing more.