Now most of this post is inspired by www.lyved.com but i have been feeling some of the things for a long time but haven't quite formulated a definite opinion on it, which is probably for the better.
The first half will be somewhat of a continuation from yesterday's blog. The second half is no doubt controversial and many people in the world would not like what i say in this half but i feel it is necessary.
Dreams
Now like many of you, I have dreams. Fantastic dreams that are a mixture of both the possible and the impossible. My dreams are:
- To run/own my own business
- To be able to fly
- To see the world
- To see the Universe and walk amongst the stars
- To travel through time
- To push the boundaries of science and knowledge further
- To learn as much as is humanly possible or more i really don't mind
- To get married and have kids
- To write something for tv, film or a novel
- To be successful
As you can see a number of different dreams quite a few of them seem virtually impossible by the limits of science at the present time.
Most people at this time of year are setting resolutions for the next year to either improve themselves or to make their dreams a reality. Now most of the above mentioned dreams are too many for one year and too many to have a go all at once but to start a few would be a good goal for the year.
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Now the second half is a lot less happy. There are millions of people who will hate me for saying what I am about to write. As much as I hate what I am about to write as well, I believe that it needs to be said and needs to be discussed sooner rather than later. Later may be too late.
Nature's Revenge
We all know unless we've being living in a cave that the planet is warming up. This warming is resulting in more hurricanes across the south east coast of America and other parts of the world, severe flooding and tsunamis.
Why is nature doing this, why is the planet doing this, you may ask. With good reason as well. You may think you live well, your not harming the environment, your green, you treat other humans well. Wrong.
By simply being alive we are harming the planet, not just through how much carbon dioxide your lifestyle pumps into the atmosphere. You harm it by wasting its resources. The desk you are sitting at with your computer and printer was once a nice happy tree living in a forest somewhere with all its tree mates. The paper you use was also once a happy tree, possibly part of the same tree that gave you, your desk. The desk I'm typing at right now was once a tree.
A quote from Agent Smith in the Matrix, i think describes us possibly the best:
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realised that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same patter. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."
We aren't quite a virus. We do walk around this planet as if we are God. There is a widlife reserve in Scotland, i believe who re-introduced deer to the surrounding without re-introducing any predators so the deer grew and grew in numbers and in an effort to make sure that the deer didn't get too many in number for the environment, we killed them.
Now humans don't have any predators but who is regulating our numbers? Nobody. Which is why nature sets about trying to but is so far unsuccessful because our medicine is too good. Trillions of people should die each year but get saved due to modern medicine. A lot of people have viruses that are killing them but we save them and the virus keeps on infecting people and people carry on living.
There is one solution to eradicating the virus - let the people die. If we let all the people with HIV and Aids die there is no more HIV, we trim the population down by a few million and the government saves money because the NHS doesn't have to pay for the pills to save them.
There is the whole thing of human rights to get around with and the whole fact they deserve to live but so does every animal on this planet - yet we'll happy put them down if they are too ill and will cost the government millions of pounds to keep them alive. We happily kill animals every year but one human life, no thats a no no.
Every human, animal and plant life on this Earth and in this Universe is worth the same. A dog's life is worth the same as a human life.
Why do we humans believe that we are better than the animals on this planet? If anything we are not. People may think we are more intelligent but are we really? A dog can understand other dogs and humans and for that matter can probably understand cats as well. Who can we understand, us! Does that sound like we are the more intelligent being?
You may say we are more intelligent because we trash nature's landscape with horrible highrises and roads, we have computers, we can go into space. Well think of it this way a dog probably doesn't care. Ask them about space they'll give you a Catherine Tate answer, "Space, bovvered? I ain't bovvered about no space!" that's if you can understand a dog's bark.
Nature is striking back and it doesn't care who it kills. Rich, poor, black, white, clever, dumb, human, dog, fish, plants. All i know is that you'll have to be good at adapting when the time comes. It may help if your clever because then you can get away from Earth. It may help if you are physically fit, may not, may help if your fat, may not. I can't tell you the best way to survive nature's revenge, all i know is that its coming and only the best will survive. We are about to see Evolution in progress, if you can survive, that is.
