Climate change – Conjecture & Debate

The arguments and opinions from both “Climate Change” camps continues: to the left we have the ‘free radicals’ whose claims suggest that there are less than ten years before the entire planet and all creatures – great and small – who occupy her lands and waters are kaput. The far right, the big industry owners continue to push their own agenda and case for profiteering via the ongoing use of (finite) resources: both sides can deliver compelling rhetoric in order to perpetuate and sustain their stories – each to exclusion of the other, each to their own advantage. Others still – and these include indigenous stories not just the well-intentioned New Age commentators – will advise everything functions as part of a cycle and that there are spiraling cycles within other larger cycles: the earths elliptical orbit around the Sun and tilt of the earths axis as examples – all have invisible impact upon the environment and the ‘rodents’ living within it.

Speaking in Absolutes is always fraught.

When we are prepared to tell the whole story and not ‘cherry pick’ specific information – i.e. load our spiel to advantage our own presentation we will have to admit that we can’t really say for sure what the outcomes of the current/changing environmental conditions might produce. The science faction on the left will suggest that we can say with utmost certainty that the outcome will be dire and we can know this because we can return to the previous mass extinction events via geological record. Using these records and computer generated models will show the coming calamity is without doubt. Some of those who lean to the right believe that the earth was created in six days and on the seventh day GOD had a nap. The less fundamentalist debaters from these (right leaning) ranks will still load the discussion with some form of undeniable proof including that all resources on god’s green earth are meant to bring comfort and prosperity to god’s chosen few.

Opportunity knocks.

So while the sparring/warring commentators continue in the bid to win over the listening – mostly privileged – public the real offer goes begging. Anyone who is willing to look with honesty at the global situation: disparity between the haves and have nots, the chosen and the less important, could not be able to deny the ever so obvious: i.e. the way things are – are not the way things should be. The opportunity that is arising with the conjecture and debate (over the changes to global climate systems and the impact upon the natives) is the arrival of the third option: the coming together of the two currently separate sides and finding a new way forward. The likelihood of this occurring: is sadly I believe very remote. So ensconced in their own ‘rightness’ the fighters/the warring factions remain intent only on the delivery of facts at the expense of the truth and would rather continue to fight than take a step back: eat some humble pie, each to listen to the other.

Mortality and Adios

No matter which side of the debate we might find more appealing each of us has to understand the ultimate outcome. For the vast majority there was an event that occurred just after we came into this world: we took – or got given – our first breath. The last event before we die will be the other ‘bookend’ to the first event: the conclusion to our time on earth via the expiration of our life giving breath. Before the last event arrives the chance to reconcile the dispute is still available and this lack of reconciliation is what the fuss has always been about. The ongoing and seemingly ever widening chasm between all the different parts that comprise the total of the species Homo sapiens: ha the Wise Ape. Black/white, rich/poor, male/female right/wrong. These visible physical aspects and attributes are symptomatic of our inability to find Peace within. Chiron is the Wounded Healer archetype who brings with him the offer, the chance to mend the rift, the chance for healing. If we were really wise we would each and collectively accept the offer to make Peace and take the chance for the strong to care for the less fortunate, we would admit to our folly forgive ourselves and each other and begin from the beginning.