LOVE GAIA, OUR MOTHER EARTH

A former classmate sent this remarkable video to me recently. Can you imagine the significance of reducing the plastics that haunt our waterways and landfills all over the planet? And while we are at it, produce another form of renewable energy? The dialogue is in Japanese, so you may wish to turn your audio off and read the text on the screen. However, I found the gentleman's voice very soothing.

We have heard how the carbon emissions coming from our industrialized world are increasing the tear in the ozone layer, causing most of the problems of global warming. There is a compelling report in the online Science Daily website outlining the latest news on the ozone layer and its effects on the planet Ozone Holes News. Our understanding of this is necessary when we decide which candidates we wish to represent us in government - on both the local and national levels. Asking or researching their stance on environmental issues is critical.

We know we exhale carbon dioxide with every breath, and as the world's population continues to grow, along with more industrialization and automobiles, so does the carbon pollution. One of the larger producers of carbon pollutants is the plastic industry. Recently, a CBS news report told how one company is turning carbon emissions into plastic! I was fascinated; so I did some research, and came up with this short video on the subject:

The name of the California-based company is Newlight Technologies. The two young founders of the company worked on this discovery for nearly ten years. There is a good article on them and their company on the USA Today website: Plastic Made from Pollutants.

I think both of these discoveries are profoundly important to saving the planet. Environmentalists should be all over them. We should be supporting this type of research and development posthaste. 

For my religious/spiritual readers, the following statement on stewardship was made by the Roman Catholic Church in 1988:

"The earth and all life on it is a gift from God given us to share and develop, not to dominate and exploit. Our actions have consequences for the rights of others and for the resources of the earth. The goods of the earth and the beauties of nature are to be enjoyed and celebrated as well as consumed. We have the responsibility to create a balanced policy between consumption and conservation. We must consider the welfare of future generations in our planning for and utilization of the earth’s resources."

And from Pope Benedict XVI in 2007:

"Care of water resources and attention to climate change are matters of grave importance for the entire human family."

Common sense tells us we cannot continue destroying all aspects of nature without dire consequences. We only have one planet earth, and I for one am not pleased by the thought that someday our future generations may have to travel to another planet to survive.

Peace and love,

Marilyn