Yes, most of my posts are aimed at personal development and the state of affairs in our culture, but today I want to discuss an incredible show I saw this week, Earth 2100. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to see it on ABC, go to their website and catch some glimpses into the show.
When I first started watching it, I was not sure whether I really liked the approach they took to telling the story. I was wrong. It was a very creative way to keep me from falling into the trance of watching a “TV Show” or “Movie” and kept in the present to the information that was being shared.
Along with the doom and gloom was the amazing job we have done to create technologies to present such an outcome. But the thing that really caught me was that so much of this is based on economics! Money? How can we as a species, that one species not hundreds separated by borders, allow our governments and large corporations let the Earth be devastated by climatic global change because it costs too much? I am assuming they understand that they too cannot escape the effects of climate change, lost crops, food shortages, drought, rising oceans, famine, disease and so much more. Profits will not buy them out of this.
I think we really need to ask ourselves and our individual governments; “What needs to be done?” Demanding that they begin working together to find the solutions to these global problems and take action. If they can’t get around the financial dilemma, then perhaps they can decide on a percentage of each country’s gross national budget to be set aside into a united world technology fund that is used to start making the needed changes throughout the world.
We are a species that waits until we no longer have a choice before we move on a solution. WHAT WILL BE THE EVENT THAT FORCES OUR HAND? WILL IT BE TOO LATE WHEN WE REALIZE FINALLY TAKE ACTION?
