OK so next week COP15 kicks off in Copenhagen and although Barack Obama is now attending the signs are that no binding agreements are going to be reached about lowering emissions. I hope I am wrong but the signs aren’t looking great at the moment. So will it be another bout of rhetoric, protectionism, silo mentalities, reality denials and posturing?

Well maybe, because I am going for some of it so look out for me there!
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And with some recent news about alleged suppression of evidence that may contradict the climate change argument that it is human caused, will there be a refuelling (pardon the pun) of the denial versus consensus argument about the causes and realities of climate change?

Well in one sense does that really matter, or more importantly is it actually the place to start?

For nobody seems to be thinking about exploring the nature of our relationship with the Planet and the moral, philosophical and possible spiritual considerations that are just as, if not more important, than winning the argument over the causes or not of climate change.

For even if human activity isn’t causing climate change to any significant degree, is it moral for us to continue to behave in such an irresponsible, arrogant, assumptive and dangerous way by treating the Earth, our host as a commodity?

Even if compelling and irrefutable evidence is produced to show conclusively that human activity isn’t causing climate change does that somehow excuse the continuing rape, pillage and plunder of the Earth’s resources and the erosion not only of the soils of the Earth but those of the future?

That’s a bit like saying that slavery is OK because it doesn’t cause climate change.

We need to change not what we DO as a first principle but what and how we think.

Because if we are going to talk quotas at COP15 there is only one statistic to remember and that is that there is only one Planet that we all share and there is no plan B.

We need to change our perception about our relationship with the Planet before we try and change our actions.
For we don’t live ON the Planet, we live IN it for the Earth’s atmosphere is an essential part of its living existence without which we are all a goner.

So will our relationship with the Earth change from being parasitic to symbiotic?

Our futures are inextricably linked.

Quotas won’t win the argument.
But reverence, humility, awe and wonder might.

So maybe pause for a moment and give thanks for your next breath before you speak at the Conference everyone, and realise there is something sacred we all share where both the future and the present are concerned.

Tony Kearney
www.whoownsthefuture.com
1/12/09

As a film technician, for me the most noticeable impact of climate change in Ireland has been the increasing wind speeds – in the past 18 months I’ve been on two commercials that were closed down because it was too windy to shoot; that had never happened to me in the previous 15 years. However, there are may be some positive side effects to this new phenomena, energy independence being chief among them.  (more…)

Apparently NASA in its infinite wisdom is about to deliberately crash land a rocket into the Moon to try and create a crater so they can find out more about the Moon.

What a great way to spend countless millions of dollars!
Never mind the other billions upon billions that have also been spent on countless other programmes over the years.

However don’t get me wrong, I do believe that we need to continue with a space exploration programme into the future, but perhaps one that is closer to home.

It is essential that we create spaces in our communities at every level from physical to spiritual so that we can discover different parts of ourselves that can give access and release to a different kind of future.

Part of this space programme (not the stupid one run by NASA!) is to create awareness of what is really important and what is going on in our communities to facilitate the shifts in consciousness that are needed to change our reality.

Our problem is that we have been living in the wrong reality for quite some time and this has led us to making wrong decisions and wrong actions.
And before you know it someone somewhere is authorising programmes to crash into the Moon!

We have an almost unlimited amount of space in our communities for well over 99% of each and every person is made up of space. We also have lots of space externally if we shift our values, goals and importances and reallocate some of these spaces to community groups and volunteers for them to create allotments, gardens and places of beauty and sustainability.

The only thing we need to do to allow this to happen is to create some space in our thinking.

To think it is to create it.

The place to do that is here on Earth for it is highly doubtful that NASA will find any good ideas inside the crater it creates on the Moon.

28/06/09