SUSTAINABILITY
NOTE. I wrote much of this in the early 1990s after my UFO encounter. Most of the figures I quoted are now much worse.
For example C02 emissions by the USA, was 1000 million tons and is now 5000 million tons. Population of Shanghai I quoted as 20 million, its now 30 million.
As I have mentioned before “contactees” tend to look at the world in a holistic manner on a daily basis. This view is similar to looking at the Earth from space. What I see is an inventive and curious race going about its business in a sheep like fashion, dictated to and by the corporate giants on an ever increasing level. It is only in recent times that the world has become crowded. 20 million people live in Shang-hai, 23 Million in Mexico City. The world population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. The population in 1600 AD was only about 500 million. The last doubling (1950-1987) of our population took only these thirty seven years!
To add to that, our way of living has completely changed. The invention of electricity and the combustion engine (not commonly used until the 1900s) and all their side effects, has within a tiny fraction of history turned us into mega consumers. What happens when the rest of the world catches up, and they are rapidly, with the Western way of living? We already have problems ranging from a lack of fresh water, air, land and sea pollution, icecaps and glaciers melting, to behavioural problems of drug abuse, violent crime, dietary problems, stress, disrespect and the shark world of business in general. Again there is plenty of material on these subjects via web sites on the environment, climate and pollution for example so I won’t ramble on.
Not so many years ago you would be laughed at for suggesting that we would be paying good money for a plastic bottle of water or that we would throw $1.15 for a burst of oxygen to get us through the day, as happens for example in Mexico City. On an everyday level I think we should be concerned and perhaps try to think more about the whole rather than our own little world. We can make a difference.
Some interesting facts:
The United States, in all its wisdom, is the largest polluter per capita in the world throwing out one thousand million tons of carbon dioxide per year. shortly to be overtaken by China. Greenhouse gases have risen by forty percent over the last century. These are expected to rise by another 50% over the next 25 years. According to recent scientific reports, the current levels of CO2 and methane in our atmosphere are higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years!! Also that the rise in sea levels are twice as fast as previous centuries.
We have dumped one hundred million tons of toxic waste into the Danube. Just one example out of hundreds.
Lake Bakail which contains a fifth of the worlds fresh water has been under serious threat from pollution. The Kola Peninsula contains one fifth of the worlds nuclear waste. The Caspian, The Black, The Baltic, The Mediterranean and The North Seas are examples of large bodies of water suffering from high pollution levels.
The Japanese log five million trees from Sarawat every year equivalent to two thousand square miles of forest. Eighty percent of the forest in Madagascar has been destroyed along with many rare species. The worlds tropical forests are disappearing at the alarming rate of 74,000 acres per day. They contain perhaps as many as half of all known animal and plant species. Thousands of square miles of this ancient ecosystem have been sacrificed in order to provide cheap hamburgers!
As I write this over one million acres of forest are burning in Brazil. Every year an area of forest the size of Wales is cut down to be farmed for the Soya crop which is exported around the world to feed poultry!! China’s consumption of timber is expected to grow by 33% over the next five years from 94 million cubic meters to 125 million cubic meters becoming the largest consumer on the planet. see link
I remember the astronaut Robert Overmyer’s observation as he orbited the planet, “Africa looked ill.”
We are pumping 600 million tonnes of CO2 into our atmosphere every year via air travel alone!! see link
Cloud seeding is becoming more common to combat droughts. This involves using rockets fired into the sky or chemicals dropped from aircraft in a bid to induce rainfall. China’s recent drought which has affecting millions of people is being combated by exactly this method. The Chinese government announced at the beginning of 2010 that it had initiated hundreds of cloud seeding operations in the region in recent months.
The world is consuming 80 million barrels of oil every day.
There is not a shortage of food globally at the moment, it is just unevenly distributed and badly managed. Almost half of food produced globally is wasted. This wastage causes problems with increased land fill, toxic emissions such as CO2 and methane. The energy consumed for the manufacture and importation of food products, including packaging, could be far better utilised either by recycling of food waste or saving energy in the first instance with less production. On a moral and humanitarian level, the food that is wasted could feed over 4 million people.
So where are we heading? What do people believe our goals are?
We are living in an age of technological revolution, a roller coaster that cannot be stopped. This materialistic thinking is both addictive and dangerous in its own right. I feel that we are losing sight of our balance with nature, our self awareness and our spirituality.
Everything is happening so quickly that few people are questioning the possible
consequences of these developments. The men that first put the motor car on our roads surely could not foresee the problems that we are facing today regards pollution and traffic congestion.
Have we moved on from that naive state of thinking? Unfortunately looking around the world today I would have to say no. The advancement in technology over the last one hundred and fifty odd years is unprecedented. Discoveries that have changed our perception of the world and altered our daily lives.
We have seen the advent of radio, radar, manned flight, the automobile, television, telephone, computers, space travel, satellites and nuclear fission, to name but a few. Many of these discoveries were developed more rapidly because of war such as the radar, penicillin and the atomic bomb. Most of our technology is of a commercial nature. It is not on the whole beneficial to humans and their thinking.
With all this amazing technology we still have not countered war, famine, stress, greed, violence, dishonesty, poverty and crime. Surely these are the important issues to overcome. Technology is only a tool. It is our ‘thinking’ that determines how we appropriate this knowledge in order to solve these problems.
If we are to advance as a human race then there has to be some real discrimination between technological advancement and the general welfare of the planet and its people. What is the rush after all. Are we any more content now than at any other time. Discoveries will always be made as long as humankind is around and that is the dilemma.
We have enough nuclear armaments to wipe all life off the planet several times over. Sooner or later they will be used accidentally or otherwise. The nuclear industry is a good example of our limited thought process. Humans have never been free from accidents or miscalculations. Chernobyl was a lesson to us all.
The Metsamer reactor in Armenia designed in 1958 and considered unsafe by the international experts was closed down in 1989 due to a devastating earthquake in the region. It was switched on again in November 1995 due to pressure from the population that relied on its electricity during freezing winters. Never before had a reactor been returned to action after such a long period of closure. The experts were predicting a disaster. The production of germ warfare products is equally as dangerous in my mind, accidents happen, things escape. The only difference is this stuff is silent!
Another more recent example of industrial catastrophe was the 2005 explosion at a chemical plant in North East China which resulted in 100 tons of toxic benzene spilling into the Songhua river which is the main source of drinking water. This resulted in 3.8 million people in the Jilin province being without water for 4 days. It eventually reached the Sea of Japan and Russia adding to the general pollution of our oceans.
Both the United States and Britain have dumped concrete containers of nuclear waste at sea.
In the Pacific in 1954 the first superbomb was exploded. The fallout was far worse than scientists had predicted and over seven thousand square miles were seriously contaminated.
One of the fission products that is particularly dangerous to life is known as Strontium 90. This did not exist in any detectable quantity on Earth until the Uranium atom was fissioned in the 1940s. But within a generation it was found to be incorporated in the bones of every human being on Earth, in fact in all vertebrates.
An newspaper article from the Daily Mail, 4th April 1959 reported the following:
“ATOM DUST FALLS IN APRIL SHOWERS
Fall-out from the stratosphere of radioactive dust after the Russian ‘dirty’ atomic tests in the Arctic last October, is reaching the U.S. with growing intensity. This was disclosed today by Dr. Williard Libby, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, who has been studying latest fall-out reports. It is too early to say whether the fall-out will push up the Strontium-90 content of food to danger level, but Dr. Libby does not this it will.
The new information from sampling of April showers and from U.S. Navy air-filtering stations suggests that cities in the latitude of Minneapolis are getting the heaviest doses of the Russian dust.
Dr Libby has estimated that the Soviet’s October tests doubled the Strontium-90 and other radioactive hazards then in the stratosphere from earlier tests. He estimates that fall-out in the stratosphere normally takes about six years to descend, uniformly all over the worlds. But he cites a new theory that fall-out from Polar explosions may come down in less than a year.”
The Nobel Peace prize winner Linus Pauling argued that the fallout from a single super-bomb may cause one hundred thousand deaths from Leukemia and cancer not to mention genetic problems. So after many tests carried out by the U.S.S.R, Britain, USA, China and France, a treaty was signed in 1963 by the three chief powers to ban the explosion of nuclear devices in the atmosphere, in space and underwater, but not sadly, underground. Both China and France refused to sign and continued to test.
Have you heard of HAARP? if not I suggest that you take a look at this dangerous project. Has the recent 2010 earthquake activity got anything to do with this?
The main powers all deploy nuclear submarines. Accidents have already occurred
with these. As long as they exist we can be sure that other disasters loom
precariously around the corner. In 1989 a USSR nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea it contained two torpedoes armed with nuclear warheads. As far as I am aware they are still there. As a race we must push for a total ban. Science maybe at its highest point since humans evolved but is it wise?
More than fifty thousand compounds that do not occur naturally on the planet have been dispersed into our environment. We do not know the resulting effects that many of these chemicals will have now or in the future. What we do know is the damage already done to the atmosphere, our waterways and our soil. It has been announced that the Ocean’s acidity has risen by one third over the last 200 years endangering a whole range of the food chain. What then do we believe we are doing? Is this the sort of legacy we want to hand to our future generations? Since 1991 the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the U.S. government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.
World population at the present time is increasing by almost one hundred million per year. The equivalent of the population of the USA every two and a half years. These newcomers to our planet and thought systems will be influenced by our material thinking and if we are not careful, will join us in committing an unintentional suicide of the human race.
More importantly the migration of the world population to urban areas is growing dramatically and, according to a World Health Organization report (April 2010) now over half of the population live in cities.
Unless we can demonstrate that this materialistic thinking serves us and the rest of nature then I believe it is time for a re-evaluation of what we believe to be progression. It is the quality of life that is important not quantity. To be able to walk along a beach free from oil, plastic, glass, fishing nets and sewage, to have a clean environment, to be able to live life without the fear of being raped, robbed, mugged, cheated or murdered. A world that is safe for children, where violence shown in the media is a rarity. In fact where the media in general assume far more responsibility than they do today, especially the advertising trade who in general have no regard to the products they push and where dangerously addictive drugs are a thing of the past or at least we be taught “everything in moderation”.
All of these things can be achieved through redirection of our energies, through education and by becoming more aware of the inner self, with nature and with spirit. We are all responsible for the state of our world. It is up to all of us to instigate the necessary changes and alter the way that we think.
I am so sad when I look out at my own street, the dog shit, the litter, the young teens pushing their designer prams, fag in hand, the dealers, the car discotheques, the young thugs, the apathetic and discontented and those that just don’t care because, I’m all right Jack. But how can you expect them to behave when the politicians lie and cheat and when the system still operates with boom and bust scenario, despite all the promises. When there are no jobs and when immigration policies have been a disaster. When hard earning savers and tax payers have to bail out banks due to greed and corruption and when the benefit system supports so many unjustly. How do you expect these people to act?
It is science, used as a tool in conjunction with a new approach of our thinking that can transform our lives. Is the conquering of space more important than the health of our people? Apart from the astronomical costs every time a launch is made a vast amount of pollution is placed into our atmosphere. We already have a problem with space debris, add that to our increasing air traffic. Over three hundred million passengers fly long haul every year!
We have not yet understood that all the resources needed by technology are right here on our doorstep. We continue to discover that the ingredients whether for a new form of energy or for a medical cure occur in nature. Wouldn’t it be ironic if a cure for cancer came from a plant species that humans had caused the extinction of!. I have read that a bacteria found on the seabed off Japan produces an antibiotic capable of killing the the superbug MRSA. This is a classic example of what I am stating. If we kill nature it will certainly kill us!
If we believe, then we shall discover. Like the Bible says ‘seek and ye shall find’. Think about many inventions, they have arisen because the ingredients had been discovered e.g. the fossil fuels which have given us light, power, heat and transport fuel. Building materials such as timber, glass, concrete, stone, clay and metals. We are able to create machines that work using the naturally occurring electromagnetic spectrum such as radio, television, microwave, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays. Think about the crystal!
Now that we are able to invent at the molecular level, a whole new world has opened up to science. What we do with this new technology. Again this needs some serious debate. Are we creating for the best interests of the welfare of the planet as a whole or just for a minority of short sighted and greedy people. I believe the latter. Gold as an example, is an incredibly important metal used in the medical and electronic sciences yet where are all the stocks? They are stored in bank vaults around the globe. Perhaps it is time for a re-think!!
I am not a scientist but when I am faced with papers and articles written by scientists with headlines such as, ‘All over the world scientists are revealing how the widespread use of chemicals is altering nature, from falling sperm counts to new cancer threats, to fish that are changing sex’, I fear for the worst. These new chemical threats, it is thought, originate from such products as pesticides, of which the residue can end up in fruit and veg or in animal fat products. Another is the possibility that harmful chemicals are leaking from plastic and metal containers that food products are stored in. Traces of Dioxin, one of the deadliest poisons to man and a by-product of many manufacturing processes, are now found in our food, water, soil and air and even in mothers milk! The poison has been linked with cancer, leukaemia, myeloma and skin disease. These chemicals are found in everyday items such as clingfilm, tin cans, toothpaste, cosmetics and cleaning products. They have been linked to cancer, birth defects and genital abnormalities.
Like the first men to build the car, are manufacturers aware or indeed do they care about the possible devastating effects on our future? You cannot tell me that science is incapable of finding a natural or non harmful milk carton. Similarly if tomorrow we find ourselves without petrol, you can bet your bottom dollar that within a short period of time, a vehicle that runs on water or an alternative and less pollutive fuel will be found. Nature can supply all the answers. We are nature. We need to look harder in the right direction. We need to reflect on the problems that we already have before advancing further.
The individual may not be aware of what he or she can do but, for example, if you work in a factory, join together and demand a list of by-products with a scientific report on what effects these are having on the environment. After all you work there. Put pressure on your public representatives regarding nuclear weapons and waste, toxic dumping, military spending, alternative transport, agri-chemicals, biological and chemical weapons, and so on. It is what they are there for and it is your taxes paying for it. I am sure that some women out there would be very angry to find that many of the beauty cosmetics they use also give them skin disease or cancer. I hope that you are getting my drift.
There are other new dangers lurking in the murky waters of the techno age. Since the pioneering work of Crick, Watson, Wilkins and others who unravelled the structure of DNA, major leaps have taken place within the genetic program. The implications of genetic engineering have already led to considerable public debate, and in most countries there is some level of government control over experimentation. However if the genetic program is going to mirror the nuclear situation then I think we are in trouble. Of course there are many good uses for this new science such as correcting genetic errors responsible for disease, but as I have said before, if we are to advance in a balanced way then our ‘thinking’ has to change. I have already read some frightening reports and arguments over patents to cover DNA sequences discovered by some researchers, scientists that become multimillionaires by investing in start-up biotechnology companies, the use of animals for experiments and the long term effect of genetically engineered animals, plants and drugs.
Genetically modified organisms, are a potential threat to our health, argue many campaigners. Many retailers have already banned products that have been genetically modified, at least until further information is available on the long term effects. We have recently experienced the terrible problems of B.S.E., it has been a classic case of humans meddling without thorough controls and responsibility in many departments.
During recent years major breakthroughs have been made within the genetic program. It is expected that in a few years genealogists will have unravelled the genetic text of DNA which contains over three billion letters. The result of this is not yet fully comprehended. We are at the beginning of playing the creator game!!!!!
Has it been done already? Have lessons been learned? Where are we going?