Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with a man of conviction. I love meeting people who actually have passion about something. He is charismatic, well-aged and full of life experience.
This is a man who let life lead him down several different paths and allowed himself to become absorbed but not controlled. He took opportunities and then made more of them, working each to his satisfaction, completing the task to a point of "finished" before moving on to something seemingly completely unrelated and different.
He stuck to and walked away from enough things to be honestly proud of and has a long list of successful accomplishments. I am happy to have had the honor of sitting in his home and listening, grateful for the opportunity of being treated as somebody worth imparting his opinions upon.
In the end I walked away with learning something. There is a term for the thing I could not put my finger on. "Eco-conflict groups". These are the people who treat environmentalism as an opportunity for profit, stroking egos and lustfully tantalizing the masses who hunger for a cause. As he says, they have filled the void left behind by organized religion, forming almost churches at whose alters the minions worship.
They have convinced the public of what their interests are, despite scientific proof, swaying the democratic process to the point of efficiently eradicating all logic in the production of food.
In the end, we have less than one hundred years before we will no longer have the means by which to produce food unless we somehow find a means to feed the soil, replacing what has been reaped through over-tilling and poorly though-out urban sprawl.
Though it is nothing new to be led by illiterate law-makers, swayed by experts with agendas that will not meet the needs of future generations, it is no less sad.
Something must be done to reverse the trend toward the eradication of our own species. There is hope but perhaps not enough time in which to realize it. The world's most precious resource is being depleted through purely synthetic good intentions and we must wake up to the reality that not all that is said in the guise of saving the planet is actually good for the planet.
Though it is true that the good of the planet is more than what is beneficial to the human race, at the end of the day if we do not do what we can to preserve our own existence there really is not much point to being all that altruistic. We cannot rob ourselves of the basic building blocks of agriculture and expect to live on... well, in truth there is a group protecting virtually every element of ... everything and none correlate to each other.
We do not treat the planet as one, cohesive, interrelated organic whole. We segment, compartmentalize, divide, and sort in silos all that cannot exist without the other parts. We build walls of ignorance and conflict between groups that are inter-dependent. We are our own destroyers and worst enemies.
In the end, it is the socialization of key decisions that will be our undoing. We are so focused on letting the masses decide that those who are in the inner circle of the industry are left paralyzed and stunned at the lack of reason and accountability. In the mean time, these so called interest groups wage war on the future for the benefit of dollars raised from people who think that they are donating to a good cause.
The sheep love being told they are doing good. A pat on the head and a tax receipt for their donation is enough to satiate the hunger. Few ask enough questions or fully understand the answers. Few have or want to take the time to really understand. When they do, it will be too late.
Climate change is not the biggest threat to our futures. We should be worrying about sustainability. How do we ensure that there will be enough food to go around when we are running out of what it takes to grow it? No really, this is not a rhetorical question. How do we do it?
