Betty Biodiesel's Blog

There I was happily doing the dishes when my friend Greg popped his head up the the window. We chatted a bit and wham he said it, “the planet will survive the issue is the people”. Any science class will tell you that the earth has undergone many transformations. There was the ice age where our earth was covered in sheets of glacial ice, the dinosaur age where dinasouars and about 70% of all life species died due to volcanic and asteroid activity.

So here we are in 2009 and when it gets to 3009 what will the history look like. Will it be like those sci fi movies we’ve seen where New York is eerily covered in water or ice or robots come back to the planet to roam the antiquated artifacts of our time? Who knows but what we do know and what the left, eco, environmental, etc. movement needs to come to grips with is a relanguaging of how we sell the urgency of needing to take care of our earth. It seems quite neglectful of our human species to simply say, “Save the Earth”, when what we really mean is take care of the planet so we can save the human species and the animal and plant species that we rely on.

This blog is part two in a call for the relanguaging of the movement to change our consumptive, greedy and exploitive ways. The first blog related to this was the way the green movement encourages people change our burning of fossil fuels. We actually use the word “Fight Global Warming” when there isn’t anything to fight, except ourselves.

In all the therapy I’ve done, the one thing I know about myself is if I am beating myself up with a negative thought bat then it is time to stop, put down the bat and check in with how much I do love myself. I invite us all to take this to a global level, and dig deep in the request to be grateful for where we have been, what we have done as a culture and begin to recognize ways to change the behaviors that will not bring about supporting ourselves, the plants and the animals. I add these plants and animals as reminders that without these we humans would not exist, plain and simple.

I am baffled as to why we still objectify the whole experience we find ourselves in by saying “save the planet” as if the planet was not us. We are intrinsicly dependent on the planet, however the planet is not dependent on us. Take this another way, what if the planet was a living organism (the gaia theory suggests this) and without us humans the planet would not be able to express its amazing bounty without our manipulations of it. This is how we get all the products, transportation, etc., through invention of the humans inquiring deep into ourselves and coming up with ways to produce, be mobile and create our future.

The question is…Is what we are creating going to bring about the death of human, plant and animal species as we know it and if so why is that so bad or good?