Acknowledgement of the Earth

Empty promises and hollow oaths are almost always synonymous with pollution and ecological disasters.

People continue to pollute, destroy, and ravage the earth on a consistent basis, not only in other countries where the standards for pollution are non-existent, but here in the heartland of the US. Pollution will be consistent force until humanity is wiped out for its various indiscretions. I hate to be all doom and gloom, but the idea of the earth creating a defense mechanism against the species that is inflicting the most damage is not far-fetched. In fact, that scenario is consistent to how organism defend themselves, they evolve and adapt to threats over time, like a cell to a virus, a whale to water, the earth to its parasites.

But enough doomsday talk and hideous predicaments in the near future, too much of this talk will destroy any maintained willpower about helping the earth, and just usher in a continued negativity.

The recent trend of organic food and green products is an excellent step, and the options for almost all products to be organic or completely green friendly are vast and wide. The price of these items continue to be high in comparison to their non-organic counterparts, but the building popularity of helping the problems stabilizes this price gap. The mindset of doing healthy things for our planet is growing, but it cannot be globally attained if we don't realize one important thing.

The earth is the most complicated and powerful organism in our existence without a debate or doubt.

The fact that it can sustain life as it's being surrounded by dead zone of darkness and faraway light is astounding. That statement is the most simplistic acclaim I could give due to my limited scientific knowledge, but needless to say I think the earth is an amazing creature. Before we're completely harmonic with the earth and not be surrounded with random cancer causing wells, and radioactive pits honeycombed across the globe; we must become fully aware of the earth as entity. Groovy man.

We need an overall change in our philosophy when viewing the earth.

It is a global imperative that we curb our production of greenhouse gases, and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels for energy. It's dangerous to assume that helping the earth ends with buying organic and green products. We have to evolve and consider the earth globally in terms of longevity. Unfortunately when we disturb one ecological site on the Earth, we're actually disturbing all of them. The pollution in China is a threat to the United States. Fossil Fuel emissions in India will effect weather conditions of the European Union, and pollution from the United States will effect Canada, and so forth.

Everything is webbed together annoyingly enough, and the more we realize this network of life, the better chance we have of sustaining it. Films continue to poke at this universality in fictional and non-fictional settings like "Avatar" or "A Inconvenient Truth" but the next step is a change in philosophy. A globally initiative must be undertaken, the Kyoto Accords must be truly followed.

So beyond this environmental rant that I just released, what is my promise to the earth as Earth Day fast approaches? My promise to the Earth is to not let the organic foods and green products keep my goods works at bay. My promise is to move beyond material acquisitions that give me the "saving the earth feeling". To change completely how I interpret environmental changes. If anything our individuality hurts us when we conceive the earth. Due to how our modern society is set up via communication and media, we now feel more individualized and specialized to ourselves.

We're allowed to create such a concrete identity for ourselves through social networking sites, that we forget about the greater community. Thinking globally will become less profitable, and we will only focus on problems in our own backyard. My promise to the Earth is to keep the ball rolling and don't get focused on on just some fancy recycled packaging or organic cupcakes. Sustainability is key.