Copenhagen

Copenhagen 2009:
2 weeks to save the world. That is what they are telling us, the leaders of this conference on climate change. According to them if we do not get agreements at the end of this conference then we will have wasted our last chance to save the world. The world, this amazing world that has supported life forms for 4 billion years. The mother earth who seems to have a benevolent predisposition to supporting life in so many infinite formats. 2 Weeks to sort our crap out or else she will expel us, or kill us all.

Will Our mother do either of these things; will she banish or discard us forever? Do we understand her enough to be able to decide at a 2 week conference how to find harmonious balance with her nature?

I fear our egos are exceeding their remit once more. We still see ourselves as masters of nature and our environment. We believe that a collection of our "suits" can solve all of the earth's problems and that we can reverse, arrest or dictate climate change by virtue of a series of conferences and man made laws.

I believe one of the main reasons why climate change has gripped so many of those in power into such a vice of fear is that it highlights to them how irrelevant and how lacking in control this particular phenomenon makes them. They believe they can control everything; however climate change is one thing that they realise they may not be able to control.

So what will happen in Copenhagen or at the next several conferences? As a guarantee taxation will increase and revenue generation mechanisms will be instigated. Big business will get bigger and the man or woman on the street will pay from their pockets. But will anything change? Will we get a handle on climate change and gain the power to stop, arrest or reverse its effects?

I don't know the answer to these questions but I fear that as long as we allow our leaders, our businesses and our governments to tackle this problem exclusively, then it will only be engaged with intellectually and from a purely financial basis ONLY. It is a problem that they think can be fixed by throwing money (our money!) at.

The child, woman, man, grandmother and grandfather in their individual lives will not be empowered to engage with their environments from their heart spaces. In this heart space they can come into harmony with their local environment and hence regain their place in the cycle of nature. In this space they will align with their local community and form powerful alliances who heal their locality. In short they will make the enlightened choices that eliminate harmful activities, consumption and pollution from their lives. To put it bluntly they are not now being directed or legislated into submission from above, but rather are leading and empowering themselves from the ground up.

Will this more desirable path lead to us arresting or reversing climate change? Again, I don't know the answer, but surely this is a much better route to go down. Why should we allow the few to create taxation (carbon taxing), new industries, new legislation etc. that are supposed to stop climate change, but offer absolutely no guarantees that they will succeed. We will spend billions and trillions and may well end up causing more pollution problems through incompetence (very likely), or corruption.

It will cost us nothing (or very little) individually to step up to the mark and make enlightened, empowered decisions in the moment. DO we really need those new products?, do we really need to pollute with certain activities?, do we really need to throw so much of our food away? etc...

The earth has an intelligence that we cannot comprehend. As mentioned she has supported life forms of such staggering variety and abundance over such a long timescale that our place in her history is truly minuscule. We are powerless to control her. If we accept this then we can relinquish so much fear and come to a place of acceptance and empowerment.

She (The Earth) may well be in a cycle of climate change that will permanently alter our environment. Change is guaranteed here on Mother Earth. She is constantly shifting and moving, recycling, evolving, dying and birthing. Are we adding to her woes at the moment by pumping excessive quantities of CO2 into her atmosphere? More than likely we are, but if we stop will she then co-operate as we wish her to and stop changing? What if she doesn't? Only she can answer these questions.

If we TRUST though that this benevolent mother who is so predisposed to harbouring life in all it's formats may be changing but will always have a space and home for us, her children, then we don't have to be so afraid and so powerless. If we ourselves evolve alongside her evolution, then we can make the enlightened choices as mentioned and come into balance with her.

She will look after us, provided we make the effort individually and honour her presence and gifts to us. Climate change or not we need to honour our home. We need to trust we have a role in the future of this world, even if our environment does alter greatly from the way it is now.

Carbon taxing alone will not bring us into balance with our mother!