OneWorldC12…. first thoughts
Where does one start with a topic of both global breath and yet individual effect? How do we resolve a sense of personal guilt yet understand our species is wired to be exactly where it should be? What can one do to change humanities course to the destruction of an entire earth epoch that has given us a species friendly environment? So many questions without elders to provide answers on untrodden ground we are walking.
Questions asked make for dialog of understanding of topics, the causes, the consequences, and ways to help ourselves and indeed all of life of our world of peril. This first blog goal is to just take my small voice and add it to others in this space of planetary collapse. I do not write to gain fame and fortune. I built this site not to be better than many that are in the ether. I formed this site as a place for those that I touch to have a path of information and more importantly to have access to ideas, mentors, tools to understand and mitigate, on whatever scale one can, the damage we are doing to ourselves, all life here, and the very earth itself.
The Action part of this site is what I hope to develop most as time goes on. What used to be an unique individual a few at best has grown into a large number of highly skilled therapists, indigenous elders, geopolitical specialists, enlightened economists (still very few), and many that have spent decades of their lives working to teach, gather and expose data. These individuals employ a host of avenues to get humanity to understand its role in our predicament and ways to reduce the path we set in motion so many generations ago. I hope to gather many and provide a path for readers here to take a direction of value to themselves to help their own journey and perhaps to help some close in their tribe.
I especially am attracted to the humble yet powerful simple speaker of truth. One who is aware of simple realities and not swayed by media, governments, and businesses. Such entities are powerful and adept in misleading for agenda’s counter to earths and life’s health. One such person is Wendell Berry. Many will not have heard of this writer… and that is part of why this site exists. I like that Berry, as myself, can be part of the system and problem. That does not stop us from trying to change what we can. There is no blame for what humans do.. we have hundreds of thousands of years evolving to have the workings and responses to life events as we do. We can improve and perhaps the Great Simplification will allow us to regain some of our past skills that have been hijacked by other parts of our psychology. Berry observed, “The deal we are being offered appears to be that we can change the world without changing ourselves.” This kind of thinking enables us to continue using too much energy “of whatever color,” hoping that “fields of solar panels and ranks of gigantic wind machines” will absolve us of guilt as consumers.
Perhaps this site and its purpose is therapy for me as well. I think so. I plan on writing and bringing into the conversation others that are far ahead of me in experience, knowledge, and past actions. These people do not make me feel insignificant. I am strengthened that they are here and have been here with a history that gives perspective and validation. I may be late to the game but we at any point can make the earth and our community a bit healthier no matter where our future takes us. We all do the best we can with the tools we have at the time. I hope you find value here. Contact me anytime. Doug
