Blog Action Day: The Environment

Not Two Is Peace

Few can doubt we’re at a crossroads in history – serious attempts must be made to steer humanity toward a new and sustainable civilization. The World-Friend and Spiritual Master Adi Da Samraj has written that:

…things are deteriorating more and more profoundly in areas that are not being addresses directly and effectively: the overall condition of the Earth, environmental pollution, global warming, climate change, the abuse of power by corporations and governments, the necessity for new technologies and new methods in every area of human life, the scarcity of fuel resources and of natural and human resources altogether, disease, famine, poverty, overpopulation, urbanization, globalization, human migration, territorial disputes, violent crime, the pervasive accumulation of excessively destructive weapons, the tendency of nation-states to avoid cooperation and mutual accommodation, the tendency of nation-states to use war as a method for achiving the goals of national and otherwise culturally idealized policies, and so on – and on.

- Not Two Is Peace, p. 148.

Bummer.

Any wonder that the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity? Between the despair which comes from clearly seeing the pickle we’re in and the denial of a problem is a sweet spot where real direct action can be taken to help resolve this environmental crisis – the coming crisis of life on Earth. We must require world leaders to make things right:

No merely virtuous voice of calling, advice, and educational effort is capable of enforcing that requirement. Only a demand made by what cannot be subordinated to the usual political power-games is capable of obliging the situation to change. The entire collective of the six billion of everybody-all-at-once is the only power in the world that can change the current chaos.

- Not Two Is Peace, p. 162.

I would encourage anyone interested in a planet-wide solution to these issues to support the Global Cooperation Project launched in response to Adi Da Samraj’s call.

Despair is not an option. Our fate is not sealed. There is still time work on resolving the crisis in a radically new way.