Rather than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic we might build new boats
The sunrise this morning reminds me of the polarity of life. The light to the dark, the good to the bad, the healed to the broken.
In one part of the world, there is a locus plague. Nature gone rogue.
In another part of the world, millions of people have been displaced by war. Living in camps, in extreme weather, children dying of the cold.
And in other parts, many people have been displaced by changes in the environment that is not of their doing. Generations have been uprooted, forced to find other ways to stay viable.
Billions of animals have died. Whole ecosystems burnt beyond repair.
We are part of a whole. The whole is intricately interconnected.
If we might learn from how 2020 has begun, at the least, we might learn that our human-constructed systems that have been designed on the premise of unlimited growth, extraction to extinction, colonisation of others and our own interiors do not work in harmony with nature.
Rather than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, we might build new boats. We might build systems and structures, enterprises and communities using the laws inherent in nature as the template. The time is ripe to do that now.
March 17th 2020
Photo taken March 17th, 2020
