BLOG 10: GLOBAL WARMING

On the 20^th September 2019, we saw a massive swell of people from all over the world, many of them school students, march in the streets to protest inaction to global warming. The instigator of this protest was a young autistic female Greta Thunberg.

I asked my Spirit Friends what their thoughts were on the movement, global warming and could they see an end to the crisis.

5pm 28^th September

Pete: There seems to be a ground swell starting against those that mine coal, oppose the science of Global Warming and generally refuse to believe it is all as a result of human intervention. Will this ground swell amount to anything? In particular, will we get the planet back on keel or are we heading for a disaster no matter what we do?

SF: It is too late now to make significant changes, enough to prevent catastrophes. The reason for the misunderstandings amongst the nay sayers is because they make the assumption that global warming started when scientists first discovered it, which was around the early 1970’s.

Global warming started way back with the industrial revolution, when intense heat from coal fires, and before that wood burning fires, created the heat necessary to melt metals.

Back then the changes were happening slowly because the planet had plenty of trees to absorb that level of increased Co2.

Then came steam transport, and lots of it, massive increases in industrial usage of coal powered steam generation and the discovery of electricity, with steam fired generation.

At the same time, countries were being conquered more than ever and trees removed for farming, the use of the timbers and the growth of new and expanding towns and cities.

With the advent of oil came the next evolution in the revolution. Cars, ships, planes and general industry began massively increasing their use of this new commodity while further depleting the world of it’s forests. And of course wars and skirmishes where more fuel was guzzled so as to ‘beat the enemy.’

The final faze of the revolution came with faster and more expansive forms of transport, such as oil burning cargo ships, road transport and jet travel.

Pete: But surely these advances were a much needed boost to the lives of those who previously laboured hard and strong for very little reward?

SF: It was never intended for resources to be wasted, greed to be fed, or super consumption of the many for the profits of the few. Nature was never intended to compensate for it. Respect and care for Creation has been the basic rule of all primal beliefs. It is the corrupting concept that wealth is a sign of ‘God’s’ love that has seriously increased this speedy destruction of the planet.

Pete: So then if we were to cut back on basic commodities in our lives, such as reducing electric energy waste, limiting our use of motor vehicles etc would that buy us more time?

SF: Imagine one large passenger jet sitting at the tarmac of a very busy international airport. It is idol except for it’s ancillary motor running for the air conditioning and power generation. How much CO2 would it be creating? How many home fires, burning firewood would it take to equal that amount of CO2?

Now multiply that one jet by the amount of jets, just the ones running ancillary motors in any given 24 hour period at any airport, all over the world?

To that, add the total amount of machines, cars, ships, industrial machinery and jets and planes in flight, belching our CO2 in any 24 hour period. Then multiply that for any 12 month period.

What is the only known converter of CO2 into oxygen? Trees.

Trees are the primary converter of most airborne pollutants. However, instead of massively increasing the planting of trees all over the world, and the respect of the water needed to feed these trees, the world is doing the very opposite.

Any researcher will tell you that the world now has less than a 10^th of the amount of trees it had at the beginning of the industrial revolution. And more are being removed at an even more alarming rate as We speak. To compete with the current outpouring of CO2 the world should have at least a continent the size of Australia fully and totally forested NOW. As trees disappear, so to does ground water, and therefore evaporation over land masses is reduced.

Something has to give, and as it is human interference that has caused this, humans will suffer. It is nature’s way.

Pete: It seems sad that a lot of good people will die from heat, lack of water and starvation, while the wealthy will continue to live in their ivory towers and may possibly be the ones that continue the human race.

SF: If people are dying, won’t animals die also. Won’t they have to be released to survive for themselves? And won’t they go back to their carnal ways of killing people? In about 200 years, the world won’t be as it is now. Already earthquakes are preparing to form new land masses. Tidal waves will wipe out millions. Volcanoes will cause massive changes in the weather and the most basic of animals, the carnivores, will go in hunting packs. First on the menu for them will be domestic animals such as cattle, deer, sheep etc,. Then it will be humans.

Pete: I am sure that everyone reading this, including me, will say can’t we do something?

SF: Even the march that you first mentioned to start this Blog, couldn’t rally 1% of the world’s population to voice a protest.

Pete: I’m seriously regretting I asked this question.

SF: Until the people of the globe become aware that the world is a fragile place, and start attuning to their Spirit Friends for guidance, the inevitable will be their reality.