DON"T SAVE THE EARTH!

Earth is a mighty being, way more powerful than mankind with its toys of destruction. A slight change in temperature can wipe away all life on earth in an instant, but the planet itself will remain. So how could we possibly "save" it?

Nor can we "save" our eco-system. Marketing predators to areas where they have been exterminated is a profitable business, but it will not help to establish the eco-balance, because to prosper Nature needs...Freedom.

So whom are we to save? Ourselves, perhaps?..

To do so, it is necessary to take an honest look at the problem.

Since decades we have been disconnected from our animal nature and, consequently, from the natural world. Without deep personal connection to nature there can be no real respect and love to the environment which hosts us.

Connection to nature is NOT trodding along specially designed trails which host announcements placed on every intersection about what animals live in the bush and why we should avoid any contact with them. Nor is it "organic"lettuce sold at crazy prices at the "cool" farmers' markets. Nor can it be found in dozens of meet-ups which propose anything from "walks with profs" to "street to trail" connection. Respect to nature can not be measured by recycling plastic bottles and Coca-Cola cans-we should not produce single use containers to begin with.

It is something intimate, personal, it can not be regulated by some specialised office, it can not be purchased as a commodity through slick and professionally looking websites.

Perhaps the process of "saving the earth" and re-establishing the eco balance should start with remembering who we are, with re-connecting to our animal nature? The answers how to do it can come only from within. Only by recuperating the memory of one's wild self can one re-connect with the wilderness. Without a deep, profound and personal connection with nature we are doomed to rely upon "eco-professionals":slot-machines which move only when oiled by a good salary or a government grant.

Unfortunatelly, most people are used to look for answers to "professionals", forgetting that the latter have no reason to eliminate the problem-they would go out of business if they were to do so.

Many people treat our planet like demanding customers. How could it be otherwise? Consumer society teaches people to relate to everything and everyone this way. So perhaps step number two would be to get to know what is out there, to form one's own opinions, and to act according to them?

Moreover, rapidly changing climate and limping world economy seem to suggest that we can not afford an army of grant seeking "activists"and a hord of equally useless , but much more harmful politicians. If you want to "save the earth"-get rid of white collar human predators who speaculate upon a life and death situation for which they are greatly responcible.