I thought about it for a while and then decided that this may be the case. Then I trawled back through some older blogs and thought some of them were quite good, as you know it's quite hard to be completely objective about almost anything, let alone your own work. Anyway I conclude that yes some of my blogs are quite miserable in a way, but on the other hand if you keep your sense of humour you may find something to laugh at too, like yourself for example.
I watched a TV prog last night, It was about James Lovelock. He is the guy that came up with the Gaia principle. This is the idea that the planet Earth is a self regulating organism. That is, intelligent life on Earth creates what it needs in terms of it's own atmosphere and environment. He goes on to say that this has worked fine over the last several billion years but now that man is making such a big impact on things Earth is fighting a losing battle to maintain it's status-quo. He gives the example of the polar icecaps fast decline as one irreversible process that will lead to an increase in global temperatures and therefore the rather fast demise of many species that now exist, including us! He goes on further to say that his could happen in ten to one hundred years time. He also said that perhaps a billion people will survive this event.
'Thats a bit negative James innit?'
We have this sort of information bombarding us all the time from many direction, even the movies of gloom and disaster are more than ever. We have global economic recession, global warming, overpopulation as just three of the 'negative' things to think about, or not.
According to James Lovelock what we are doing to save things is a waste of time, we are virtually doomed according to him. I must admit I'm sure that if I looked hard enough online I could find a counter argument to his theory, but I haven't bothered.
What can we do with this stuff? The way I see it is if you as a person has one day or 80 years left to live, you still have certain criteria to meet. According to the experts humans a very few 'needs' as opposed to wants.
We need to eat, sleep, poo, keep warm, the company of other humans, shelter and contact with others. I may have left some out but you get my drift. If you put that list against the wants of humans you find a different story.
'Whaddya want? Whaddya got'?
I really do try to keep things as simple as I can for myself and on most days I think I'm part of the solution.
tonight history is being made as the three major party leaders have a debate on TV. I will suspend judgement for the time being, but I do suspect it's going to be a . . . . . .
Ommmmmmm
I don't find your blog negative at all...I think it is very thought provoking. It doesn't deny the darkness of the world that's out there but at the same time the thought that there is something to rely on, ie myself through yoga, I find very reassuring. And often it makes me laugh, which is just as good :) x
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