A Blog Heard ‘Round the World

It’s Blog Action Day.

I am participating in a global movement today that attracted bloggers from around the world, to blog about one single issue, on the same day. It’s a possible inflection point, albeit a small one.

The topic is the environment.

I don’t have strong opinions about the environment, other than to say three things.

One: The environment is important.

Two: The environment includes more than plants and trees, it’s first a system of interlocking forces that live exists within…and, second, the function of each life form; from micro organisms, to bugs, to trees, to weather, to complexity of the human body/mind, to our relationships and back out to planetary movements are dependent, independent and interdependent of one another. To look at one without the other gives us distorted view…sometimes appearing cataclysmic.

Three: Just because our collective attention is now turning to the environment as critical…doesn’t mean it is ‘doom and gloom’ scenario.

I have been reading The Skeptical Environmentalist, as a balancing perspective to “Inconvenient Truths”. The bottom line is, yes, by all means, the environment needs, wants and deserves our attention, yet let’s look at the data, all the perspectives, the patterns and flows within the largest understanding we can. And that, my friends, is where the more of the truth lies. So very few us can do that. So I do what I can, and then I do a little more and I spend more of my time working on expanding my mind.

Here are a two of my favorite perspectives on the environment:

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