Beware of angry mothers

Submitted by Lindsay
Melbourne Australia!

Beneath the clouds lives the Earth-Mother from whom is derived the water of life, who at her bosom feeds plants, animals and human. - Algonquin legend

(3/2020) Nearly sixty years ago the world faced the unthinkable: Nuclear war. It was at the height of American – Russian one-up-man-ship, Russia trying anything to gain the upper hand in power and renown, America, by far the stronger nation, determined that Russia would not succeed in extending its pernicious beliefs any further…

Cuba, under Fidel Castro, had adopted Communism, which made America angry – right under their noses, a challenge that was difficult to deal with. But a small and powerless nation could be no real threat - until it was discovered that Russia been invited to place Ballistic missiles there, in response to the Bay of Pigs attempted invasion and the deployment of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey. America was suddenly threatened with nuclear war, which should have been no surprise because the CIA had been known had known about it for some time, but the 1962 elections were on and the intelligence, proved by clear photographic evidence, was ignored – elections are (still) strangely more important than safety.

A naval blockade was established on October 22 to prevent more missiles being landed, and demands were made that the ones already there would be decommissioned and returned to the Soviets. This was finally agreed, but the threat remained active for twenty days, during which time the alarm spread around the world and the first real possibility of all out nuclear war sent fear into the hearts of everyone who could read and hear.

That terror has remained a threatening shadow in the minds of everyone who was alive at the time, a kind of angst that has since been overlaid by diversions, progress in technology and trade, as well as the fall of the soviet union. But those who experienced it have never forgotten, and now it’s appalling shadow is resurfacing.

Surprisingly, the new threats have very little to do with politics or leaders, having been brought up because of the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. For a couple of thousand years we took pains to do this with unstoppable relish, and it was not until the industrial revolution and the rise of modern medicine that the rest of the commandment started to be fulfilled. You know, subdue the earth and so on.

Part of that was due to the Protestant ethic of endeavour, sternly adhering to the promise, ‘Thou rewardest every man according to his work.’ Work is good, work is profit, a man must provide, and abracadabra capitalism is born. Mankind is also very clever and artful, with a brain that, once stimulated this way, goes searching for the new, the exciting, the discovery. A the new world of technology is suddenly born - with unbelievable results.

Mankind is also very caring and loving, because we could not populate without it. We seek to preserve the race, to nurture it and cure its illnesses, to adopt social reform, which, together with technology has succeeded in making people long-lived beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.

So, from a few thousand proto-humanoids and their offshoots, we are now a greenish wet world with some 8 billion people living, breathing, eating and inhabiting it. Who take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide while expelling methane.

And the planet heats up, disrupting ecosystems, causing the weather patterns and ocean currents to go crazy. Some leaders, yours and ours especially, deny that anything is wrong, to just sleep easy, we know what we’re doing. That’s a lie we woke to years ago, and hatred for it is growing. Will our leaders succeed? I have no idea – I sure hope not, but that problem is just the tip of the iceberg.

We have succeeded in forgetting something that only the ancients, including your Indians and our aborigines, recognised – that the earth is not a dead unreactive thing. It has a life, which we know as Giai, embodying everything the earth has to give, and which we ignore at our peril.

Which is what we have done for the past two or three thousand years. It didn’t matter when we trod carefully, only taking want we needed and being part of the whole. But our brains have decreed otherwise, and we are now having to deal with a very angry mother. Her world is being attacked, and she is doing the only thing she knows – get rid of the attackers.

Gentle warnings went unheeded because we had lost the ability to hear, sterner stuff was ignored – we were too aware of our ability and ruled by ego - until today we are experiencing her full fury.

Storms, fires, floods? Small stuff. Changing currents, warming waters and melting ice? Far more serious. Very little fresh water? That is the most serious thing we have to face, although she has other tricks if we still don’t get the message: Lower oxygen levels. That is under way, ignored because, like all the other things, no one knows what to do about them. Science is trying, but working from the old script of new things to the rescue.

The cost to humanity will be far more than lives lost and living standards falling rapidly, because no government has the resources to keep their citizens safe, (except the top one percent who still care only for themselves), employed, healthy and fed.

And in case we still haven’t got the message, Corona has appeared because forests were cleared, new food from wild animals used, and their viral loads given wonderful new hosts. Yes, we will find a vaccine, yes, it will die out, but the numbers will continue to increase, and the population culled.

Gaia doesn’t care who, she just wants her earth put to rights

So, to all you God-fearing people, Armageddon is nigh. To everyone who still thinks there’s nothing wrong, lay in more booze. And to prophets of doom, high fives.