Loss of life on planet Earth (2.9.14)

Good Morning. Happy Sunday!

This week I'd like to spend some time thinking about what we can do for our planet Earth to help her overcome her sickness, created by mankind's greed. I have read some alarming new articles this past week, that suggest that the carbon output on Earth will increase by 30% by the year 2035. This is horrendous news and puts the fate of humanity and all of life on Earth into a new perspective. Every day there are around 1000 species going extinct on our planet. Every single day. This is pretty incredible.

And still, most of us go about our business unaware and completely removed from these statistics. Most of us continue on in our materialistic lives, puppets of our own selfish egos, uneducated about climate change and in many cases unwilling to do anything different in our own lives to make any kind of lasting difference.

Well, I suppose we can play it that way, and hope we all find our spiritual enlightenment as we come to the end of the existence of the human race. One way or another, I imagine, we will all find our connection with all that is, whether that be by living more consciously, or by dying more consciously as the end arrives for life on Earth.

We are in the middle of a mass extinction event. This seems pretty clear to me as more and more species disappear daily. As humans continue to live unharmoniously with nature, we will continue to upset the balance of life on our planet, until eventually this place we call home will no longer be able to support life at all.

So, I ask you now, how important are more fossil fuels? How badly do we need more dirty energy sources? What can each of us do in our own live to make a real change, and to instigate change in others around us? What can we do to turn the balance in our favor so that humanity can continue to exist on this planet we call home?

It is time to get serious and begin a real dialogue about how we can work together to change the outcome for humanity, for if we continue on our merry way, the reality seems to indicate that there just isn't much time left for the human race.

And we CAN do this, if we change our thinking and work together to approach the problems of climate change, or climate survival, in a new way.

So, I ask you, on this Sunday morning, how do you want to proceed?

Love to all.

~Rev. Kerry