Doesn't it feel like some circle is closed, or that a certain balance is being re-established in some way?
In the last years an ever stronger growing voice can be heard the world around that climate change is the mayor threat to our planet. I think so too. And even if it's not, I still think we should not make such a mess of our collective home, exploiting and (ab)using up all it's natural resources, chopping forests, leading to extinction of a great number of species and producing more waist per person each day than a Neanderthal in his whole life-time!
It's like we are consuming up all our resources, littering and shitting in our own house. A house we can't get out of you know! So, first we shit in our backyard where we don't come to often (Africa and the third world in general), but if we feel a great sudden need we don't mind doing it under the couch (the shit we keep in our own 'developed' countries) . If we continue like this we'll end up shitting where we don't want to anyway: the kitchen sink and our dinner table (Fifth Avenue?).
For hundreds of millions of years the earth has been working as a self regulating closed circuit that was able to balance itself. But then we showed up, broke the circuit it and got it out of balance (basically in the last hundred years..). The climate is just one of several elements in this circuit and, at present, the most threatened and threatening for our survival, due to Global Warming. This is caused by the CO2 emissions as a result of using fossil fuels - coal, fuel oil and natural gas - for industry and transportation.
However, after building up gradually, my feeling that somehow some balance is in the process of being restored climaxed today!
First there were some significant drops in the stock market. Then came the Credit Crunch. This caused a drop in the construction industry, followed by a drop in the automotive industry, airlines and industry in general. Maybe I don't have the order correctly, but that's not the point, all of this happened.
And today the OPEC announced the greatest cut in oil production ever!
Isn't that amazing???
Right when we're somewhere close to the point of no return regarding Climate Change, due to global warming caused by unlimited CO2 emission through burning fossil fuels for cars and industries, the whole system collapses and, all of a sudden, industries and oil production drop like never before. Precisely those mechanisms that the mayor causes of Global Warming. Most surely this has a higher impact than the public opinion or Kyoto ever could have achieved. And in a shorter time...
Most mayor industries have dropped their production in several dozens of percents.
Doesn't it look like this fits too well to be a coincidence? Doesn't it look like we reached some invisible limit and we have been pushed back hard? Like a warning that says we cannot continue this way?
It really makes me wonder if there isn't some cosmic force or law behind it. Others may think of it as something divine. And even if it's just a coincidence, in any case, we should take advantage of the situation to rebuild things in a more responsible way.
Of course it's sad for all the individual little people that suffer from the situation, but let's hope the few big individual people and collectives (industries, companies and governments) that manage us all have learned and draw wise conclusions from it. For example avoid overspeculation that needs overproduction that forces overconsumption which generates overpolution.
It seems that most governments actually think in that direction. Everybody should, we all can do with a little less.
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