An excellent question indeed. And one that should have been asked in various manners, languages, ways and certainly in timing. Unfortunately, we did not really pay attention to that question and blundered on in sheer ignorance and denial and refusal to acknowledge what was well known and true. We trekked on into what was becoming strange territory, unknown and quite frightening.
But in our arrogance of denial of change, in so many areas and manners, we refused to admit it and blundered on, blinded and limited in scope of vison and turning wheels in the brains to admit that this world and the people within are shedding friends far faster than a dog sheds fleas. Even when garnering some attention, as people called out warnings, it was generally a case of fading attention. It did not gain popular acceptance.
Freak storms and droughts and floods and earthquakes of great power and resultant damages continue, to cause a synergy of the misplaced powers and realities of "freaky" weather, becoming ever so much more normal in its freakiness. But the naysayers, those who have much to gain in their rabid denial of other cleaner sources of power, are apparently the winning side for now. The possibilities of more answers of better quality and portent for the future will apparently have to wait by the wayside, until the situation is even more critical and more hitting home in the ensuing consequences.
Much less food, certainly those derived from fruits and vegetables grown on various farms round the world. The weather is so volatile that farmers are greatly challenged to find crops suitable for the new environment. How to market it? How to improve? If we are unable to feed the world or have been unable or even 'unwanting' to stop this situation, so bad that the remaining food stocks are too costly to be out of the reach of most of the world's population, we will see the worst of the worst.
Scarce food to buy as familiarity with the new technique of growing food. To ensure that we can keep what we now have and branch out from there. Do further research. Set up a fair and equitable program for distribution and keep the corruption likely to occur at a minimum, if it must be there at all. Most important, learn from the past. Avoid the problems that have plagued Humans since time immemorial.
The research is important. It is key, as a matter of fact. But we will net nothing worth of anything if we do not meet expectations and needs. Further research to alleviate the 'wolves' of this problem. An acknowledgement that we, us, and nobody else engendered its creation. Existential Peril to the world, to the only world we have.
It is a role placed upon us such as that we have never seen before. Yes, in certain pockets of the world, but that was downplayed as it was 'them'. the 'theys' of the world but not us, no, not we who live here and are ever so, much better, smarter, and self-sufficient.
Are we not? NO!!
We have just been luckier in the gifts of the world, of the earth, to us. We had some wise leaders who were able to weave their way between combatants and remain willing and able to put forth the effort to search their minds for answers and pathways to a better life.
But the truth is that we have been luckier. That we were able to overcome so much of the bad. But the truth remains. We are all in the same boat together. The same orb rolling around in space. Growing ever so much more challenged. The bitter, hard to swallow, to even recognize truth, is that our wisest people have not found a way through this terrible mess as it defies a true solution. All found so far are a pitiful few slight indications of possible ways to slow it down. But not to stop it. That point has long ago been reached and surpassed.
Right now, the best possibility is to find and keep it in a form of stasis. Until we indeed, hopefully and necessarily slow the path, and find new pathways, new sources of wisdom. Recognition that we are all sharing this planet and the fate of one is the fate of all. All of us are in the same boat. We share the same small planet. The world is in this critical condition because its inhabitants have allowed it to be so.
We have forgotten that not sharing and emphasizing instead that which separates us, even as the truth is that the similarities are far more important than the differences, those we have so foolishly, dangerously exaggerated. Certainly not to our credit. Nor to our pride. The farmer from the plains of America is in the same mess as the farmer in Pakistan who cannot grow his jalapeno peppers. The same stress and strain. To prevent further damage to the point of a "once upon a time" footnote in the history books of another planet, another civilization which hopefully, will have taken the lessons to heart.
The first steps are not to hoard. Not to grasp. Actually, opening up our minds and hearts, are steps helping to us move forward. Stop threatening each other with fists shaking in the wind, with threats to do the worst to each other. Time to put down the fists. Time to generate more smiles. Value honesty in our dealings with each other. have an acceptance of the truth as it is. And not as we make believe it is. The necessity to indeed improve that truth.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow.
The first step is the same.
Make a friend.
Be a friend.
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