Monday, 11 July 2016

World Population Day - July 11th

Yes, it's an official UN awareness day. Concerned people everywhere talk about it. Since we now have the technology and the information, we can watch as worldometers clocks up new net births at the rate of about 2.8 people per second, and today we number 7.4 BILLION. 

But... the World talks, too. If we look out of our little shells, our minds, we observe that Nature is intelligent. She has developed Life on this planet and maintains it in a beautifully functioning system. Man is not as intelligent because he is wrapped up in his opinionated world, and often acts very blindly. But, we are in the hands of Nature. And She is producing human beings at a startling rate. We have become globally conscious enough to see this, but are we able interpret it correctly?

If you have an orchard, a vineyard or a vegetable garden, you know you nurture it and tend to it and keep it healthy and productive so you can harvest all the fruits in abundance. If you live on a sheep farm, you care for your animals so they will reproduce and have lots of wool for the market and baby lambs for the slaughterhouse – twins, or better, triplets. The more the merrier.

If Nature has a planet where She has produced life, including Man and Woman – the height of creation – and they are increasing dramatically, it is because She needs all this Life for some reason, and She will deal with it in due course: reaping fruits in abundance, shearing the wool maybe, and sending the little lambs to market… Or maybe She is setting up a challenge that will finally either be faced by Man and Woman consciously and we will finally learn how to be better human beings, living at peace with one another, sharing and giving instead of taking in the name of the ego, and truly cooperating with Nature. 

Destruction and despair, or becoming a true family of humans on a speck of dust in the solar system. What is it going to be?

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