Friday, April 22, 2022.
Earth Day.
The world’s attention, however, is elsewhere.
This beautiful blue marble, floating in a sea of stars, fragile and isolated, has sustained such an amazing array of life for eons. We have only just begun to understand how lifeforms are connected on Earth. How much DNA we share with plants and animals and with each other.
How much intelligence is stored in nature.
Trees have underground networks in their root systems. Mushrooms have their own language. Whales sing and dolphins click while navigating their way in deep oceans. Birds follow centuries-old migration routes. Bees pollinate flowers so that plants flourish and we are nourished. We haven’t even discovered all of the life forms Earth sustains.
And yet, for some reason, we seem hell-bent on destroying the mechanism that supports life. A mass extinction is already underway. A barren, dry land with acidic oceans seems inevitable — threatening all life as humans have experienced it.
We know the Earth itself will survive. Eventually life will reappear. It’s happened before. The tenacity of life is undeniable.
Will those new life forms be as fascinated with humans as we are with dinosaurs? Will the compression of our bones and waste under layers of earth fuel another myth of unlimited growth? Another catastrophe, mass extinctions, destruction?
I’m still hopeful that we will survive. That we’ll change our value system before the worst has come to pass. We will make honoring our Earth a daily practice.
Want to join me in preserving what’s left of life, in all its splendor, while we still can. All you have to do is believe that you can be the change the world needs to thrive and be well.
