Count More than Oil and Gas Profits to Save the Arctic from US:
I posted the following on Facebook for The Economist before their conference on resources in the Arctic:
"Dear James Astill, environment editor of The Economist and author of the special report on the Arctic Summit (The Economist), Oil and Gas Industries and All Humans and Life on Earth Now and Generations From Now:
We need to count more than human cash to survive this moment in human history please:
Prayer: God, May this be a moment in human history when humans do realize that All do have the uncommon rights and the responsibilities as inalienable parts of the w.w.w.l. , of our w.w.w.l. (of Your world wide web of life) to protect our own fragile but critical natural capital of God's amazing, productive and fragile green and blue and yellow nature, of natural ecological economies, logical economies of living organisms (plants, animals, systems cell to self to globe) that hold the web for all life intact. . . . .that produce all critical flows that keep all humans alive day to day and minute to minute. We cannot own those riches. . . .but can only nurture and protect and value them to enable them to produce riches for future generations. . . . .to value and nurture critical nodes and flows of the web for all life impossible to count in terms of divisive human cash coins.
Nature shares abundant riches impossible to count in cash to keep human cities alive day to day and minute to minute. Human cash systems divide to count and count to divide to conquer, to crush the competition, the other, the diverse. But humans need the amazing hidden genetic diversity in every organism to produce a more functional future for all to share. In other words, human cashflow floods destroy productive green watersheds and the ability of nature to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.
Real capitalists do not destroy the invaluable/priceless natural capital (such as logical economies, ecological economies) of the Arctic of very fragile ecological systems, logical economies of natural producers and consumers that produce to consume and consume to produce critical flows to share with others, critical producers and flows and systems of God's logical economies impossible to count in human cash. God's green nature, wonders, mysteries and miracles are much too complex and infinite and vast for human cash systems to count or even understand in human terms of mechanical, artificial, uniform cash systems of walls and barriers. .. . .
Humans need to learn to value the invaluable, the priceless, the inalienable flows and producers of the fragile but critical web for all life in the North, life impossible to count in human terms of mechanical, artificial cash.
But some just don't get it. . . . Some value their own privatized, immediate, obvious walls and barriers more than God's riches of the universe that keep him or her alive day to day and minute to minute. Numerous religions warn against the dangers of valuing short-sighted human cash more than God's infinitely intricate and vast networks of life impossible to count in human cash. Please see "Overview" on Vimeo.
The oil and gas industry and other dirty energy industries have conspired to destroy God's logical economy of the North (and beyond), the fragile but critical systems of life, inalienable biochemicalgeological systems that hold together larger systems of earth such as ocean currents, the Gulf Stream that warms the southern tip of the UK in more logical patterns and designs of the infinite. . . . .
Arctic melting will cause and is causing unprecedented melting of Greenland as you read this and threatens to disrupt the Gulf Stream that warms England, and possibly throwing that section of the world into a deep freeze. How economical is that?
Human egonomies blind human vision or caring beyond one privatized, immediate, obvious, urbanizing self . . . .and endangering their own childrens' futures.
But humans need cash economies to build great cities and great civilizations, cash a tool as a hammer builds great human legacies. But what will our legacy be as a generation if our selfish greed that blinds so many also drowns and destroys us?
James Hansen of NASA and other scientists have warned US that we need to reduce our carbon emissions enough to keep global heating under (as much as humanly possible) under a 2 degrees centigrade increase . .. . .or that earth will become uninhabitable for life ("a different planet"), thoughtless and careless heating of our world causing Greenland to melt with a 20 foot rise in ocean levels, and Antarctica to melt with a 200 foot rise in ocean levels (Hansen, 2007). I do not believe that is economical for any and I and many scientists challenge those that claim otherwise to a global debate on Fox media. . .. challenging those that claim that monster storms such as Sandy and Isaac and Katrina benefit our economy. What is our economy counting? Have we forgotten what we're counting?
The word root, "eco-" as in "eco+nomical" and "eco+logical" means "house" or "oikos" in Greek. . . . .but not every house nurtures those within. Some houses hurt and destroy those within, habitats and inhabitants of nature's hidden genetic potentials and miracles that any need to keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.
Most humans in human cities of privatized walls and barriers of cashflow floods blind their selves to the future even of their own private children with erroneous illusions that human cash is greater than God's fragile but critical creations of nature. . . . and assume erroneously that artificial and mechanical cashflow floods justify all. But they do not. Those that assume that privatized profiteering in cashflow floods justifies all are wrong, very, very wrong. . . . .wrong scientifically, wrong mathematically, wrong economically, wrong morally.
We need to count more than cash. We need a new economic system nationally and globally and beyond that counts more than private cash, please. . . . .cash a tool to construct private houses and comfort but not much more. We need an economic system that protects and values the abilities of nature's fragile but critical producers, plants and animals and whole systems, ecological systems, logical economies of nature (uncounted by human cash) to produce the critical flows (such as O2, H2O, rich, organic topsoil, green, food, shelter, nurturing parents, laughing babies) that keep humans alive day to day and minute to minute.
Perhaps the idea of civil government and the civil Rule of Law was an amazing breakthrough in human history in their understanding of moral reciprocity (that produces Balance of Power for All). .. .to protect the innocent now and generations from now.
I respect the creativity of the global oil industry for blocking the efforts of nations, scientists and groups to limit carbon emissions globally as an Oil and Gas Industry scheme to melt the Arctic to gain access to the oil and gas under the ice . .. and to ship those supplies to markets for cash profits for the Oil and Gas Industries.
But are we ready as a human species to sacrifice the future of our children. . . and our own. . . . .of, by, for privatized, deregulated corporate CEO profiteering for record-setting corporate CEO profiteering . . . .at our own expense?
Act now please to help the oil and gas industries, the coal industries, the nuclear risk industries and the dirty-fuel-dependent war industries to wean theirselves from their deadly habits. . . . and help humanity to pull our selves out of our deadly tailspins of peak oil downward . . . . and up into a more positive course toward satsifying self-determination that clean, renewable energy investments can give to our children, to our common futures together in positives impossible to count in cash.
Do you think that humans can learn to save our selves from our selves?
Thank you."