How can we protect wildlife and forests from rapid climate change?


Protecting Mother Nature.

 
Spiritual practice involves both withdrawing into the healing quiet of meditation,  and actively participating in our world, and engaging with it, as best we can.  Where can we provide service,  and how can we provide better service?  This involves an honest appraisal of the problems of our world, and what we might be willing and able to do about them.
 
 Inevitably we need to look to Mother Nature,  as the Source of all life and the Source of all healing.   She is an important Source for our spiritual nurturing.   As Deity Who manifests in the living world and the Source of all life,   she has suffered immense damage and pollution to her forest and woodlands,  rivers and lakes, and oceans,  in the last two centuries.  Almost a million of Her species have been driven towards extinction, by defilements such as greed, ignorance, destructiveness and stupidity. 
 
Since unspoiled Nature is the best place to practice meditation,  it is fitting for meditators to become involved in defending Mother Nature.
 
I felt called upon to write about rapid climate change caused by burning fossil fuels.  It is an over-arching issue and global, both economic and ecological,  and exacerbates most other environment issues.  I explored the full breadth and depth of the issue.  It has been a fascinating journey,  and I invite you to come with me on it.
 
My other website  solvingreenhouse dot weebly dot com  is part of the publicity campaign to let the people know all of the choices.  People need solid information,  with substantial existing support,  that clearly identifies the problem and/or identifies real solutions.    
 
Solvingreenhouse  explores the following topics –

  1. How we can cut greenhouse gas emissions in Australia, by changes to industry and energy use.
  2. Where Australian Government policies hinder this process and why, and where they help.  And other more suitable policies. 
  3. The technology of cleaner coal,  with less emissions from existing and new designs of coal power stations.
  4. The technology of hydrogen for energy storage for wind and solar, as fuel for freight trains,  and to replace coal to smelt iron ore.
  5. How to restore the vast forests onto bare cattle paddocks.  How to use plantation timber to frame houses without poisoning the occupants and workers.
 
Australian exports of iron ore and coal are our biggest export earnings,  and our biggest cause of greenhouse gas emissions.  This reveals our greatest opportunity to cut emissions.  But we also rely on exporting vast quantities of rapidly disappearing minerals to pay for our tertiary goods, which all are imported.  What happens when the minerals run out?  How could tertiary manufacturing be reintroduced into Australia in a responsible way,  to give us jobs and self reliance?  So I explore -

  1.  The principles of Responsible Manufacturing, where each manufactured good needs to comply with threefold standard –
  • green certification that the manufacturing caused less pollution and less consumption of scarce natural resources
  • humane certification that the workers had proper living and working conditions with proper trade unions, and
  • certificate of durability,  that the product will last long and is easily repaired locally. 
 
I discuss how Responsible Manufacturing could be introduced into Australia,  and tariffs needed on substandard non-compliant products to protect the new industry and its integrity. 
 
I also include another webpage that describes traditional ancient technology of tribal people, as a comparison to modern technology.   I describe an extraordinary tribe of Eskimo Innuit who lived in the Canadian tundra.  They collected their winter food supplies from the annual autumn migration of the caribou from the tundra to the northern forests for winter.  I describe the amazing technology they had, that enabled them to survive and thrive in the most inhospitable land on earth,  where it was thought no people could live.  I also describe the white man, Farley Mowat,  who had the courage to travel to their dangerous homeland to meet them.
 
 These peaceful Eskimo Innuit demonstrated how people could live in complete harmony with Mother Nature, and really appreciate the immense gifts She can give to us.  If they could survive and thrive there,  then surely we can do so here.  We live in a virtual paradise by comparison.
 
I hope that solvingreenhouse dot weebly dot com  will be helpful for you.
 
Best wishes from Mike B.