Living in Balance

It doesn’t matter if you are spiritual, a bible thumper or a pagan, the fact is that we here on planet Earth are out of balance with nature.

Granted there are a few of us who are making the effort to live in balance with Nature. To those folks, I say thank you. Thank you because you are doing something that I believe a lot more of us, actually all of us- need to be doing.

We humans have been abusing the Earth for more generations than we care to admit. Instead of traveling down the path that will lead to a symbiosis between mankind and nature, we took many short cuts. Which in turn harmed the Earth and now the Earth is fighting back- we have more severe weather patterns. These weather patterns are now more severe than any other time in our recorded history.

Because we took so many short cuts, we now have to deal with pollution in more ways than any of us need. I recently read that a large portion of our water sources contain mercury. In case you don’t know, that’s a bad thing.

The end result of us being out of balance with nature is that nature reacts to what we do to it. Now we have many species that are now extinct and many more that are on the verge of being extinct. Once they are gone, that’s all folks- we’ll never see them again.

Not only have our get-r-done as quick as possible attitude affected the animals, it is now affecting our environment in ways that may soon be deadly for us. Our winters are becoming colder our summers are hotter and our storms are a lot more intense.

We need to reach a level sustainability that many are afraid of. What are they afraid of? Well living sustainably requires effort and judging by our ever expanding waistlines, some of us are either afraid of exertion or we are lazier than we want to admit.

The simplest thing that we can do is recycle. Never in our history has recycling been easier. Many communities now offer curbside pickup. In my area, you don’t even have to separate your items [however I do it anyway.] Just by doing this one step, you are helping keep millions of pounds of items that are reusable out of valuable landspace. By recycling some items that won’t decay for thousands of years, you are helping the Earth maintain a better balance. Recycling helps keep our landfills cleaner. I can hear you now- cleaner? By keeping our landfills ‘cleaner’ we help the Earth get back some balance- a balance that will benefit all of us sooner than later.

A ‘balanced earth’ helps to produce ideal soil for growing food. Something I think all of us would agree is a good thing.

So, what do you say? Can we create a balanced Earth?