Where The Sun Don't Shine

It is with humbled hand and heart that I write these simple words........

The mere fact that I am still alive after spending fifty eight years in this miraculous place called Earth can only be understood as a testament to our worlds natural ability to heal itself in spite of having suffered through the many attempts man has advanced towards her, to destroy her. I stand here with a reverent respect for the forces that allow me say these words, and stand forever in awe at the power of nature, healing my soul, and lifting my heart. Let no human doubt my sincerity, for we all are merely that, Just human.

Just humans, the overwhelming source of our worlds greatest grief and calamity. Just humans, who at best, are barely tolerable on a very fragile planet and at worst, capable of atrocitys only limited by imaginations. Just humans, who have evolved the ability to believe we stand above it all at the top of the food chain and are eating ourselves into oblivion.

Just humans, who have deluded ourselves into believing we really do matter in the grand scheme of the universe. Just humans, who are perfectly at ease sqaundering limited resources and all the while putting other humans at risk to further our selfish interest in what we mistakenly call progress.

For eons our lovely blue planet as it's called, has been an ever so gradually warming rock, orbiting through a very dark and unforgiving outer space on its inevitable journey towards another very hot and much larger glowing rock. You with me so far? Good, because it's getting warmer quicker.

To tell you the raw truth our planet doesn't need us to survive at all. like I said, It's a rock and can shed it's paper thin life preserving atmosphere like a reptile sheds it's skin, given the right conditions.

We are but temporary guests of our planet . Thank your lucky stars "literally" Things could have been much worse.

Will we cherish it or destroy it? The choice has been left up to us. All of us. Will we set aside our differences long enough to gaze towards the night sky and dream of the possibilitys as our forebearers did, or will we succumb to our selfish human natures? After all we have the best excuse in the world, We're just human right?

What's a little blistering radiation from an unforgiving sun anyway right? What the hell can I do about it anyway right?. Oh, and I really like this one, "We have it all under control, we have Congressional Commitees on climate change working on the problems. Oh, now I feel better. Remember I said the choice is ours? Well it is, and you should include yourself in that group.

So Mr. and Mrs. Just human, Take your emerging carbon credit economy, and take your "Well I rode my bike to work today and inflated my tires to exactly 32 p.s.i. to save the planet" and stick them where the sun don't shine and get real. Those are childish ideas to lull you into a false sense of security so you can keep on working and keep on paying your taxes. Money that by the way, should be spent on "Your" future, not to buy some Congressman's kid a new jet ski.

Anyway, The point is, if we don't start building some real serious dialog with some real serious innovative fertile minded designers, engineers and scientists to help kick our oil dependence habit with the Middle East and start to heal our planet real soon, we won't be able to see the Sun,..... let alone see it shine...