What do you do when down - Read Darwin

So I can't face reading about the state of the world, I almost can't pick up a newspaper at the moment as so few people seem to be really thinking about the great problem of our age Earth management. They don't realize that without resources to sustain population, whether it be food, oil, fish or sheer living space we will turn on each other. We have repeatedly in the past.

So Obama visits Ghana, we talk about human rights, extremely important, but if we don't manage this earth all the our beautiful freedoms will disappear. So we have a conundrum; Democracy and freedom are based on mass bribery of always more yet always more is killing the planet or the life that we require to sustain us.

So it is all so obvious you go to any busy location with lots of humans and just watch and then wonder can this be sustained with minimal regard and thought for the earth?

So I read Darwin, or the voyage of the Beagle to take me to another time and another Earth. Oh he would weep now, if he were to take the same journey now, the tears would flow down his cheeks.

I watched some skate boarders the other evening they were being photographed in a concrete jungle with graffiti. That is all we will have left, the people will not be able to amaze at nature, it may look green in areas, but nothing much of any size will live. So we will be left photographing humans, doing something as mundane as skate boarding not a killer whale chasing a seal.

Everywhere he saw life, everywhere...

In all the noise of the Internet will this make a difference, will I be able to influence someone with far superior prose and connections than me? Probably not the odds are very small.

Well I have Charles for the duration of the book and then there will be another book, and perhaps just perhaps someone might stumble across this blog and think about the Earth a little, I hope so. We can but hope...

Depressed State of the world

I am incredibly depressed as I write this. I went diving in the med brought by locals who knew an area yet there were hardly any fish, could have been coincidence perhaps yet I did this years ago and there were swarms of fish.

I spoke to the locals there are much less fish now, squid gone...

We are killing this planet let's not beat around the bush, she is dying slowly, or life is. We are going through a massive amount of species extinction, polluting the planet, chopping down the habitat. Talking about global warming is stupid; the subject should be Earth management.

She is dying around us yet, most of the elite seem to have little complete grasp of the larger issue. Mr. Lawson the absolute idiot to think he had an important job writes a 120 page book, was he too lazy to spend a bit more time on it discusses that one issue. You miss the point Mr. Lawson you tried cooking? You might do a better job. If you are going to think on this issue do it properly and think of the whole problem. Whether global warming does or doesn't happen we need to manage this planet which equals:

Habitat protection. What are all the services it provides us? Can we just turn everything to farm land or will it have other effects?

Are we likely to run out of water can desalination help? Which countries will that effect?

Are we polluting and over fishing the seas endangering humans that survive off fish primarily? Is farmed fish really a solution?

Is the world getting warmer what are the effects?

What drives the agricultural revolution is that sustainable at ever greater population levels?

Morally should we allow the great extinction event to continue? Is it possible to prevent?

Which animals can we afford to lose for our own self preservation? Are we sure of all the effects of the myriad of others that are dying out?

Is our life style sustainable at ever increased population and consumption levels?

Earth management is the question.

Like most people I have friends I don't want to isolate myself I have a normal job so I hold all this worry anger and depression inside and I write to strangers in the hope I might incite some clever people to begin thinking about the challenge of our age. We are all so polite. I am actually thinking of going up to strangers and giving them an information sheet, standing outside universities and giving them an information sheet as I want to see the elite thinking about this problem and reading.

I left an information sheet in a bookshop the other day with a reading list and why as I hope I may incite some people eventually to begin reading some of the important books.

I met a girl doing a masters in Ecology she didn't know about the Columbia Earth Institute, she hadn't read any Jared Diamond, didn't know Jeffrey Sachs I mean for f*&k sake what are we teaching people. Why do we let our elite off so lightly read for Christ sake, read about these problems before it is too late, especially as you are doing Ecology and if you are going to write about it Mr. Lawson, even if you think it will all be great look at the whole problem and stop acting like an educated idiot.

I read something the other day and he said if it doesn't feel right it probably isn't right, go to a large sporting event, concert or even a busy beach and watch the people with their mass consumption, mobile phones, designer clothes they throw away, the cans thrown to one side and then think can this really go on? Does it feel right to abuse the planet so? Are there really free rides in the universe?