The Good Thing About Climate Change.

Last year for blog action day, I logged on with a piece about free seeds. No response. I reckon really poor folk can't get to a computer, and those that can get to a computer don't need seeds....

This year, it's about climate change. That's a big subject. I can't even call the climate in the different parts of my garden from year to year, much less really know about the macro world. Tell you the truth, I'm not sure that the scientists really know, either. They use a computer, after all, and a computer is only as good as your input.

Luckily, the world is not a computer—leastways, not one built by man. So it may be premature to think that we are the kingpin of civilization, or the master of the change, or, possibly, even, the architects of our destruction.

There were fabled tales of a northwest passage that the Vikings followed. Greenland was once, indeed, a green land. It is now covered in—albeit—melting ice. My point is that this has happened before, and it will happen again. We will have as little control over it now as we did then. Our genius is not in control of the the environment so much as it is in rolling with it's punches. We are a migratory species, just like the birds. We are supposed to follow the sun, and grow with the plants in the warming places. What's arbitrary are national borders. Lines on paper, really, but, hey, that's something you really can control. Just make more guns, bombs, guard those lines and those resources. Control! At last! ? Is there a Devil laughing somewhere, maybe not so quietly?

The problem with historical records is that they are so often lost or misunderstood. The problem with prophecy in any form is that the prophet is so often wrong. To tell you the truth, all this talk about global warming almost makes me really suspect the opposite. What's the deal about oil? It rather boils down to control of the environment. More oil, more control. It costs more to heat than it does to cool...leastways it does in my neighborhood. And the planet has a rather grim record of heating suddenly, and cooling just as swiftly. Our government hasn't exactly given me huge reasons to trust it lately. Yes, Global change may be happening. (It has never stopped). It may also be going the other way...any decent mathametician will tell you that from a certain perspective, the equations balance, and it's difficult to see whether you are on the positive or negative end of the spectrum.

The good thing about global climate change? It may just force us to truly work with our neighbors, in every way. No time like the present, to start.

So, it's all about perspective, and all about balance. I can't work the macrocosm. I can't affect it in any way. But I do have many choices in the microworld. And all of them start with peace. It is the only way that we, as a species, can roll with the environmental punches, and emerge, peacefully victorious, on the other side.

Good luck in your efforts, and remember, you may end up having to lay down your arms and grab a hoe anyway. Either way, hot or cold, climate change makes it harder for food production, and hungry neighbors don't make for peaceable ones. Farm small, farm organic, trade out your produce, feed you neighbors, give them peaceful places to grow their food in, and teach them how to do it as well. Sooner than later is best. You may find you're just too busy to fight a damn war anyway.

In quantum peace