The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations has issued its report this Monday (8 years in the making), wherein it states that climate change is now inevitable and irreversible - re: sea level rises, melting polar ice and glaciers, heatwaves, floods and droughts. There will be widespread global devastation.
The âflow of a river never turns aroundâ because of gravity.
Iâm not âcondemningâ my self-centeredness. Iâm just acknowledging the fact.
Much ado here among the crows on the river this morning. I have no idea what it is about but itâs very noisy and many have joined the cacophony. And then itâs finished. It seemed âsignificantâ but is there such a thing? In nature is there such a thing as one thing being more significant than another? Itâs a âhumanâ idea, isnât it? A system of âvaluesâ i.e., this is more important than that, etc. Life is more important than death? Didnât we invent that âoppositeâ, life / death, beautiful/ ugly , good/ bad, etc ? And all the other opposites? Do they mean anything except in our own troubled minds?
Can I look at all this without the âWordâ?
Of course. Without the ability to find one signal more meaningful than others an organism would have no guidance system.
Ah,
âGreta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate from Uganda, and hundreds of other young people from across the world are attending the Youth4Climate Summit. It is hosted by the Italian government, the UKâs partner in running Cop26.â
Thunberg said:
âBuild back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah,â she said in a speech to the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. âThis is all we hear from our so-called leaders. Words that sound great but so far have not led to action. Our hopes and ambitions drown in their empty promises.â
âIâ concur; WORDS, âBlah, blah, blah,â and no action.
More words from Charley
Nature sees itself through the billions of âeyesâ it has created?
Ooh, cool, very new-ageyâŚ
Being âout of syncâ with nature brings about an ignorance and a dismissal of it as being unimportant. The eyes see what is there, the shapes, the colors, the movement but it doesnât shock with its newnessâŚitâs seen through this âshroudâ of past memories and future concerns, the âmeâ. This lack of direct relationship with it or sense of being essentially separate from it creates a loneliness that may be at the root of our suffering and despair.
Watching the âpredators â search out their âpreyâ is watching the ânatural â process of things feeding on things. This is how they , the animals and birds and fish, spend their lives, feeding and resting⌠we humans have no significant predator stalking us and feeding ourselves is for many of us a trip to the pantry or fridge or store. Our âpreyâ now is money 
. Money, power, fame. Our prey is each other, to compete with, to outwit, to exploit, and to kill when ânecessaryâ.
You forgot spiritual insight. 
I did indeed! 
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Itâs included in âpowerâ
Yes, this is our understanding of the teaching, and we believe it to be true, but do we see the truth of it? Obviously not, or we wouldnât keep going over it so as not to forget it. We revere it like scripture. We have faith in the teachings.
Catastrophe,
There is an ongoing natural catastrophe going on here in British Columbia. Monday was the end of a 48-hour rain downpour. It is the rainy season here, so rain, generalized flooding, mudslides, etc. are not a surprise. It rains (drizzles) here until the spring, day in, day out. However, the downpour all over B.C. was so incredible that in that 48-hour period, more rain fell in that period than is the usual rainfall for the entire month. So, historic damage! I live on an island west of Vancouver, where very little happens 
The only thing I did was close my patio windows because of the heavy rainfall.
However, on the mainland and parts of my island there has been incredible damage. In the interior of the mainland east of Vancouver, there has been an historic catastrophe and incredible destruction. In the Sumac prairie region, a large part has been completely devastated by the flooding.
This rugged and awesome mountainous area is considered an important farming area. It was âcreatedâ by Europeans over a hundred years ago who didnât like the mosquitos, etc. and were looking to âcreateâ farmland. So âthoughtâ invented the idea of draining the large Sumac Lake, which they did (1923-1924) and then they had an entire basin of rich farmland to homestead on, creating mainly livestock, dairy and poultry farms. A pumping station and dam were built, etc. so as to irrigate the land, etc. So, itâs now a major dairy area for all of B.C. The torrential downpour combined with melting snowfall (climate change) caused incredible damage and destruction to all of infrastructure in that area (highways, railways, the oil pipeline was shut down, etc.), stranding everyone in that area. The flooding swallowed homes, cars, agricultural infrastructure, etc. Some poultry farms noted the loss of all their birds (in one case 36,000 birds died), and thousands of cattle have died. One person died in the mudslides, and quite a few are missing.
Other areas such as Chilliwack and Abbotsford are now in danger as more rain is falling (there have been breaches in dikes). Itâs quite the mess. A state of emergency was declared and the military are now building levees in order to prevent breaches in the dykes. (Edit: they have decided for the moment not to build a levee/s but are now busy repairing the dike/s.)
I will add that when Sumac Lake (SemĂĄ:th Lake) was drained, the indigenous people who had lived there for 10,000 years were removed and placed on a reservation. And then smallpox (brought in by the Europeans) decimated a large part of their people. Their repeated efforts to get compensation have been ignored. Looking out on the flooded Sumas Prairie region, Chief Walker of the Sumac people (he was all choked up) said how the land is the people and the people are the land. From what I have read online, apparently had such an idea of draining that lake been brought up today, environmentalists would have forced the idea of draining that lake to have been rejected. Ah, smh, always the same when âthoughtâ fiddles with âMother Natureâ.
I am slightly concerned about going out and doing some grocery shopping and seeing empty shelves - people have been hoarding.
Weather,
Considering how wonderful the summer is here this year (last year there was this heat dome where 619 - official stats - who died from heat-related causes in B.C.), so will be out and about, observing everything. Out of maple syrup, butter, and milk, so will do a little shopping. Really feel for those areas of the world where so many are suffering from, fires, floods, earthquakes, food shortages (i.e. grain, mainly because of the war in Europe), inflation, etc. I really donât know why my weather app said it was cloudy here today, when looking out the window the sky is blue, clear and so beautiful. Oh well, being here on the coast, the weather changes so quickly. We here have learned not to take the weather reports here that seriously *S.
By the way, one wonders who on this site is accumulating images of others? I trust that the members here are not allowing themselves to be influenced by those who carry the images of others in themselves, because some here seem to be more interested in image-making rather than being able in observing themselves.
So, in observing all the trees, one understands that the tree does not exist for âmeâ. It does not exist so that, âI see this tree and say it is beautiful.â It exists only for itself. The flower does not exist for âmeâ. It lives for itself.
The crow that was thirsty a few days ago and stopped to drink some water in the puddle, did not exist so that one would observe it. When it walked away from the puddle with its beak open (obviously not enjoying the heat), so it walked back to the puddle and drank some more. *S
It occurs to me that one reason for the sadness about oneâs dying, oneâs ending, is that I didnât love the Earth enough while I had the chance.
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Dan,
That you love the earth in the now is the only thing that matters, because the now includes all time: the past, the present, and the future. And it is obvious that you do now. Best regards.
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The question is âwhat can we learn from nature?â
Science is based on the mathematical knowledge of natural laws.
50°C = 122°F,
Last year in Lytton B.C. the heat dome resulted in the record-breaking temperature of 49.5°C.
Thankfully, this year, no heat dome.
There is a temperature rise in Japan, registering a temperature today of 44.3°C (112°F).
Now, the reason one is mentioning this is because one read about the dangers of 50°C.
In the Guardian, one read Halfway to boiling:
âAt 50C â halfway to waterâs boiling point and more than 10C above a healthy body temperature â heat becomes toxic. Human cells start to cook, blood thickens, muscles lock around the lungs and the brain is choked of oxygen. In dry conditions, sweat â the bodyâs in-built cooling system â can lessen the impact. But this protection weakens if there is already moisture in the air.â
omg, brain cell damage⌠