I wonder how many of our members are old enough to remember when that commercial ran? It seems like not so long ago that people were waking up to our growing global problem. Now however it seems we are more concerned about Wall Street and whether our favorite sports team will make it to the playoffs. 
The BP disaster of last year really got me pissed.
Corporate greed, Government corruption. Religious bigotry. We fight over resources instead of providing for our fellow man. Yeah, like some advanced Alien race wants to make contact with us. Does anybody who believes in the possibility of Alien life think that they want us dragging our crap out into the cosmos? We are swimming in our own filth.
No really,
we are swimming in our own filth.
we are swimming in our own filth.
I was amazed that so many of our ATS members were surprised or shocked over the recent mass global die offs of birds, fish, bees and bats. It isn't like we didn't see this coming. Scientists have for years warned about the effects of pollution
and what the possible consequences may be. Hell, even some of the oldest religious texts tell us about mass die offs of sea and land animals. Could they all be wrong?
We sit here in our modern world. Thinking we are kings over all that we survey while burning fossil fuels to maintain our comfort zone. Day in and Day out all day everyday 24/7 pumping ton after ton of garbage into the air as if it doesn't matter. The western world started with the industrial revolution. First it was mass burning of coal and now it's oil. Either through a giant factory smoke stack or out of our tail pipes one way or another we continue to pump toxins into the environment.
There are really only two things in nature that clean the air of pollutants. The Oceans and the worlds Forests. How have we been treating them? We clear cut for more farmland, more wood products and for living space. We have been in an all out assault on our forests since man first discovered fire.
Many of us will sit here and discuss the problems of the modern world with offering no real solutions. I don't know the answers I can only offer my opinion. The world is reaching 7 Billion people. We are in no danger of over population anytime soon BUT we are not supporting the people we already have. How can we Support an even larger population?
This is where it gets really bizarre, We have large companies such as Monsanto and Bayer who try to come off as if they are helping us with food production when in reality all they are doing is attempting to patent what we eat then charge through the nose for profit from that which God/Nature has produced. In the process they may be contributing to the downfall through genetic manipulation of organisms that took millions of years to develop and claim that it's safe with only a few months worth of testing.
We are the guinea pigs
Technology isn't a complete washout.
There are some bright spots. Or are there?
We have had the technology available to us for environmentally friendlier transportation but AGAIN corporate greed [Big Oil] killed that. Anybody reading this remember the EV-1? Now it's a museum piece. Sure, there are vehicles on the market these days. However we could have had a major jump start had it's development and sales continued.
The General Motors EV1 was an electric car produced and leased by the General Motors Corporation from 1996 to 1999.[1] It was the first mass-produced and purpose-designed electric vehicle of the modern era from a major automaker,
We even bring our junk with us into space.
Space debris are a danger for satellites
Mankind polluted Earth’s oceans and atmosphere in an impressive way. According to the European Space Agency (ESA) it also polluted space in such a way that it represents a danger for satellites for the next 10,000 years !
To their website: “Since 1957, more than 4,800 space launches have led to an on-orbit population today of approximately 13,200 trackable objects, with sizes larger than 10 cm.”
Additionally, any object bigger than a centimeter represents an important danger for satellites because of their speed. There are up to 600,000 of them in terrestrial space.
We have the technology to actually do things differently and so far TPTB have been dragging butt to cooperate and actually do the NEXT RIGHT thing.
So what do TPTB do?
They build seed vaults to store as many seeds as possible.
Hidden Doomsday clocks and Megalithic structures with instructions for
future generations.
They build seed vaults to store as many seeds as possible.
Hidden Doomsday clocks and Megalithic structures with instructions for
future generations.
'Doomsday' Seed Vault Stores 500,000 Crops
A mold-resistant bean, a German pink tomato and a wild strawberry plucked from the flanks of a Russian volcano are just some of the crops whose seeds are being tucked away this week in a giant vault dug out of a mountainside of the Norwegian island Svalbard.
With these new deposits, the so-called Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault will reach its half-million mark of seed varieties. The giant icebox of sorts, which was officially opened on Feb. 26, 2008, is meant to protect the world's crop diversity from natural or manmade disasters.
Doomsday clock
Here we have another Gazillionaire <--Sarcasm, spending money on some rather interesting projects. This particular clock is being built inside a mountain in Texas. The idea to build a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long-term thinking came from computer scientist Danny Hillis. The construction site and access is on property owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who is also funding the construction of the project. The Clock site overlooks the valley where his space company, Blue Origin, has its launch site.
Clock One
The Long Now Foundation will be starting geologic testing this month for an underground space to house a 10,000 Year Clock. The Clock design, headed up by computer scientist Danny Hillis of The Long Now Foundation, has been in progress for over fourteen years. The Clock will be all mechanical, designed to keep ticking for at least 10,000 years, and will keep track of many calendric and astronomic events. The first eight-foot-tall prototype of the Clock resides in The Science Museum in London.
The idea behind the Clock is to be an inspiration for long-term thinking, to help make thinking long term automatic and common, instead of difficult and rare. It is hoped to be an artifact to connect its visitors to the future in the same way relics from ancient civilizations connect us to the past.
from top facing South
The Clock project in Texas, called Clock One, will be the first Clock built at monument scale by The Long Now Foundation, which also owns a potential site in eastern Nevada. The Clock will be almost entirely underground, and only accessed by foot traffic from the East once complete. The construction site and access is on property owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, who is also funding the construction of the project. The Clock site overlooks the valley where his space company, Blue Origin, has its launch site.
The Clock of the Long Now
* It must not be made of anything anyone would want to take.
* It must be clear how it works without taking it apart – so that no one will want to (or have to) take it apart.
* It must be powered by natural forces.
* It must be built so that even if during a dark age people forget how to build clocks, they can understand this one and how to keep it going.
* It must keep time for 10,000 year without being off by more than a second.
The Georgia Guidestones
Source
A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature
So what exactly is going on? 2012, Alien Disclosure, Pole Shift, Increased regional flooding from ice cap melt off or are we about to simply repeat that which the Earth and Humans have done before? I'm not going to debate the whole Global warming/Climate change argument here. The Earth is changing, whether it is a result of man-made pollution or a natural cycle of Earth is irrelevant, what does matter to me is clean air, water and enough food for everybody.
It seems to me that the people of wealth and power aka The Elite may know something the rest of us do not. They seem more concerned with leaving these rather bizarre creations behind than using their immense wealth and supposed power to help solve global problems.
I don't know about you but I would love to leave our children clean water, fresh air and untouched forests. What can we do? Well I for one do my best to recycle. I don't buy cheap garbage simply because it's on sale. [Cut down on non essential production/pollution] If I don't need something I don't buy it. I turn off all electrical devises that I am not using. I walk to locations that are within a mile of me. I try to spread the word about the environment.
Am I a tree hugger. Yes and no. The problem is that those who have the power wont do a damn thing unless there is a profit in it! They hold all the advanced technology that can really make a difference. I seriously believe that mankind made a wrong turn when we turned our collective backs on Nikola Tesla.
I believe we can once again be in balance with Nature/Earth. As a matter of fact we have to, or we as a species wont last but a few hundred more years IMO. If this is read by anyone in say 200 years. I have a feeling they would agree with me.-Slayer 69 @ ATS
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