Tackle the consciousness, not the symptom - Climate Change COP 15 Message
This video is features the best speech of the century - and speaks for me; at least my inability to speak or write since I had an experience merging with the ocean in Antarctica as well as participating in “Bohm Dialogue” or conversations which focus on possibilities and inner selves, as well as meditation.
To me, people conduct current actions in a way that is consistent with future as they perceive it. One of the cause of inaction (to climate change etc) is our fixation on achieving the goals - we pay so much attention to creating the “future” (which is in some forms of an American dream or the other) that we forget to take care of our state of being, how we feel right now (stress, frustration, or patterned complaints)
The fixation on future, like everything else, goes down to perceiving self as separated from the “others,” our external realities. After all, it is “my future” and not future of humanity or planet earth i am working hard for! - and this, according to this scientists- is because of the work of our left hemisphere of the brain.
This video gives a scientific backing through evidence of actual personal experience (which is always less suspicious to me in terms of admissibility and veracity of evidence)
and it reminds me of Didi Sarvagyia, who cried for me, when i told her my story - similar to this scientist.
P.S.
My friends and team-mates are at COP 15 (Dec 7-18th) right now!
Here is the message we are delivered in the form of 3000 postcards (and on our sustainability bags, hoodies etc)
Please become http://apps.facebook.com/causes/causes/415927/
a member of the facebook cause and invite more people to spread the message before Dec 18th end of the Climate Negotiation UNFCCC COP15 and get the postcard sent to yourself or friends from Copenhagen.
Why i support it:
The negotiation is not going anywhere now, but scientists say that’s better for the world. I agree.
National Sovereignty is the foundation of International Environmental Law and treaties (including the Kyoto Protocol), but the broader context is that United Nation’s budget is only 1.8 % of the World’s Annual Military Expenditure - $1.5 trillion ($1,500,000,000,000) - What is national interest? who is it really serving?
My proposal is that without re-imagining what does it mean to be a human being in this planet - what it takes to be happy - any resolutions will reinforce the unjust system which led us to here in the first place.
In a world of multinationals (top 200 combined sales of corporates are bigger than all nations GDP combined minus top 50), it is up to us and not the politicians, who can vote through everything we buy and not to buy —that will lead us to a possibilities and a future different from the past.
Seeing the choice we have in our hands, now, is critical.
Statistic based on:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending
http://www.globalissues.org/article/74/the-arms-trade-is-big-business
http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations
