More Bad News For Mother Earth

 The new year has started and the bad news about Mother Earth continues to grow;

--The LA Times reported How climate change worsened the most destructive wildfires in L.A. history

--According to NOAA 2024 was the hottest year on record surpassing, the not to be exceeded, 1.5C°   preindustrial  temperature.

--NPR recently reported U.S. electricity demand is set to explode. That will make it harder to cut climate pollution.

--The Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a report that climate change is set to trigger market panics.

Surprising, Unusual and Weird affects of Our Environmental Criis

Our environmental crisis is worsening, and the decline is accelerating. The realization a few days ago that 2023 was the hottest year on record by far, and that we are getting close to  surpassing the 1.5° C (1.48°C)  rise that we could not afford to pass  tells me so. Because of our environmental crisis we are also beginning to get surprises and unusual events occurring most of us would never have imagined. These Bizarre and Surprising Events--are a Tell, a Sign--it's BAD and getting WORSE!

These strange and surprising events are occurring because we do not understand the magnitude of our environmental crisis and the damage we are doing to our Mother. Nor do we understand how linked we are to each other, the world and to events. As an Earth Healer and Keeper of Sacred Sites, who works with the Unseen World, that Hidden World beyond our normal perceptions I can honestly say--WE ARE CLUELESS about our Mother!

Some of you may be more prescient than I, but I think the following are a few things that got me to say WOW!

Lats Summer's Wildfires--The smoke from Canadian wildfires that blanketed large swaths of America last summer were a big surprise. Did you ever hear that Wildfires would choke America. I sure didn't and even some of my diehard environmentalist friends were caught by surprisel.

It really sucked to have to stay indoors and not go hiking, or be outside because it was dangerous to breather the air.

Ticks, Butterflies, Spiders, Cockroaches (?) Bugs of all sorts are dramatically declining in number because of electropollution. RF radiation from cell phones and cell towers is doing great damage to wildlife. So reports the Cellular Phone Task Force. EVEN THE TICKS ARE VANISHING  Don't know about cockroaches dying, but ticks tell me they are. I don't know if it was a myth or not, but it has been said that  cockroaches have survived all sorts of cataclysms and some could survive the fallout of a nuclear blast.

Climate Change and the Shrinking Brain. A study of the last 50,000 years found that warmer periods on the Earth were associated with a decline of as much 10.7% in brain size. Cognitive consequences: Study reveals startling link between climate change and shrinking of human brain

Paris UN Climate Change Conference--Will Mother Earth Bring China Back to Earth?

With the UN Climate Conference going on in Paris I thought it interesting to look at China.

China is on a tear, -- the Economist predicts in 2021 its economic growth will surpass that of the USA. Salon says 21st century will be China's. China has become a player on the world's stage and its growing influence seems unstoppable.

But can it really continue to grow at a fast clip and become the world's economic superpower?

Better yet will Mother Earth let it happen?

While China's economic growth has been surging its assault on Mother Earth has been exploding making its growth look like its going in reverse. Years ago I remember seeing on CBS's 60 minutes how Chinese pear farmers had to hand-pollinate their trees because the pollution was so bad and the bees were dead. I could not find article when I searched the CBS's website I did not find a segment, but I did find an  expose of Extreme Photos of Pollution that was dominated by places in China. Sure China is a big country with lots of people, but so is the USA, India, Russia, Brazil......

While China will surpass the USA in economic growth within a decade it took the lead in wreaking havoc on the environment and Mother Earth long ago. Consider:

1/5 of China's farmland is contaminated

Outdoor Pollution Kills 3.3 million annually in China

China is notorious for its air pollution, BBC just reported that the pollution in northeast China was so bad that it darkened the Sky 

60% of China's Underground Water Unfit for Human Contact

The Council on Foreign Relations reports on China's Environmental Crisis

China's pollution could be behind our cold winters

They have polluted the land, the air and the water in unimgainable ways previously unseen. The human carnage caused by pollution is apparent and will continue and may accelerate. What has recently begun is that Mother Earth has stepped in. It is believed that the catastrophic flooding seen this summer in China may have been caused by air pollution.

We have a delicate and symbiotic relationship as I have explained on this blog, on the Mother Earth Prayers and most notably my book Vortices and Spirals, Unlocking the Mystery of Our Relationship With Mother Earth. When we break that symbiotic relationship we suffer the consequences.

The idea that a society can be wiped out, or forced to move because of damage done to Mother Earth is not a new one. Many believe that the Anasazi in America's southwest left their land because of environmental concerns.

She is our Mother (Earth) and we need to treat Her accordingly. If only everyone realized this the world would be much different. Because who would want to hurt their Mother?