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If something is abundantly so clear, it is extremely obvious and self-evident
Discover what you love, what you value
Then,for sure, you will look after it.
‘Let the beauty we love be what we do.’- Rumi
Be in love with life and the living and the world will be a better place.- Kamran Mofid
The time is now to challenge the accepted wisdom that has denied and degraded
the people and the environment
Neoliberalism destroys human potential and devastates everything that is good and valuable
Photo: Kamran Mofid, a flower of love from our garden, Coventry, July 2021
To save the world I urge you to move from amor fati, 'embracing our fate', to amor mundi, ‘love of the world’.
Walking in Love for our Children’s Sake
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Surely, as we love our children, then, we must also love the world. We must act now, so that we may maintain a prosperous economy and a cohesive and just society that will not leave an enormous burden and costs on future generations, our children and grandchildren. This is our moral and spiritual calling
Lest We Forget: The key that will unlock the door to amor mundi is EDUCATION. But, of course, Not any EDUCATION!
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.' ―
‘Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.’— Hannah Arendt, The Crisis in Education
‘From the Latin educare, to educate means to lead into or draw out. Education is the activity of leading a child into the world, of drawing her into the world. Parents educate their children by drawing them out of their private selves and into the world of the family, their community, and their society.
‘Schools educate, in turn, by drawing students out of the confines of their families and into the wider political and social world. Education is always an entry into an old world. And yet, it is always a new experience with infinite possibilities for every new initiate.’- Education, Hannah Arendt tells us in the quotation above, is about the love for the world…’-The Crisis in Education
The Love of the World
This is How Education Can Save The World: A Perspective from the GCGI
Lest We Forget: We are called to be guardian angels of the earth and "sons and daughters of the rainbow." The challenge is to see ourselves "as alongside things, as members of a larger planetary and cosmic community."- Leonardo Boff, Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor
Photo: HuffPost
Education to Save the World
'Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world'.- Lao Tzu
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Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the world on fire
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the oceans on fire
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: From inside out You are now fully Plasticised!
Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have now suffocated the world!
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And now for your enjoyment and also to focus our minds on what is valuable, rewarding and life-enhancing,
please see this timeless video: “What a Wonderful World” with David Attenborough
'I see trees of green........ red roses too
I see em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... What a wonderful world…'
See the Video: What A Wonderful World With David Attenborough
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Photo: Is the Gulf of Mexico Still on Fire? The Pipeline Ocean Fire, Explained
'Humans caught the ocean on fire': Gas pipeline fire in Gulf of Mexico creates shocking scene
‘The ocean is on fire is one of those things that you can type and it’s true and yet it doesn’t feel believable.’- Brian Kahn, Via Twitter
‘Mexican publications and journalists reporting on the incident shared videos showing a harrowing scene: A orange glow below the boiling surface of the ocean — and boats spraying streams of water, in an apparent attempt to put out the fire. One of the most popular videos quickly racked up more than 10 million views on Twitter.
'Never in your life forget the time humans caught the ocean on fire and then tried to put it out by spraying water on it,'tweeted podcaster Dave Anthony...'Humans caught the ocean on fire': Gas pipeline fire in Gulf of Mexico creates shocking scene
And now for your further interest, a profoundly meaningful reflection on this matter
by the one and only First Dog on the Moon
‘Someone might lose their job – there might be a fine – there might not – nothing changes’- Photo: Via The Guardian
The ocean is on fire – humans have finally done it
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Photo: ‘The devastation of human life is in view’: what a burning world tells us about climate change
The Wisdom of Mother Nature belongs to all Life.
Let be guided and inspired by Her and Save the Web of Life
'Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others’ faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are.
Be as you appear.'- Rumi
Photo: Petal Republic
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More Thoughtful Reflections from First Dog on the Moon
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This is only the beginning, The World is Burning: Time to Wake up and take the right steps
Photo: ‘The devastation of human life is in view’: what a burning world tells us about climate change
See also: Extreme temperatures kill 5 million people a year with heat-related deaths rising, study finds
We must recognise that we are all in it together. We will either be all saved or all will perish together. Carpe Diem!
‘The devastating “heat dome” has caused temperatures to rise to almost 50C in Canada and has been linked to hundreds of deaths, melted power lines, buckled roads and wildfires.
‘Experts say that as the climate crisis pushes global temperatures higher, all societies – from northern Siberia to Europe, Asia to Australia – must prepare for more extreme weather events.
‘Sir David King, the former UK chief scientific adviser, said: “Nowhere is safe… who would have predicted a temperature of 48/49C in British Columbia?’: Nowhere is safe, say scientists as extreme heat causes chaos in US and Canada
'Severity of hot spell in western US underlines dangerous impact of human-caused climate disruption.'
'Excessive heat warnings remained in place across swathes of the western US on Monday after Death Valley in California registered what could prove to be the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth.
After a cascade of record heatwaves in Canada, north-west US, northern Europe and Siberia, the severity of the hot spell has underlined the dangerous impact of human-caused climate disruption and prompted scientists to consider whether computer models may have underestimated the impacts.
The US National Weather Service measured the temperature at Furnace Creek in Death Valley on Saturday at 54.4C (130F). If confirmed, this would equal the record set at the same place last year and rival slightly higher measurements made more than 100 years ago when equipment was less precise...'- Health warnings as Death Valley scorches in 54.4C heat
North America endured hottest June on record
Inside the Canadian town wiped off the map by a heat wave: ‘I watched my pets burn alive’
Record-breaking heatwave sweeps Canada – in pictures
Justin Trudeau’s love of fossil fuel will only make Canada’s extreme weather worse
Nordic countries endure heatwave as Lapland records hottest day since 1914
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‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say
We will only become safe when we rediscover and rekindle our sense of oneness with Mother Nature
Illustration: Nathalie Lees/The Guardian
The Wisdom of Mother Nature belongs to all Life.
Let be guided and inspired by Her and Save the Web of Life
'Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
Be like the night to cover others’ faults.
Be like running water for generosity.
Be like death for rage and anger.
Be like the Earth for modesty.
Appear as you are.
Be as you appear.'- Rumi
’How wonderful that the universe is beautiful in so many places and in so many ways. …its intonations are our best tonics, if we would take them. For the universe is full of radiant suggestions. …Over and over in the butterfly we see the idea of transcendence.
In the forest we see not the inert but the aspiring. In water that departs forever and forever returns, we see eternity.’ ~ Mary Oliver, in Upstream
And now, all said and done, we have only one home, our sacred earth, and there is no option:
We Must Save Her, We Must Honour Her, Nurture and Nourish Her.
Below you will find my suggestions on how this might be achieved, by turning fire and destruction into life and beauty.
Photo: Petal Republic
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