We're killing the planet - but she isn't going down without a fight!
The world is currently suffering from an amazing number of earthquakes, volcanoes and weird weather conditions.
Why is this happening?
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Is it because the planet is so sick of the fleas (us) on it's back?
Has Gaia, at long last, decided enough is enough? And wants rid of us?
We may have got it wrong in our belief that man is the top species on the planet.
Dolphins have bigger brains than us, and are the most amazing creatures. They are known to have a language of over 60,000 words. They name their children. And can project their thoughts as images to other dolphins. You would think that knowing this, we would have respect for them. Yet, there are some who have been incredibly cruel without thought or care for these beautiful animals.
An old Japanese man said after the 2011 Tsunami - "The sea is angry with us."
And I think he was spot on.
Below is a clip of the sea engulfing eastern coast of Japan in 2011.
Injured - 6,023
Missing - 3,282
And over 150,000 lost their homes.
This was an event of catastrophic proportions.
Why did that man think the sea was so angry with his country?
Ever heard of - The Cove - a dark secret that Japan hid from the world for a long time. The slaughter of Dolphins and their young at Taiji cove, where the water runs deep red with their blood.
I've not shown any You-Tube footage, as it is very graphic. Also, I won't go into details about what happens to the Dolphins that come to the cove - it's too distressing for me - but I believe that Japan is, has been, and will in the future be punished for it's barbaric treatment of animals on land and sea. Do they really need to eat Whale or Dolphin meat? No one needs to kill these magnificent sea creatures - full stop.
We dump rubbish in the sea, with little thought as to what it is doing to that ecosystem.
When buried in a landfill, a plastic bottle takes 450 years to biodegrade - some plastic bottles up to 1000 years.
In warm ocean water, plastic can degrade in as little as a year. This is good - right? Wrong.
The plastic degrades, it doesn't totally go away. And as it degrades into small bits of plastic all those nasty toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) and PS oligomer, plastic is made of, end up in the guts of animals or wash up on shorelines, where humans are most likely to come into direct contact with the toxins.
I read that if you eat fish - because of the extreme amount of plastic now contaminating the sea, you will also be eating a certain amount of plastic.
We pump billions of toxic fumes into our precious air everyday - but we still expect to have clean air. Are we totally insane?
The Amazonian rainforest - the lungs of the world - is being cut down for cattle grazing.
It is believed that a 137 species of animal, plant and insect life, is lost everyday as a result of deforestation. That's 50,000 species each year.
And what are our politicians doing about the rape of our planet? Seems to me, arguing - and not much else.
When it's gone - there's no going back.
Tropical Rainforest Facts
Deforestation of the Amazon
And, why has the 'Ring of Fire' become so much more active recently?
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According to scientists the activity level is no more than normal. Or is it?
Recently there has been an alarming increase in activity. Chile is being constantly shaken by earthquakes. A volcano in Peru has erupted for the first time in 40 years.
Across the ring of fire we are seeing, an unprecedented increase seismic disturbance.
Apparently along the west coast of American - California - experts believe, it is only a matter of time before there is a major seismic event.
So why has the 'Ring of Fire' started to tremble so violently? What is causing our weather systems to become so unstable?
Us. We are the reason.
During the 20th century the world's population has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion.
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There is currently 7.6 billion people living on Earth, and that number increases every second of every day.
We are breeding ourselves into extinction.
If we keep consuming and destroying our own environment at the rate we are doing so, soon it will be too late for us.
Some scientists are saying we have already reached the point of no return when it comes to global warming.
Where are all the birds and bees? And butterflies?
In my own small piece of our planet, my budleigh tree once covered in butterflies, now hardly gets any of these colourful insects.
Along with many other birds, the sparrow - once the most common bird in England is now on the endangered species list.
If, as many believe the planet does have an interconnecting soul with the creatures who live on it - is it likely she will sit back and do nothing to protect herself, and the innocent flora and fauna we are in danger of destroying?
Personally, I believe Mother Earth getting ready to rid herself of the fleas?
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