A song to listen to as you read this.
In nursing there is the ABC's. Airway, Breathing and Circulation. A nurse evaluates in that order to determine what action to take first to save a person's life.
I used a similar formula in deciding how to expend my energy on environmental issues. Air, Water and Food, in that order. The basics. There is so much to do and so little time and resources to do it that for me I had to have some kind of decision tree.
In the macro I've learned it's not so much that one person has to take action in a particular order but as a species we do for human and even planetary survival. Too bad our communication as a species seems to have broken down over the eons. It seems humanity's collective self destructive ego trumps our survival instinct. I'm hoping and working for a miracle. Luckily there are others who are working with a collective survival instinct, too.
Air - I've been feeling powerless until I found this.
If you're called to it you can focus your work toward creating actions that are ultimately aimed at getting the CO2 levels back down to 350.
Water - GPUS Eco-Action Committee is in the process of creating "Water Watch." It will be a website collecting information and monitoring water issues around the country. This stems from a proposal passed by the Green Party National Committee in 2009. You may want to look at how to protect the watersheds in your area.
Food - A personal permaculture project. This is what I've decided to focus on. I'll have certification in August and hope to be able to use this new found information and skill for my friends, family and community.
It is only together that we can work for the survival of the planet and hopefully the survival of a human species. Demise of civilizations is nothing new but the consequences of our creations over that past few decades is globally destructive on many levels, including Air, Water and Food. Unless stopped most of humanity as we know it will die.
I expect there to be adaptive human species. The difficulties your grand children are having now may be witness to adaptive measures.
