Why Global Warming is not bad
7
October 2006
Al Gore (once the next president of the USA) visited Holland to
promote his documentary about the disasters of Global Warming. In
some past, I worried about Global Warming, the greenhouse effect (or
rather, the effects of the greenhouse effect, as I was taught in my
physics classes) and nuclear energy as well. I suppose that was very
Green of me... Nowadays I question myself from two angles: the
naturalistic one and the non-dual one. From a naturalistic point of
view: does it really matter that Global Warming is about to destroy
a significant part of life on earth? Ever since the earth got
created 4.5 billion years ago, nature has evolved through all kinds
of stages and learned to adapt itself after various disasters. The
dinosaurs were a nice concept (bigger is better), but they were
stupid enough to become extinct after a meteorite hit the earth (no
matter what Steven Spielberg leads us to believe). After that, new
life forms turned up, including us humans, who are arrogant enough
to believe to be the cutting edge of creation and hence allowed to
dominate the rest of creation. So if global warming is going to
destroy us: what's lost? New life forms will pop up, evolution will
start all over again and nature will take its way. From a non-dual
point of view: I am bout to parrot what Ken Wilber wrote after the
events of 9/11. Did anything happen anyhow? Say we all get destroyed
in a flood (which is likely in my place in the world, given that I
live in The Netherlands below sea-level). Or in a nuclear war (which
is likely elsewhere in the world, given the stupid fucks of leaders
that are out there). As we are all just creative appearances of
Spirit (being the ground of all life forms), nothing gets lost when
all humanity is destroyed. Spirit in its infinite creativity will
find another way to express itself in an appropriate way. Spirit
does not get destroyed, as you cannot destroy the foundation of What
Is. Spirit as the source of everything will just continue its "game"
(as Ramakrishna called it) without bothering about what has
disappeared in some fraction of its existence. So Global Warming is
not bad. It is only bad from the egocentric perspective of humans
that think they are worth to stay where they are and as they are.
