23-03-2024, 10:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-03-2024, 10:37 AM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
We are still advancing medical science and discovering old knowledge has some serious truths within it. Hedge witchery among old wives and gardeners has always felt comfortable with the idea of how our bodies and the environment work together. The ancient food is medicine idea is increasingly becoming mainstream, albeit with varying prescriptions for healthy regimes that seem to reflect fashion, and industry lobbying.
I cannot help understanding that when a population expands dramatically to dominate and overwhelm a previously diverse environment consequences follow as that environment tries to rebalance itself. Humanity has become an infestation, at the expense of multitudes of other lives, changing and degrading the planet that supports us, and seems reluctant to correct the situation by any real action at all, let alone those major moves that might help promote a return to equilibrium.
While individuals may make the considered choices that have positive benefits, the bigger picture means the individual fades out of focus when it comes to consequences.
Autoimmune diseases and conditions, cancers, environmental toxicity, wars that cause devastation, climate change that leads to famine and destruction, the increasing incidence of mental health issues, pressure on social systems and civility - all traceable back to overcrowding, to population pressures. To the human self interest that puts our species survival at risk, just as it has put so many others at risk, and then to extinction.
And there is no vaccine for that.
I cannot help understanding that when a population expands dramatically to dominate and overwhelm a previously diverse environment consequences follow as that environment tries to rebalance itself. Humanity has become an infestation, at the expense of multitudes of other lives, changing and degrading the planet that supports us, and seems reluctant to correct the situation by any real action at all, let alone those major moves that might help promote a return to equilibrium.
While individuals may make the considered choices that have positive benefits, the bigger picture means the individual fades out of focus when it comes to consequences.
Autoimmune diseases and conditions, cancers, environmental toxicity, wars that cause devastation, climate change that leads to famine and destruction, the increasing incidence of mental health issues, pressure on social systems and civility - all traceable back to overcrowding, to population pressures. To the human self interest that puts our species survival at risk, just as it has put so many others at risk, and then to extinction.
And there is no vaccine for that.