EARTH MATTERS: ELECTION AFTERMATH

22 Nov EARTH MATTERS: ELECTION AFTERMATH

Flags flying outside the United Nations

Sometimes, as a happily willing participant in humanity’s evolving global experiment on Earth, I “imagine” or more accurately I conduct a comparative analysis of protocol indicators over time to theorize the present and future needs of mankind without disrupting Earth’s natural energy balance.

On the last page, it won’t be population size, affluence, or technology that will be the driving force for creating a sustainable future for life on Earth. Those large-scale factors, on the surface, are assets that migrate, grow, and develop at a seemingly predicable rate with limited variability. However, on the sub-surface it appears the perception of a community, regardless of its scale or scope, influences a decision-making process that facilitates the interaction and interrelationship between society, economy, and environment. Thus, people are the power behind the pen. It is our perception that has the greatest capacity to guide our destiny.

We have become an over-developed country dependent on a finite fossil-fuel resource for energy –without being held accountable for our actions. In other words, our country grew up spoiled, grew old, and retired to the La-Z-Boy. We have become content with our subsidized energy and low-cost products produced overseas. We have turned a blind eye to the thousands of young people who died a painful death caused by toxic poisoning from our computer/electronic waste shipped overseas after we refused to sign an international treaty designed to prevent this tragedy.

In this past, historically significant presidential election, President Barack Obama won by appealing to nature’s universal law: “Change is constant.” Supported by global research over time, our president understands that the U.S. has the highest skilled labor sector in the world, the greatest amount of affluence to capitalize a change, and the technology ready to implement in the present, along with supporting science development for future generations. Therefore, the clear course of action to embrace change and capitalize on America’s world-leading community capacity involves fostering a shift in Americans’ perception from continuing to fiscally support squeezing blood from the fossil fuel turnip to encouraging development of domestically produced renewable energy. In doing so, we could create new economic opportunities that capitalize on our country’s rarified value-added educational system and technological assets.

The results of the election also offer a great opportunity to revise our “social behavior” as world leaders and shift towards placing emphasis on equality regardless of a person’s biological sex or socially constructed gender, race, or economic stratification.

Giant Weta

When the Giant Weta grasshopper arrived on the islands of New Zealand it discovered to its delight that its new environment contained no predators and it no longer needed its wings to fly out of harm’s way. Consequently, over time the grasshopper shed its wings. The Weta’s change of perception influenced an adaptive biological change also known as evolution.

Stepping into our future, we need to shed the past and adapt to our changing world by embracing opportunities derived from global diversity.

Instead of walls, we need bridges.