Video: Me

Song: Silent Spring, Massive Attack

Have you wondered why we haven’t given any thought to what happens to us if our planet get’s damaged?

Doesn’t it strike you as odd that we don’t push for a society that creates swarms of scientists dedicated to one job… monitoring and understanding our planet to make sure our species can continue living on it.

Considering that we are pumping chemicals, waste materials, and by-products of human life into our world that would never have been here naturally, I ask for a new urgency to make this change.  The entire purpose of human life needs to change.

It starts with your decisions.  Whether you choose education over entertainment. Whether you choose consideration over consumerism.  It all starts with our individual actions.

The video you just watched was taken by NASA’s GEOS-5 atmospheric analysis satellite at a 7-kilometer resolution with the general circulation model.  This is ACTUAL footage of the Earth from space.  Real pictures… put together to make a video.

The GEOS-5 atmospheric model was developed by NASA Goddard’s scientists. It’s based on the Earth System Modeling Framework, an open source project “for building climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science software applications.”

When you loop together the raw data and make a video, and speed it up a little you realize something magnificient is going on.  The planet is breathing.

What I mean by that is if you look over all the forests on the globe, there is a creation of weather.  Water vapor from the expiration and inspiration of the trees.  We all know this, and learned this as children.  But our technology has given us the chance to do something very rare in nature.

The life span of an ant is about 90 days.  But ants don’t perceive these ninety days as how we perceive ninety days.  Indeed the perception of time is a discussion that still baffles quantum physicists.  Rather, appreciating the relativity in all of this harmony called nature is all you need.  If you understand that an ant perceives 90 days as an entire lifetime, then all you have to do is scale yourself as the ant like existence you really are in relation to this planet and you realize that the Earth is also a living being.  Living… on a different scale.

The discussion is not about whether CO2 is the culprit of climate change, or even if climate change even exists.  The discussion is about you looking around and seeing how we have become a society that worships monetary satisfaction over science.  We value entertainment and idolize celebrities.  Once again I am left thinking is this all that humanity is good for?

I think we owe our home a lot more than outlet stores in the deserts, massive air conditioned structures to store excess stuff, and an unrelenting appetite for greed, destruction, mass consumption and lambastic entertainment.

Just think about it… she’s breathing.