Mother Earth is Fighting Back!  

hie, mother earth is revolting due to all the abuses carried out in the name of development and progress. too many developments are on and this has upset the nature of things. results : there are earthquakes in places of non existence earthquakes. more and more calamities are happeniung and in this year, there is an alarming increase of fires of all kinds such as bush fires, houses on fires, earthquakesetc. the damage is done but can man slows down and repair the damage.

Miracles are possible and the miracle here is individual awareness. What can an individual do?. There is plenty that an individual can do. It is right there in everyone’s house. One does not need to go far. Consume just enough water, Close the taps when not in use, repair the running/leaking taps, put off lights when not in use. cook just enough for the family and not to feed the garbage bin, store what is needed. Hoarding is a crime, go slow on electronics, buy only if the need is great, have a car pooling system, do not splurge on celebrations, teach children the value of conservation be it energy, water and other resource. What is the relationship between this and climate change one might ask. There is a cascading effect leading to reduction in global warming and less global warming will result in a sobre attitude of weather where it will go back to its old systematic habit being seasonal, raining at the right time, sunshine at the right time – what more can one ask for?

As somehow mentioned in Al Gore's "The Inconvenient Truth," it seems like we humans wouldn't learn until we really get punished hard. Al Gore showed an animation of a frog in water. When it heated up, he immediately realizes it and jumps out. In relation to humans, there was another animation where a frog was in water. It heated up, but he ignored it. He just stayed in it while it's burning hot. Most people don't realize Global Warming and that is so sad. Mother earth sure is trying to get back. Moreover, most of the activities of man that destroys nature is coming and biting back.

I think really intensive Global Warming awareness campaigns must be done...although I think environmentalists are trying as best as they could but people are just stubborn. I am from the Philippines. Thankfully, our house was not flooded but I was out of the house and the terrible typhoons didn't make it easy for me to get back home with strong winds, heavy rains, and flooded areas. It took me 5 hours to get home while my friend got stuck at the metro rail station (opposite of subways, something like the "above the road" train tracks of new york). After the typhoons, I still see people relentlessly throw garbage on the road (Yes, unfortunately, people here have no discipline when it comes to garbage disposal. People would throw anything from candy wrappers, water bottles, to fastfood styrofoam packages) I really want to scold them or something. They really don't learn their lesson and I hope mother nature bites back at them...only them who don't give a care about the earth.

When we 'catch' a virus or a 'bug', such as a cold, the 'flu or other more serious diseases, our bodies react by creating antibodies and changing the conditions to control those bugs. When we have a cold, the sneezing, the runny nose and the fever are not really due to the virus but our body's active reaction to it and a natural process in restoring the balance.

Our bodies contain many bacteria (and viruses) which live in symbiosis with us. They don't make us sick and some of them actually are necessary (and we might get sick if we weren't hosts to them ... an example is the bacteria in our stomachs and intestines which help us digest our food).

Also, not all coughs, sneezes and fevers are due to viruses. Sometimes I cough because of smoke, sneeze because I have smelt pepper or get a fever because it is simply too darned hot!

'Mother Earth' or 'Gaiea' as some people like to call this ball of rock surrounded by an atmosphere is, in a certain sense, a living organism composed of many different forms of life. Humans are just one of these symbiotic organisms of Gaiea and, because of our activities, can sometimes influence the way that She behaves. Not every cough and sneeze and fever she displays, however, is due to us. I don't think that (at the moment) you can blame earthquakes or volcanoes on human activity but, to a certain extent, we can hold ourselves responsible for an imbalance of carbon dioxide and other gases which affects our atmosphere and therefore the weather.

Even before humans arrived on Earth, there were earthquakes, volcanoes, periods of excessive warmth and cold and many other disturbances to the rather narrow set of conditions which we call 'viable'. On the other hand, other organisms might consider what we call 'equable' to be too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too oxygenated or whatever.

We are really very presumptive to consider ourselves the acme and final version of life on our planet. We are not really very adaptable and have not been around for very long - just the wink of an eye in terms of the age of the Earth. We pride ourselves on our ability to think and communicate but we really know very little about the way other organisms think and communicate because we tend to look at everything else in terms of the way we do things (and we have imagined ourselves a 'God' who is essentially 'human').

The Earth ('Gaiea') is sending us messages all the time. It is us who tends to misinterpret and mishear the messages (if we hear them at all). Humanity is really sick. We are a growth that has gone wrong and may even be out of control as far as our host, the Earth, is concerned.

ya i too feel the same.
we did many harms to mother nature and i think that she lost her patience and mercy on us because of our deeds.
global warming.............melting polar ice caps
pollution through vehicles..............ozone layer depletion
excess co2 into atmosphere from industries...............climatic disturbances like tornadoes and cyclones
and what next???

Yes,,,,,,
I agree that person

Hi jonjee, there can be many factors for our mother earth behaving like this. As owlwings pointed out, there are other planets and their moons that have earthquakes and volcanoes, and storms, so we cant be solely responsible. And such calamities have been there in the past as well, so I cant really blame us entirely. There may also be something in relation to the sun. May be we are moving closer fractionally, because of which ice caps are melting. Or it may be something due to some cosmic phenomenon, which occurs once in ten thousand years, and we are just witnessing it. There may be no previous record of it because nobody knew how to write! Its too early to blame it on our habits alone. Having said that, I love trees, and I hate it when people fell them, and I do realize the bad effects of plastic bags. So those two definitely need to be addressed.

See hailstones coming down as big as tennis balls.
Nothing unusual, our midwest sees this all the time, always has, some even get the size of softballs in the bigger thunderstorms.

Polar caps are melting fast before our eyes.
Actually, no they're not, common misconception. They melt a bit and refreeze again in seasonal fashion, nothing unsusal.

Sea levels are moving up.
There is no data at all that demonstrates any signifigant increase in sea levels world wide.

Flooding is a regular occurrence.
Yes, it is...again, always has been, whats so unusual about it?

And... lately earthquakes that hit Haiti and Chile
And what exactly has that got to do with weather or global warming? Now your talking about something COMPLETELY different that humans have no power over or effect on, nor is there any signifigant increase in earth quake activity world wide..it's just earth doing what earth does.

True,jonjee,mother earth is fighiting back!

You are absolutely right. What's happening now with our environment, the weather, climate temperature, the catastrophic extent of a weather/climate disturbance are all but the result of man's greed, folly and lack of concern to Mother Nature and natural surroundings. If you're old enough to compare the climate change of say, 50 years ago, you'll surely feel that the sun's heat of today is almost unbearable and searing; the cold weather is almost always close to freezing. Forest and rivers are gone together with the wild animals, birds and fishes that make them their habitat. Most of these beautiful creatures are gone or reduced to the point of extinction. Flash floods are everywhere where before you never dreamed that it would occur in your locality - all because of indiscriminate garbage disposal, deforestation and irresponsible destruction of natural terrain. We can only sigh unless we do something about it NOW! The solution to all these is to start with each and everyone of us - our self-awareness of our environment, its preservation and in our own small way help make people contribute and respond to rehabilitate and care for Mother Nature not just for us but for generations to come.