PEACE AND CONSERVATION

We can wave our pens in the air as much as we want, but we can't save the environment or make stable peace on our planet

Earth has lost its way. Half the world seems to have lost its moral compass.

I am overwhelmed. I’ve spent the day thinking about how the volume will be ramped up on global warming, climate change, habitat destruction, and species extinction, if DJT invades Greenland.

The worlds largest island with 44 thousand kilometres of coastline is crucially important for earth’s environment.

Polar bears would dissapear in a single generation for starters.

The conservation of Greenland is more vital to the world than any region. You might think it’s an ice shelf where a small Inuit population live, but there is a plethora of wildlife, birdlife, and sealife despite freezing temperatures.

Sealife includes hooded and grey seals, harped seals and ringed seals, fin whales, beluga whales, blue whales, sperm whales, pilot whales, Greenland whales, minke whales, humpback whales, and narwhals. The Arctic Sea is rich in fish, and feed for sealife with halibut, Atlantic salmon, and cod.

Animals like Arctic wolves, hares, and foxes, musk ox, ermine, lemmings, wild carribou, polar bears, and reindeers. There are almost twenty thousand sorts of birds, from wheatears, gyrfalcons, gulls, ducks, puffins, peregrine falcons, ravens, cormorants, owls, albatross, and white-tailed eagles.

Digging for oil could pollute the area with an environmental disaster that destroys the entire arctic ecosystem, with massive flow on effects for climate change around the globe.

Meanwhile political unrest goes on and on, with wars that should have ended years ago, horrific ethnic cleansing, modern imperialism, radical radical far right racism, economic hardships, trade instability, systematic starvation, malnutrition, famine, drought, floods, and millions of refugees spending decades in makeshift camps. So much creating and perpetuating a continual state of stress.

It feels as if we've joined a zombie apocalypse, just without the zombies.

Personally, we have little impact on these huge world issues. We can only change ourselves, and gathered by the number of failed good intentions and new year’s resolutions in the first three weeks of the year, it’s tricky enough to change what we do ourselves.

We exert some influence to a handful of people at best. As individuals our impact seems as shrunken as a wrinkly old potato. But, we can change the impact where we live.

We can do our bit for the environment at home. We can conserve, reduce plastic, get solar power, go paperless, sort, recycle, reuse, compost, cooking at home from home grown fruit and veg. We can make our next car electric.

We can let peace reign supreme in our own homes and circle of friends.

It’s not that hard. Really.

Using connections and quiet calm, our home can become a sanctuary free from doom scrolling, a sacred space for good while we are there.

None of it is rocket science, but home is in our sphere of control. If we bring harmony there, and extend it to our neighbourhoods and communities, we will feel better about the continual crisis's around the globe. Not because we can change them, but in the hope that this too shall pass.

I can’t imagine peace on earth or conflict free countries anymore. But, I can imagine it where I live. IA peaceful place to live without daily conflict sounds brilliant, doesn’t it? It’s a shining goal worth working towards, I think.

A place of love where we can express genuine compassion for one another. A place to cover eachother in healing hands, backrubs, shoulder massages, quiet conversations, and phone-free dinners around a table where we tell each other the highlights of our day. Also smiles, hugs, kisses, and sofa snuggles to make peace and love where we live.

Habitat loss, halting climate change or global warming isn’t possible for us.

But, peace, love, consideration, and soothing, makes our homes tranquil.

Where we live won’t ever be perfect, but a mostly conflict-free, hate-free zone makes it more perfect than not. It doesn't cost us, but it can help heal us from anxiety and angst in the outer world, or at least take our mind off it a while.

All I am saying is give HOME PEACE A CHANCE.