Mystical Environmental Philosophy

The life-forms of the Earth do cheer.For, my Mysterious Prince is here!Come out of your seclusion.Free the human species from its delusion!Use your unique insight, wisdom & learning.Prevent this beautiful world from burning!F. H.The purpose of this book is to enable you to come to appreciate the force that propels the unfolding of the Universe. This unfolding encompasses everything, from the formation of planets, to the development of human culture. This force has inevitably brought forth the world that we live in today: a world dominated by technology, a world marked by the human transformation of the face of the Earth, a world which is in grave peril from the phenomenon of global warming.The coming into being of this world was always on the cards. The coming into being of this world is not a freakish accident. This world, with its technology, its human transformation, and its global warming, is a part of the unfolding Universe, a part of our unfolding Solar System, as it progresses through the millennia to increasingly optimal states.When one comes to know the force that propels the unfolding of the Universe, then one will know that attempting to deal with the phenomenon of global warming through fossil fuel emission reduction efforts is misplaced. Such efforts will achieve nothing good. Let us hope that they do not do too much harm, by distracting us from the actions that are needed to save life on Earth from the impending peril that it faces from the phenomenon of global warming.If fossil fuel emission reduction efforts continue to be the mainstay of our response to global warming, the result will be significant global warming in the upcoming decades and centuries. This global warming will cause significant climate change, and the extreme flooding and heat events that this entails will, in turn, cause immense death and suffering that could have been avoided. If fossil fuel emission reduction efforts are the mainstay of our response to the phenomenon of global warming, then the ultimate result will be the obliteration of life on Earth.The force that propels the unfolding of the Universe has already, inevitably, taken us to the place where fossil fuel emission reduction efforts are a hopeless distraction. Such efforts are analogous to attempting to extinguish a 2000 hectare blazing inferno by using the water that is in a child’s water pistol. This is the tragic state that we are currently in; we have been deluded into believing that using the child’s water pistol is a good idea. If we focus on fossil fuel emission reduction efforts as our strategy to avert global warming, and to avert death and suffering, then the result will be massive global warming and immense death and suffering. Immense death and suffering that could have been avoided if we retired the pistol and took a different approach.We are cosmic puppets, who have temporarily been deluded into believing that we are fundamentally a destructive parasite, a destroyer of life. We have been temporarily deluded into believing that it is solely our actions that have put the planet in peril, and that we therefore need to act quickly to reign in our activities, to minimise our impact on the Earth, and thereby ’save the planet’. In reality, averting calamity for life on Earth requires us to simply embrace who we are, embrace what we are, to power forward, and to embrace our destiny.