State of Mine

So I've recently read that the Chacaltaya glaciers in Bolivia are melting away like ice cubes on hot tarmac. The perpetrator is a current political key phrase, Global you-know-what. The consequence other than the lost of a winter ski getaway for some may result in the lost of a freshwater reserve and hydroelectric power source that is potentially catastrophic to the people living in the valleys below. Bolivia is South America’s poorest nation, landlocked with its people generally surviving with less than USD$1 a day. How then could it be possibly fair for these people to be the unknowing and unfortunate whipping boy for the industrial nations? Its like waking up one morning to the sound of a wrecking ball plough through your apartment because the landlord couldn’t pay his bills, because that amounts to the same thing here. That then brings us nicely to the current state of affairs.

The current world we live in is a much more dynamic place than the one that our fathers and their father’s father inherited. A big bowl of possibilities and consequences consisting of many parallel worlds that would in some magnificent way be made to blend or collide into coherency or obliteration if we so choose. And therein lies the catch 22, as WC pointed out, no matter what we choose to do or not, time marches on. Can we really change the future that is already happening? Can we really put a finger or figure wherein the point of no return lies? Can we in some way make a real difference? All are hard questions with no easy answers. Or are we asking the wrong questions?

So having come full circle and ending up nowhere. I congratulate you for coming thus far.