by Obiora Embry

Created on: October 26, 2009   Last Updated: July 11, 2010

We are told that “green” is the new “thing,” yet seldom do we go beyond “being green”—an action often limited to reducing our energy consumption—to arrive at a deeper consciousness of thinking, living, behaving, and doing or eco-consciousness.  For US to survive the problems that we humans have created, it will take more than simple-minded actions or “being green” to undo our continued desecration, pillaging, and rape of Mother Earth.

In order to save ourselves before it's too late, we the people will have to act with a purpose and an understanding of the sacred and symbiotic relationship between the human body and Mother Earth that we rely upon for our survival.  We cannot switch from one evil to a lesser evil—from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent light (CFLs) bulbs,  from a gasoline engine to a hybrid gas/electric engine, or from energy powered by coal to nuclear or hydrogen, etc.—and hope that our misguided actions will immediately restore our only home, Gaia, to a stasis or equilibrium that will be able to sustain humans (rather a subspecies as we have been devolving since the Industrial Age).  A government and media-driven focus to perform simple-minded actions that can be done in-between commercial breaks, during a lull in a favorite TV show(s), or while pausing “live” TV is counterproductive to developing a deeper level of thinking or eco-consciousness. It goes beyond conserving electricity, recycling, and using “energy-efficient” products.  

We are foolish to think that we will be able to undo the damage before it's too late for “humanity” to survive without having a clear and holistic plan.  It's past time for us humans to (re)think how we view the natural environment—including each other as we come from the Earth and are “walking rocks.”  To heal Mother Earth for our continued survival, we must change the way we live our lives, and this means that we need to become responsible for our actions and conscious of the effects our actions have on the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, and the land from which our food grows.

We need to become quantum thinkers that look at our bodies and the Earth as interconnected complex systems that have a positive and negative effect on each other. This way of thinking is different from the classical thinking that has taught us that everything

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