Are small efforts meaningful to protect life?

This is the earth. It has dying oceans. Polluted skies. Landfills with mountains of discarded junk. Hazardous waste. Toxic agricultural run-offs and non-potable water in many areas where humans live.

So what is the plastic straw syndrome?

This is the moment when the curtain is drawn open. In our case, it’s where we realize that switching to a paper straw (or any small scale measure) is simply a diversion to keep the curtain drawn. The truth may be that we as individuals can not make a difference in the demise of our current home, earth.

We go through life following a path of great mystery. Do we choose our own path, or is there some great destiny given to us at birth which is already written in the Akashic records?

So how are we creating global warming?

Some think there are natural cycles of the sun, moon, planets, and even asteroids creating all these floods, droughts, and earthquakes. The cycles are happening within a 4.5 billion year expanse. However, as seen on TV, the growing consensus should believe that mankind is creating too much poisonous gas. The cows are defecating all over the place and destroying the eco-system with methane. Tons of CO2 is pouring into sky by burning trees and fossil fuel. Therefore the atmosphere is changing so we best stop burning up our natural resources, stop eating meat, and start using paper straws. I believed that either one or the other or all could be true, til I understood geoengineering.

A word to our meat eaters

It’s my understanding that North America once had a buffalo heard the size of the state of Wyoming. How did we ever manifest our destination through all that methane? How did the indigenous peoples ever survive with all that buffalo poo? They ate meat (probably cooked or smoked over a wood fire). So, the “plastic straw” for the meat eaters would to eat lab grown meat made in a facility running off of wind and solar energy. This concept is as far out as mars.

Let’s just think about fossil fuels for a minute.

Burning oil, gas, and coal create CO2 and warms the planet by putting particles in the air trapping solar heat causing a greenhouse effect, and creating climate change. Hard to contradict. We love our cars and living in a warm home. In this case, the “plastic straw” would be turning down the thermostat and buying an electric car. All this while industry keeps viable by burning tons of coal, oil and gas so we can can manufacture electric cars and install charging stations supplied and operated off of fossil fuel. Electric cars run on batteries. Lithium usually. A natural resource found in places like Afghanistan. It seems we are a far cry from extracting these natural resources without the use of fossil fuel. It makes sense that to really make a difference in CO2 emissions we would need to halt industry.

Our dependence on oil will morph into a dependence on lithium.

When we switch to battery-propelled cars we are producing mega-tons of CO2 through collecting natural resources, manufacturing, and charging stations. This is the plastic straw syndrome. A philosophy that buying an electric car, the actions of the little people (the individual), will end climate change.
If we put our heads together to develop nuclear fusion and other viable alternatives, instead of funding energy wars, we may end up on a predestined path that we can live with. This will take more than an individual sucking down a smoothie with a giant paper straw.

Geo Engineering

We don’t hear much about geo-engineering, now called climate-engineering. While we’re worried about fossil fuels causing climate change we forget that for decades man has been controlling the weather. We have heard about seeding clouds to create rain (sometime creating floods). Why don’t we hear more about this forced climate modification? It’s secret, it’s military, it’s war. This is the curtain that may never be drawn back. We will sip on our paper straws while driving our electric cars and think we are solving the enormous problem of continuing human existence.

Whether we limit burning fossil fuel or go nuclear, there are still unexposed perhaps diabolical mysteries that may be the biggest of all plastic straws. The future has never been more concerning than the current trend of ending life here on earth. If we are destined to emigrate an elite few to another planet to save us from our own undoing we may have not learned what is needed.