What If

WHAT IF

Its Easter Sunday, the weather is starting to change, suns out today and the grass is growing. We spent the morning taking care of chores, marking lambs, turning them and their mothers, out of the lambing jugs. Was an enjoyable sight watching the young ones experience their first adventure out in the big world! The new lambs are trying to run and jump, with their mothers following nervously keeping track of them. These are some of the most enjoyable and looked forward scenes around here every year. It is a scene that has been repeated through our history, for thousands of years and one that we expect to continue.

Now to the what if part of this post! I have been reading and listing to all of the commentary and study about Global Warming the effects it’s going to have on man kind and the world we live in. I am sure that, we as humans have had and will continue to have an effect on the environment and the conditions in which we live. How much of an effect we have I don’t know, there are a lot of different camps with different ideas, scenarios and out comes for the future. It does seem to me although that every one is concentrating on the causes, effects and solutions to the problem of Global Warming. I have not heard too much thought given to what we are going to do, if it does in fact happen. We as humans are far to used to being able to control our destiny, the future and all that surrounds us. For the last thousands of years we have as a species been evolving and progressing in our ability to control our immediate environment and way of life. We have progressed from hunter gathers to farmers to a major portion of us living in an urban environment, with no idea of the actual difficulties involved in survival. We have increased our average life span, concurred many of the diseases that took many of us at an early age.

SO, WHAT IF? If global warming does happen, what are we going to do? What, where, when, and how are we going to grow the food we need to support the population? Where are the masses of people going that are displaced by this event. Will the nations of the world come together and work this out together or will we do as we have done in the past and look for the advantages that will make one or more better off and superior to all others. Will we look past the differences in each other and look at the world population as one species of animal, all worth saving. Are we going to use the available water for agricultural uses, to grow the necessary food, or are some going to continue to want their share for play and esthetics. Are we as a species going to work together to survive and adapt, or are we going to do as we have always done, and see how we can take advantage of the situation to gain more than our neighbor. We may be able to slow down, maybe even stop the condition call global warming, then again there may be nothing we can do but prepare for the future. This planet we live on has gone through many changes since its birth, and will go through many more before it to dies by what ever death awaits it. It has seen many different type of life evolve and disappear, only to be replaced by a form of life suitable to the conditions present at that time. As I said before, change is probably occurring to our world, whether we have a hand in it depends on who you listen to and believe is right

Can we as a species survive the change? It is not likely that our world will be as we know it, to believe that our world is going to stay the same and never change, would be the same as burying our head in the sand to not see the change coming. Our world is changing, we are changing, and our best hope for survival is to figure out how to adapt to the change. Those who did not and do not will be study material for the intelligent life of the future.

BE FLEXABLE, BE READY AND KEEP SMILING

D. Bleak