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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Happy Holidays Mother Earth

As we plan to sit down with family and friends this week to give thanks for all that we have, perhaps one of the biggest “Thank you” should go to Mother Earth for putting up with all of our blunders. Earth really has taken a lot of abuse from us humans and yet keeps providing for us and all the other species. It’s not an easy task and it keeps getting harder.
Today the threats to our environment are even clearer to see. The year is 2009 and the earth is in the midst of a dramatic climate change conference. Due to man’s domination of the planet and the carbon dioxide produced as a by product and flows into our atmosphere, everything we do adds up.

We live in a world where climate change, deforestation, holes in the ozone layer, water scarcity and air pollution are growing sources of concern. Finding a solution as individuals and as nations against the environmental crisis has never been greater.

My prayer to the World Leaders at Copenhagen is that every person there has the same dream about what will happen if all of us don't start taking care of each other and Mother Earth; and that every person on earth sees what they can do to help save humanity and Mother Earth.

It has been a long, difficult two weeks in Copenhagen. The protests, the stalling discussions, the walkouts, the deadlock, the deal or no deal...and while a preliminary accord has been reached, it is only a start, and a lot more work is needed to come up with a stable and comprehensive deal. It will take time to understand the full implications of the conference. An accord was hashed out in the final hours. But this is very clearly the beginning, not the end of discussions.

As you read this column, the winter solstice has come (December 21st) which was the pagan holiday that inevitably became Christmas. As you can read, I began the column with a greeting of Happy Holidays. “Happy Holidays” is simply a term that encompasses all of those celebrations we engage in during the months of December and January.

I am wishing the best for all of the celebrations. Therefore, those of you that celebrate Christmas have a happy, healthy and green Christmas and for those of you that celebrate a holiday of a different name or persuasion – Happy Holidays and health and happiness. For this is the season to celebrate that which you cherish the most: your faith in that which is greater than you, including Mother Earth.

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