Blind Men Versus One Eye Man

In the land of the blind, the one eye man is King!

This old but wise adage still rings true today because sight and insight to problems even in this day and age is still lacking as the masses are still trapped in their mindset, incapacitated by their own paradigm paralysis.

Today, most of us ought to be aware as well as be concerned about human caused global warming and climate change, yet only a few of us are taking positive and practical actions to walk our talk because we are not prepared to be inconvenienced.

We love our energy guzzling and waste creating lifestyle and while we pay great lip service to the cause of tackling climate change and global warming, we, if anything at all, do very little to match our words with deeds.

We are, generally, blind and being blind, we perceive the whole picture of the dire state of the environment only in parts; not the whole.

Just like as in the famous Sufi story of the blind men and the elephant, every blind man perceive the unfamiliar animal according to their own "feelings", the one who felt the elephant's trunk insisted that the elephant is like a snake; the tail, a snake; the belly, a wall and the leg, a tree.

Even if we combined the collective intelligence of the blind men towards the attempted deciphering of an unfamiliar animal (problem), we will never get any wiser or further.

What is needed is a sighted person, even half a sighted person will do: with just one eye or a pair of partially sighted eyes, to see the whole picture.

Today's problems call for new solutions, not those of yesterdays but of visionary caliber.

The vision that the whole Cosmos is built upon the twin foundation of sustainability and renewal-ability, without which, the system will self implode and collapse

The Earth sustains and renews itself, with or without human beings and really, human beings are redundant to the Earth in so far as the long term viability of the Earth is concerned.

Imagine planet Earth devoid of homa sapiens, plants will continue to thrive, animals will continue to survive on the thriving plants and other animals that feed on plants.

Take away the plants and there will be no animals and humans.

We need just one, not, two eyes to see the dire state of the environment we are in, but the good news is that, we still have hope to turn the environment around, if we act very tough and act now.