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What has the planet to do with spirituality?

We are perceiving ourselves as separate entities from our environment. There is our body and we presume it is "us". Then there is everything else that is not our body, "not us", as we think: people, things, plants, animals, the sky, the 4 elements, Climate Change and so on. At first sight - yes, it seems to be not our body, therefore it can't be us.

We might have come across the notion that nothing is separate from us, everything is interdependent. You can see it from a very ordinary 3D-perspective and find it to be true: without the 4 elements our body would not exist. Without the person who takes your garbage from your doorsteps every week or every fortnight you would have to bring it to the tip yourself. You would therefore have less time to access the internet and wouldn't share your journey with others on this website. Thus an intrinsic part that defines what you are wouldn't be developed. Since you _are_ reading these lines you are using the service of the garbage collection, pay the garbage man and he in turn can affort to buy your book, send his children to your school, shop in your supermarket, get a tyre at your service station replaced ... whatever your profession is. In this way you are connected with him, as well as every other human being. 

We need plants and animals and their precisely attuned co-dependence to have something to eat. They, just like us they are depending on the 4 elements. The 4 elements depend on us releasing them into their system again.

You can see the interdependence of everything from the perspective of Quantum Physics where scientists are finding evidence that everything that we perceive is the product of thoughts.

You can look from the perspective of Buddhism where everything comes from the mind and where our pure nature is seen as a non-doer. Everything that is is a product of Karma, a product of previous thoughts and actions which again becomes the cause for the following thoughts and actions.

No matter if you believe in Buddhism or in the interpretation of Quantum Physics - there is for sure something amongst these lines that you could agree on, right?

So no matter how you look at it: everything is one. You are me. You are these lines. You are the floor below you and the screen in front of you. If that all is true, what is climate change? You. What is the cause for draught? You. Who is responsible for the increasing numbers of cancer? You. Why are endangered species dying? Because of you!

Now this is all a bit too much! You can't believe this, how could you be responsible for all this!? See, that is how deep our defense mechanism is ingrained in us. How could you be responsible for all these undesirable things in the world? A minute earlier you agreed that you are interdependent with everything, ....but not the bad things of course. If everybody thought that way, then, well, then we would be exactly where we are right now - close to a global breakdown.

Just open your eyes - you are interdependent with the climate, it doesn't have an intrinsic existence - and the change to the better comes from you. Change happens first in your acceptance of your responsibility. ...you are responsible in every second. How many lights are switched on in your home right now that are unnecessary? How many devices are on stand-by? How many of your windows are open when the heater/ air conditioning is on? Who many extra miles did you drive today just to get your groceries for a few cents cheaper? How many new clothes did you buy in the last months just to entertain yourself?
The real problem is not the deed itself, it is the habbit or the belief and ignorance behind the deed. Please, for your own sake, become aware of your very real impact on the climate. You are what you see. To turn the planet around is your task and no one else's. Please make sure that you are keeping yourself alive.