Culpability

 

I woke up earlier and turned on the tv and PBS had a documentary on the some of the planetary changes going on. "Humans are the driving force of major changes to the planet's ecosystem." As the Earth has gone through cycles of change and upheaval, the scientists have given names to those cycles. The current cycle, Anthropocene, because we are in the Age of Humanism. We are the change and it is not good. Other cycles took millions of years and we will manage to do it in a few generations.  I believe the Universe or the Great Mother will have to step in a take control.  Maybe COVID was the wake-up call we did not answer, the time-out we didn't take. As a child when punished, it was a time out in the corner or the room, maybe even no dinner, or two weeks of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. If we did not learn our lesson the punishment was severe. I fear Mother Nature is not happy with her gifts of nature and the World and we will soon have to answer.