Environ: To encircle, to surround.
Environment: Circumstances, objects or conditions by which some
thing is surrounded. The complex climate, edaphic, and biotic functions that act
upon an organism or ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.Universal Law: Before real, lasting, changes can be successfully and
beneficially implemented, one has to look beyond the immediate specific thing that one is
trying to change or save and look to the environment or surroundings from which something
is born or sustained.
The oldest, best selling book, the bible, says, "He who tries to
save his life, will most suredly lose it, but he that opts to lose sight of his specific
life in favor of focusing on the environment, the time honored, time proven Universal Laws
from which he came and is suspended: or in favor of knowing reality as it is and how
things work,....shall find it. The spirit of truth, (The Creator and Director of the
Universe) does not come in on demand, but its entrance requires a favorable environment,
the good ground or an honest heart."
Some years ago there was a specific effort made to save a certain
species of big horn sheep, all predators and diseases were immediately eliminated.
For thirty years this plan worked, the sheep population increased. Then
eventually in spite of this effort the sheep population once again started declining.
What happened? They failed to consider the time honored and time proven
Universal Laws in which the sheep were suspended. This plan allowed weakness,
defective genes to mix and thrive within the gene pool. They failed to see the
intimate connection between the sheep and their surroundings. They failed to see the
beneficial connection between the sheep and their enemies, predators or diseases.
They failed to investigate the surroundings of the sheep and how things worked.
Therefore, their efforts to save the sheep, if continued in their present direction,
would actually insure their demise.
"Schindler's List" is a movie about a terrible holocaust,
genocide committed against innocent citizens of this earth. It motivated people to
do anything they can to prevent another one. It has got people looking under every
nook and cranny for anyone supporting Hitler's views or philosophies. What they fail
to realize is that Hitler was born, he was merely a product of a very specific
environment. These very people who are working overtime to stop another holocaust
are actually supporting the very economic system or environment from which Hitler was
born. Because they failed to consider the environment from which Hitler came, their
efforts to prevent another holocaust are actually supporting an even bigger one, or the
thing they fear the most.
If the family farm is to be saved, if the capitalistic system on which
the U.S. has thrived for two hundred years is to survive, we must look at the environment
which is favoring their demise.
What is driving the creation of monster, global, corporations taking over all independent
business, farms, and depleting the environment of its life sustaining
resources?.....appetites out of control or beyond the reach of sound, balanced thinking or
reasoning. These appetites are what are creating, driving, feeding the huge
industrial global corporations. Since these global corporations are profit driven,
they not only cater to these appetites, but they are working overtime through
advertisements to get consumers to spend more money and consume more energy than this
earth can support or sustain because this empowers them.
If the small, independent farms, businesses, or the planet itself, is
to be saved from consumption, this environment where unsound, self-centered thinking
abounds must be changed.
In order to create an environment for the smaller independent farms and
businesses to survive (the time honored, time proven Universal Laws in place already are
on their side, as witnessed within the oldest living farming practices on earth contained
within the Attine Ants), we must educate the consumers or general public, wake them up and
motivate them to support sustainability, sustainable independent small farms and
businesses, to support an economic system which is fully competitive, not monopolistic,
and is compatible with the environment and the Universal Laws in which all living things
are suspended and surrounded.
Jerrold Hubbard
Johnson, Kansas
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