Global Warming... Ideas?

Clearly, we humans are a (if not "the") major factor in global warming. Green house gases are belching out of our factories, service industries, cars, and homes, temperatures are rising, the oceans are changing, animals are suffering, and the poor are starting to suffer because of our excesses and drive for "economic development."

I remember a BBC series on climate change that was posted last year. In addition to presenting some excellent scientific information, it gave some great suggestions that individuals can help stop and reverse global warming. One of them was to invest in advanced technologies that alleviate global warming. This was one of the reasons that, when I needed to buy a vehicle, I bought a Prius instead of a conventionally powered car.

What are some of the things you have done to help fight global warming?

"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organise a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organise it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallised; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others."

This quote by Krishnamurti represents a revolutionary way of considering one's life. I decided to begin this blog with this post because, while I do not subscribe to all of Krishnamurti's views, I find this statement profoundly powerful. In a time when the "religion" of consumer capitalism and other ...isms form humankind into clumps and queues of opposing artificial identities, Truth exist in a place untouched by organization and competition. Where are your wandering?