Someone Had to Say It: A New Approach to Confronting Our Environmental Crises

By Judith A. Kovacs

Someone Had to Say It:

A New Approach to Confronting Our Environmental Crises

 

Excerpts from the work:

 

            "Right now at this crossroads, with human beings confronting the destructive consequences of their unrelenting use and consumption of the Earth's resources in the form of the environmental crises that are threatening to destroy them, the Earth is holding all the cards.  And the game?  As is apparent across the planet in the unfolding environmental crises to which unrelenting human use and consumption of the Earth's resources have led, while the Earth can be depleted, damaged and torn to shreds by human use, misuse and consumption of its resources, the Earth can't be gamed, it can't grifted, it can't be conned and it can't be cheated.  Because in the game of what human beings take from the Earth in the name of their progress, their comforts, pleasure and fulfillment, and what the Earth can give to sustaining human life in return, the Earth will always win and humanity will always lose.  It's a no brainer.  The Earth cannot give what the Earth does not have to give."

 

          "The Someone Had to Say It solution is a provocative, profound, prophetic, yet practical and workable solution for confronting the Earth's environmental crises and one that if human beings still possess the capacity to choose hope over despair, right over wrong and life over death, is the one for which there is none better."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Judith A. Kovacs
• Release date: Sep 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215797044

Book preview

A Few Words of Introduction

These are our times and our responsibilities.  Every human being has a sacred duty to protect the welfare of our Mother Earth from whom all life comes.  In order to do this, we must recognize the enemy – the one within us.  We must begin with ourselves.

Leon Shenandoah

One step forward, one step back.  Half a step forward, three steps back.  No steps forward, all steps back.  You’re listening to the heartbeat of humanity as it flounders and fails in its efforts to resolve its environmental crises that now threaten the sustainability of all life, including human life, on Earth.

As for those efforts, can anyone today point to any tangible and quantifiable evidence of even a single solution that humanity has conceived and implemented to completely and permanently resolve at least one of its environmental threats or crises?  Has science succeeded in doing so?  How about technology?  Any solutions there?  Economics?  Mathematics?  Law?  Politics?  Academia?  Philosophy?  Any combined effort of any fields of human endeavor?  Or have those endeavors become no more than dark places in which to conceal the unpleasant truths about how and why humanity finds itself being overtaken by environmental crises of its own making?

Sometimes unpleasant truths can hurt and sometimes solutions to the challenges revealed by those truths can hurt a little too.  But after all of the failures, if a truthful solution that may hurt a little can bring an end to humanity’s environmental threats and crises and protect and preserve the Earth and the life it sustains, then a truthful solution that may hurt a little can be a good solution.  In fact, it may even be the best one.

Someone Had to Say It unveils the unpleasant truths of the how and why of humanity’s environmental crises, but it also proposes a truthful approach to confronting and resolving them.

Be forewarned, though. The unpleasant truths may be pills that are a little hard to swallow.  And the solution may leave humanity feeling a little like someone slammed the brakes on its supersonic pursuit of illusions of happiness and fulfillment, all achieved at the expense of the Earth.

Yet, to its credit, Someone Had to Say It holds real potential for transforming the failure and anguish – even the arrogance, the apathy and the denial – of the citizens of the Earth into an empowering experience that can provide the best odds that they will survive their environmental crises and that they and the Earth – their Earth – will emerge abundant and sustaining as they continue their pursuit of happiness and fulfillment upon it, this time in truth.

The Someone Had to Say It solution is a provocative, profound, prophetic, yet practical and workable solution for confronting the Earth’s environmental crises and one that if human beings still possess the capacity to choose hope over despair, right over wrong and life over death, is a solution for which there is none better.

Chapter 1

How Did It All Go So Wrong?

We have come to this not because of the wrongdoing of one person in particular; it is a collective offense and we are all culprits, all of humanity.  Our crime is unrestrained selfishness, and all of humanity commits it.  Our reckless egoism throws all of nature off balance and everything goes awry.

Michael Laitman

This story begins with a question of immense importance to humanity in these times:

Why do divisiveness and failure continue to escalate and hopes continue to fade on every front – legislative, judicial, political, scientific, economic, social, moral and ethical – in the search for viable and enduring solutions to this nation’s and the world’s environmental crises?

The answer?  Alarmingly, there is none.  Yet.

As daunting as the search for an answer to the question may be, however, in light of what’s at stake for all living things on Earth if humanity’s environmental challenges are not resolved, giving up and doing nothing are not options.  Nor, as experience should have taught us by now, is rehashing the flawed and failed approaches of the past and present as the crises continue to worsen and multiply.

What is obviously called for under the circumstances is nothing less than a fresh and fearless approach to these challenges, beginning with elevating the discourse on the subject to a place beyond its current suffocating and paralyzing impasse.  More imperative, the required plan will have the potential to inspire a global commitment to a common, practical and time-sensitive solution to humanity’s environmental crises from which all life, and the Earth that sustains that life, will benefit.

That approach is the subject of this story.

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Where to begin?

First, reset the compass.  Do a 180 degree turnaround.  Look in an entirely different direction from the flawed and failed attempts.  Keep minds open to an alternative trajectory to address and resolve the crises.  And keep eyes wide open and always on the ultimate and only prize – a sustainable and sustaining Earth that can and will continue to support all life upon it.

Next, reframe the question.  Put aside the philosophical why of the dilemma that has thwarted the search and set the planet adrift, and ask instead questions that target the real issues, questions like,

How could humanity have veered so far from the reality and the truth of the causes and the destructive consequences of the environmental crises it now faces? and

What exactly is preventing human beings from devising common sense environmental restoration, reparation and protection solutions that will insure the preservation of the Earth to which they owe their very survival?

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