‘Don’t hurt nature:’ words to live by

The golden rule that many of us try to live by is “Don’t do to others what you would not have them do to you.” All major religions have adopted this principle, but unfortunately we have made it anthropocentric. So-called primitive peoples didn’t. They showed great reverence for nature. If humans don’t again include nature in our Golden Rule and vote to mitigate climate change, nature will respond with more drought, extreme weather and sea-level rise.

If you don’t believe that there is a limit to our ability to insult nature, swallow your willful ignorance or conformational bias and study best-expert, learned sources. For comparison, study manipulative, sound-bite alternate-facts purchased by dark money. If you don’t think that post Arab Spring mass migrations to Europe were impacted by drought and lack of potable water in North Africa, study more.

Nature cares not about politics, economics or religion. It responds only to physics, chemistry and geology. The fossil-fuel vested interests and their puppet politicians will be able to take care of their grandchildren, but apparently do not care enough about yours.

This story was originally published December 13, 2017 at 6:48 PM with the headline "‘Don’t hurt nature:’ words to live by."