Amazing Speech

I was going to continue my post from yesterday, but I saw this amazing speech to the UN by a young girl. Sadly, she made the speech in 1992 and apparently no world leader paid any attention. Let's hope that spreading this video around the Internet will have a bigger effect than her speech did in 1992. Let's hope that people will wake up to the fact that we live on a small planet and that we are slowly but surely destroying it. We live in an interdependent world. None survives alone. We have the resources to create a world free of hunger and poverty yet we squander the wealth of our own country on wars and other foreign entanglements. Perhaps it is time for a change.

Scientology and Earth Day

Scientologists tend to be very environmentally aware (me for example: Earth Day and Me Being Smug ). A basic idea of Scientology is that none survive alone, life is a cooperative activity. A basic concept of Scientology is the Dynamics, which are urges to survival that we all have. Very briefly these urges are self, family, groups, mankind, life forms, physical universe, spiritual universe, infinity (or God). For a person to be living at his or her optimum that person must be operating ethically on all Dynamics.

"Looking out for number 1" is not a survival concept because it only takes into account self - what about all those other areas of life? People who operate only on a couple of dynamics are usually destructive to the Dynamics they are not operating on. For example, let's say an industrialist is out to make a lot of money for himself, his family and his stockholders. He may do things that are destructive to mankind, life forms and the physical universe, such as dumping toxic waste into a river to save the cost of processing it into something that is not toxic. This could kill people (mankind), fish, animals, and plants (life forms) and severely pollute the river, river banks, the sea and the sea shore (physical universe).

This fits in with the idea of Earth Day, because Earth Day is all about the life form and physical universe dynamics. These are areas of life that tend to get ignored in the day to day craziness of existence.

In Scientology, we have, "Safeguard and Improve Your Environment," which is a precept of The Way To Happiness, a non-religious, common sense moral code that Scientologists follow. You can read more here: Earth Day Colorado 08.

I've also included a public service announcement video on the subject.


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