17/10/2025
Nature has a way of adapting to everything we throw at it.
Humans in their ego think that they are destroying the planet, irreversibly changing things for the worse.
Well the planet has been here before, many times!
I read recently in a geology book that Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh is an extinct volcano,
That
It's been the floor of the ocean,
the summit of a mountain range,
a desert,
a rain forest,
an ice sheet
and
at the moment the highest point of the city of Edinburgh.
It's some of the oldest known rock on the planet.
It's seen it all and we are just a tiny iteration, or irritation, depending on your view, of its experience.
So as we march, or are marched, towards Net Zero. Doing our best to save a planet that couldn't care less and will be here well after we are gone.
Ask yourself:
Does the Harlem Raccoon care that it lives in the middle of a city?
Is it annoyed that we give it free food, junk food at that and it doesn't have to hunt for it in the wild.
You see nature adapts, always.
No matter what we do, or try, or fix, or change.
The complexity of life and the multitude of interwoven relationships are impossible to fathom.
How can you predict what will happen if you raise a windfarm?
Buy an electric car?
Go carbon neutral, what does that actually mean in practice? Off-setting it how?
Plant trees, what trees and where?
Sit on a flight from JFK to Edinburgh?
Recycle? How do you know what happens at the end point?
Discover and use a fungus to digest plastics?
Use bamboo toilet paper?
Grow a garden?
Keep.your own animals to eat
Does any of it make any difference at all.
The volcanoes and earthquakes will continue,
Floods and fires,
Ice forms and melts,
Weather is unpredictable,
We all live and all die.
How about instead of stressing all the time about it, we tried to realise we are actually an integral part of the system.
Part of the symbiosis,
and tried to live as part of it, rather than above or outside of it.
What would that look like?
What makes most sense?
Be curious, live with love, joy and kindness.
Good things might happen.
The Harlem Raccoon doesn't care either way.
He's got free food!
