An Environmental Perspective

Rather than God-dess giv­ing humans domin­ion over other species and the envi­ron­ment, we are given stew­ard­ship of them–responsibility to care for them. In today’s urban envi­ron­ments we tend to loose our con­nec­tion with nature, and mate­ri­al­is­tic cap­i­tal­ism dominates.

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One of the main under­ly­ing causes dri­ving a mul­ti­plic­ity of prob­lems is rapid pop­u­la­tion growth that takes us beyond the car­ry­ing capac­ity of mother earth. There are sim­ply too many peo­ple want­ing to con­sume too many things. Sex edu­ca­tion and pro­mo­tion of effec­tive birth con­trol mea­sures are needed to stop this trend.

We also need to learn to live in har­mony with nature. That’s why I live in the jun­gle and tend my land with love. Ani­mal and plant pop­u­la­tions tend to over pop­u­late too. Here we have many inva­sive species that need to be kept under con­trol or they will destroy the native envi­ron­ment. Humans are like an inva­sive species and need to learn to con­trol our­selves and live in har­mony with nature, or nature will find a way to con­trol our spread and destruc­tion of nat­ural environment.

Life is cer­tainly a strug­gle when we are out of bal­ance, out of har­mony with God-dess, our­selves, oth­ers, and nature. Uni­ver­sal­ist Radha-Krishnaism seeks to restore bal­ance, har­mony, and whole­ness to our lives. In the spir­i­tual Braj, we expe­ri­ence idyl­lic life in har­mony with nature and all beings. I don’t know if we will expe­ri­ence it in this life due to so many con­flict­ing forces vying for power and exploita­tion of resources. 

How­ever, we can find that place within, and each per­son can make a small or large dif­fer­ence in the world by work­ing to make it a bet­ter place. Judg­ing from the changes I see Obama mak­ing, I think this is a good time for those who want to cre­ate pos­i­tive change to unite with oth­ers of like mind and act.


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