I wasn’t sure if I would like this book but since it was about our water situation in the world, I wanted to give it aA Great Adventure with a Message
I wasn’t sure if I would like this book but since it was about our water situation in the world, I wanted to give it a try.
Well, it was quite an adventure as well as a warning. And it takes place in America. After reading it, I could very easily believe that what was written, all of it, could happen here.
It began with a couple running through a desert trying to get away from a helicopter that was chasing them, trying to kill them. The man saw some mountains, sot they ran for them. Squeezing through a crack in the boulders, they thought that they were safe. Then they realized that there was no ground under their feet. At which point, they both fell, ending up in a large pool water with no way out. The scene changed to our government, and the lies that were being told to keep the people from realizing that the water was running out faster than expected. I grew bored with this part of the book, but it didn’t last.
Soon, there was another scene taking place: An Indian is heading for a powwow to warn his people as to what was going on with the water situation. The action returned, and I was once again enjoying this book, in spite of its being a warning.
I had even looked up on the internet to check out the truthfulness of his story, that is, how long it would take for the water to run out. Arizona and New Mexico and Southern California are running out fast. Maybe they have two years. The Ogallala reservoir has maybe 50 years, but if the water runs out in the Southwestern States, people will be moving to where they can have more water, and then the water will run out faster. If we think that Canada is going to give us their water, think again. Texas has been fighting for Oklahoma’s water for years, and so far, they have not won. People need to wake up, conserve their water and quit having so many children. Still, it might be too late. It reminds me of the song, “Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you die.” I know, I can get so pessimistic about climate change, so I will end my review here. ...more
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“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money.”
~~Cree Indian prophecy
“God will bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”
~~ Revelation 11:18
In 1957, my 8th grade teacher gave us a lesson on pollution and its effects on our planet. I don’t recall much of what he had said other than he had brought the book, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson to class and discussed it that day. I only recall that the book said that there would come a day when spring would arrive, and there would be no more song birds. While I haven’t read her book, I never forgot its title or who wrote it.
It amazes me that we were talking about this issue over sixty years ago, yet we have done little to nothing about it. Did we think that the earth would just cleanse itself?
The next time I remember hearing about this subject was in 1964 when I was in a religious cult. The bible verse at the beginning of this review was often quoted by them. Still, I did not understand the full implications of pollution, what it was really doing to our planet. Those in my new religion were also polluting while blaming only the big corporations.
When I did a Google search to find this scripture’s source, I found their website, and then as I was reading their commentary on it, I was horrified, for they actually said that their members, because they were also polluting the earth, might not be saved at Armageddon even if they planted a tree. And it was suggested that they do just that, plant a tree. What a cruel thing to say to members who already fear Armageddon.
In the 1980s, I had been out of that religion for 10 years and was working at the North Berkeley library when I found a book that I now believe to have been written by Edgar Cayce. In it was a map of what the U.S. would look like in the future. The waters had rose so much that rhe U.S. didn’t look the same. California was gone, as well as Florida, and I believe that many of the western states were gone as well. I found it all fascinating, but then I didn’t check the book out, so I didn’t even know why the U.S. was to be covered in water or even if it told.
While I didn’t think much of it, I never forgot it either, just as I never forgot Rachel Carson’s book. Some things are just more unforgettable.
In later years I saw Cayce’s map again, for a friend had it in her possession. And since I had recently seen a climate change map of the U.S. in the September 2013 issue of the National Geographic magazine, I was shocked. They were similar but Cayce’s map had more land mass under water.
Cayce, as some may not know, was called The Sleeping Prophet because he would go into a hypnotic trance and gather information about our planet’s past and its future. He also gave past life readings as well as prescribing health remedies. He died in the 1950s.
Not being a Cayce fan, I decided to try to read his book, Earth Changes, but it is rather strange and unbelievable at times, well, most of the time. He even talked about California and Japan falling into the ocean.
I picked up the Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Sixth Extinction over a year ago, and it was then that I really feared for the earth and for all life on it. The author said that some scientists have given us 50 years, and then we would become extinct. This didn’t leave me with a good feeling. She didn’t go into detail as this book had, which made it much more frightening and I might add, depressing. This author talked, not just about the various ways in which we are polluting this earth, but he also lists the many ways in which we could die. Of course, I thought, did I think that it would all happen over night, that we would not suffer? I just didn’t wish to think about it.
While reading The Sixth Extinction, I recall a sentence that at least gave me hope for this earth, and I paraphrase, “In 100 million years what is now known as civilization will be reduced to a thin layer in the earth the size of a cigarette wrapper.”
It is hard to imagine that all of our dreams, our hopes, and our loves would be forgotten. It would be as though we had never existed....more
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