Thursday 18 November 2010

Why we own the planet?

When the planet was created and the first living creatures started to benefit from nature the land and the waters were not own by anyone. When the first people started to live in it, none of them had a concept of owning the land or the waters. The planet was there to support life in any form, with no discrimination between creatures.
Our planet is actually our house, a special one, as it provides shelter, water and food.
We are here only for a very short time  and we are going to leave this place for others after us. There is no need for owning a piece of the planet as it is not our own. After 100 years all the people living now in the planet will be gone. Others will be living and we have to leave this resourceful hearth to who is coming after us.
The concept I am trying to extrapolate from my mind is not applicable now days as the planet has already been divided into continents, countries, regions, private land and so on.
But the principle stands behind the thinking of the planet as the place for every living creature. It can not be different from this, as  laws or legislation regarding the partition of the land and the waters were not written at the moment of its creation. Who started this business? The Homo Sapiens! I always question the concept of humans being as the most intelligent creatures in the planet.
Is not the life of the planet a intelligent, clever development of a form being as a all?
Someone called Gaia or Mother as it gives birth to every thing including our self. So, are humans only a part of this intelligence, cleverness?
Or, we think we are. We only our self can think about our self as intelligent people. None one else. In fact, as we are so clever, we are destroying the only place that can actually keep us alive. Can we call it progress something that actually has a strong relation with pollution, destruction,  explotation, waste of resources and death?
New philosophical thinking is now need it for our  “modern “ society. So, volunteers please.

As for my day by day business, last night I have made more pasta for today lunch, more potatoe cakes with bacon from last year ( still very good. it was salted too much and this has helped to preserved it for longer.I just cut it in strips and boil it for 20 minutes or so and the salt is washed away), cooked another sheep neck and toast the last pumpkin seeds. Christopher loves  the potatoe cakes and if I leave him he will eat all of them at once. Toasted almond from our trees in Sardinia and the pumpkins seed are my snacks in the evening whilst drinking a glass of own brew beer. I must say, the cobination is really good. Snacks during the day are garden apples and pears. Last night we tried a glass of plum wine from last year. it was fizzy, rose' type of color, and a bit sharp. A medium brut type of champagne, but it need it more sugar added during second fermentation. not perfect, but I new that not all the wines would not. On the other hand, rhubarb, apple and nettle wines are very good. Cherry and worcesterberry ones are still to be tried.

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