Help or Hindrance? Part 2

Much like the animals on the planet and the human interaction that threatens to remove them in almost selfish manners, people question whether or not they should really be abusing the planet as much as they do. Well, who decides this level of abuse and the actions that cause it? Who tells another what they can and cannot do, so long as they try to maintain the balance?

Of course, humanity still has much to learn about balance. Sure it is easy to claim that cutting the rainforest down will benefit people by producing more farming land, but how do they compensate for the oxygen quantities that they will be depleting by such an effort? Starve or suffocate, which is more appealing? True, it would take far too long for world wide levels to be overwhelming depleted, but the carbon dioxide that remains in the atmosphere will only help to accelerate the rate at which the planet warms. Isn't that the problem everyone concerns themselves about, and for what reason?

As masters of their environment, humans already have the knowledge they need to transform this world into the place they want it to be, they just don't want to even try for it. It's better to complain. It's better for the planet to provide a solution and to just sit back and suffer if the weather isn't doing what they want it to. Humanity loves its destruction and disasters. They crave it constantly, and if they can't have it, they create it through wars and other degrees of foolishness.

It's quite sickening to watch.

Who decides, and who gets the choice? Isn't it everyone? Aren't we all inhabitants together?

The balance is something that can be maintained. The future is not out of our control if we simply take the effort to make things reality. But would we? And are our actions really a help... or just another hindrance?

That's the question. So what do you follow?

Help or Hindrance? Part 1

People always wonder what their role is on the planet, and whether their efforts are more harmful than helpful... but what does that matter? It's true that people can't just eliminate important environmental factors at will, but this is because they can't provide the proper balance and the system fails. Is it wrong to do randomly kill animals and drive certain species to extinction? Well, sure it is sad, but who has the right to decide?

Whether it is driving a certain predatory species into extinction for the gain of nothing more than the satisfaction of the kill, acquiring a few trinkets of little value from a certain animal, or taking a part of the living animal and leaving the rest to die a horrible death, that is human choice, but it is too wasteful to respect. If people want to topple the scales of nature, then that is their choice as one of the inhabitants of this planet, but they better provide the counter balance to make things right.

Let's stop for a moment and look at the ancient world.

In the ancient society people fought to live and largely eliminated the threats to their existence by eliminating large predators around them. However, they became the top predator and kept the former prey in check. It was the simple at of removing the competitor for personal gain. When this system that was provided by nature no longer worked, they domesticated the prey animal and made their farmer and the prey became livestock that kept them alive. It is a system in place to this day.

This approach wasn't a bad one. It was wrong for one predator to replace another. That and the prey animal has survived to this day. It was a good thing for both parties, despite that they became our food. This was right because humanity replaced the weight and maintained the balance.

Fast forward to today.

There are many predators out there in the world and because of a gentle heart they are coming back in increasing numbers. However, these creatures do not have the prey counts they used to, so they are starting to glance our way. Is this really what we want? If it were the ancients and our ancestors, they would have a solution: Kill and replace. It isn't a wrong approach, but can people stomach the decision?

Imagine a world where all major predators and their spots at the top of the food chain are taken over by us. A sparse few are left alive in captivity for our enjoyment or confined to special wildlife parks where they can continue to live without our interference. People would feel safe to go into woods, into the ocean, and into vast plains knowing the only threat would be something that would otherwise be our dinner.

Flash forward into the future some more...

The prey animals that were disruptive to other animals and fish that we eat are at insane numbers because we couldn't count on their predators keeping them in check and we didn't do our jobs of maintaining the balance. In this respect we are wrong, but to correct it we could be right. So what do we want to do?

Isn't that up to us to decide?

Wise about the Water

According to this cnn article on oceanic current turbines, people are wising up about the perpetual forces and how to use them. Much like a river, the Gulf Stream flows on a continuous basis and never powers down, which is a great constant power source for those wishing to utilize the energy. A great Blue&Yellow (water and chaos (electrical energy) combination) solution to growing energy needs, it would far outweigh the White&Yellow generation that wind turbines provide. This means constant power around the clock... if the can figure out how to harness it correctly.

Now if only people would learn that 'waste' heat, water, air flow, etc... isn't really waste if they used it correctly. But it might be too early for this society to adapt to the interconnected world workings that work so well. For now at least, this is one step closer to the right direction.

For those concerned about environmental effects and other concerns, everything changes. It's just a matter of when and how.

The Colors of the World

Just as a thermal imaging of the planet will reveal the various areas with many different colors that indicate the presence or absence of heat, an elemental overview in terms of usage would reveal the same. Going one step back, if the world simply showed the elements of the world, it would reveal a fairly balanced system with all the main colors of red, brown, blue, and white, with equal greater quantities of green (the transitional earth element), black (animal life, including people), and wide distributions of yellow throughout the white and some below the brown. However, when a usage map would fall in place, there would be almost no brown, green and black; some white and blue; mostly red and an additional amount of yellow.

Of course, red would dominate most of the planet, yellow would be focused where people use electricity, and the others would be in various areas. As mentioned before, this is bad, and needs to change. Just how it could change is a topic for another time.

Color Code

Although the symbol of the 5 Follow blog is still under artistic construction, the concept involves pre-established colors for the five, although they can vary based on what is being described. This color coding will be useful for later discussions of uses and application at a much later time. The following is a basic code designate:

Chaos: Black when general, Yellow when dealing with energy.

Earth: Brown when general, Green when dealing with transitional earth elements like plants*.

Water: Blue

Air: White though it should be transparent, that doesn't translate as a color well.

Fire: Red

*Though plants are life, they contain very little chaotic energy and behave more like living crystal, which is an earth element.

Part of the Chaos

For as long as it's been a word, chaos has always been portrayed as the bad guy. Of course, that's simply because people got used to repetitive chaos, also known as "order". It's difficult to favor anything that is alien from what you know and love, and the principle of chaos is just that.

But for the co-creator of everything and that which moves us, that is a devastating blow. Unfortunately for everyone who loves to go against it, chaos is the life element, thus anything living can be said to exist in chaos. Hence the free will aspect of men and the other organisms on the planet.

Aside from life, our society takes the various energies that forms between the other elements and uses it to further our own needs without recognizing it for anything but our own success story. However, the truth is that this world functions on the energies of chaos, and we ourselves are just a part of that energy system. The sooner we come to accept it and ourselves for what things truly are, the better off everyone will be.

The Earth on which we Live

Earth, the element that shares the name of the planet that contains the other element. Originally derived from the word that meant "ground", Erda. So in a more accurate view point the earth element is the Terra element, or effectively everything that doesn't belong to the water, fire, air, or chaos class. It would be complicated to refer to the dirt on Mars as 'earth', but that's how it is at present.

The earth beneath us is vitally important and always has been as it contains the inner heat/fire of the planet, supports the water, holds the air through gravity, and allows for the workings of chaos across its entirety. The soil also is one of the supports of terrestrial life, as it gives us a home on which to live on. A rock floating in space is also a form of earth element, but it is certainly nothing that would support us, as it is only the single class element.

In the ancient times and today the earth holds everything we need to live and thrive, and it is only up to us to best use it through our understanding. Since it is the best balance we have, shouldn't everything start from this ground and work its way up? There's still a lot we have to learn.

The Way of the Wind

Because of the warming and cooling of the planet, wind is always a constant factor of this world and one that should be invested in more heavily. In the past, this use was necessary for travel with ships and for drying clothes and such things, but what is it today? Wind isn't utilized much more than laundry and some electricity on the side.

Surprisingly enough, this valuable aspect of the world is more an enemy than a commodity. After all, everyone tries to overcome wind resistance and the bad effects of the wind when there are more lasting solutions. Buildings can be built in ways to use wind and overcome some costs formerly associated with electricity, wind mills and turbines can be used for the right situations (not all things are run purely off electric energies, there's still mechanical), destructive tornadoes and hurricanes really don't need to happen when they can be defeated early on, and so on. Considering that as a world-over resource, wind is barely tapped in its entirety. Something for the generations of now and the future to consider a little more.