Environmental Emergency: Pollution and Water Oneness Consciousness
Where products are manufactured and pollution is produced vs where the products are consumed, and how water is One, and we all could be negatively affected by toxins
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There is a massive crisis happening right now on planet earth.
(FYI for those of you who are particular about how articles are written, I sometimes repeat myself and quote articles I wrote; however, this may be good for you to engrain this climate emergency into your neural pathways.)
Problems:
Pollution geographic imbalance between factory production and worldwide consumption
India and Pakistan Case Study
Pollution and Water Cycle Problem
Consumerism Problem
Solutions
UN and the WHO
One World Social Ecological Economy
Flower gardens, planting trees, organic sustainable farming, green technology, etc.Green Technology
Hemp Production to replace plastic products, as hemp is biodegradable and 10X stronger than steel
China helping India and all of Asia with green tech like they are doing in Latin America
Investment help for those individuals inspired to cultivate plants or create green tech (could come from The Giving Pledge)
Less consumerism and more consciousness about what you buy
What are your ideas?
Problem of Imbalance between Production and Consumption Geographies:
There is an imbalance between where products are made and the pollution effects (Asia) vs where products are purchased and the non-consciousness of their impact on pollution in other countries (America mainly, and the whole world).
Problematic Situation of the Water Cycle and How We are All One:
Additionally, we should all start to feel the effects of pollution. When you put fertilizers or pesticides in the land, that gets into the water cycle. When you put petroleum or coal into the air, that gets into the water cycle. When you put steroids, antibiotics, and other toxic chemicals into animals, their pee and manure gets into the water cycle. When you put trash into the ocean (yes, this does happen) that gets into the water cycle.
Water is One. We are on One Earth. So therefore, the water is being contaminated globally. We are digesting toxins in our food, even if they are organic. The water contains all of these pollutants.
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We already know that this is having an effect. The ozone layer is being depleted. So the sun is hotter. The glaciers are melting.
Indigenous islands are now underwater. Amsterdam in Europe is trying many tactics to save their land from not going underwater, and Miami in America and many other places have this same situation of their coast lines being at risk.
Additionally, America’s life expectancy is declining. There are many people with diseases. Could it be from eating toxic chemically-implanted animals? Could it be from eating chemically-fertilized and pesticized and Genetically-Modified food? Could it be from toxic air quality?
Pollution geographic imbalance between factory production and worldwide consumption
Products are typically made in Asia. However, consumption is mainly in America and the rest of the world. Therefore, pollution is rampant in Asia, but not in America.
Does that seem fair, healthy, or good to you?
It makes me sad. Here is an illustration for you. Envision America on the left, consuming without regard, and then Asia on the right, producing, and having tons of toxic pollution. Does that seem fair?
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India and Pakistan Case Study
I wrote about this problem in my Circular Eco Economy Series that you can find on my Medium Profile. Here are the devastating impacts on Pakistan from India’s industrial petroleum factories:
“Lahore, the capital of Punjab and Pakistan’s second-largest city, on Sunday had its worst air quality ever recorded, prompting the government to shut all primary schools this week. In the days since, the city has been cloaked in toxic, eye-irritating smog. On Thursday, Lahore had the worst air quality of any city in the world, according to IQAir, a Swiss air quality monitoring company.
“The air feels thick, and it’s exhausting just to breathe,” Safdar Masih, 42, a gardener in Lahore, said on Thursday. Even with windows and doors shut, the smog had seeped into homes, he said.
The World Bank has said that air pollution shortens the average life expectancy of Pakistanis by 4.3 years and leads to losses equivalent to about 6.5 percent of the economy.” — The New York Times
Typically, one would blame Pakistan and say they’re dumb. But, I’m an educated person, and thought this seemed atypical. It was confusing to me. So I did some research:
Aurangzeb said the fumes were “being carried by strong winds into Pakistan”.
“This cannot be solved without talks with India,” she said, adding that the provincial government would initiate such discussions through the foreign ministry.
Inhaling toxic air can have catastrophic health consequences, including strokes, heart disease, lung cancer and some respiratory diseases, according to the WHO.
Last month pupils were banned from outdoor exercise until January and school hours were adjusted to prevent children from travelling when pollution levels are the highest.
“As a mother, I am full of anxiety,” 42-year-old Lilly Mirza told AFP news agency.
“Last year was not this bad… Somebody needs to tell us what has happened. Did a pollution bomb explode somewhere?”
Typically, one would then blame India and say they’re dumb for polluting Pakistan. But, I’m an educated person, and know that the factories in Asia are the ones producing all the goods for the world, especially American consumerism.
So, the Circular Eco Economy could go something like this:
From America (consumerism, I want more products)
to India (I will build it for you because we are poor, so lots of pollution due to industrialism)
to Pakistan (The wind carries the pollution to Pakistan, making the children incapable of even going to school)
So my question is: if this is coming from India: then, it is probably coming from consumerism, addiction, and greed in the United States, we the people who buy the products from Asia made in filthy petroleum factories that are then shipped to us in the US and we receive the products like nothing happened to the earth, air, water, or the people in Asia.
Kind of bizarre? Inappropriate? Unfair?
Pakistan could have birth defects. Their entire plants, animals, and forests could die. Pakistan as a country could just entirely die. So this is real.
Here is the article if you would like to read it:
Water Cycle issue
We also have this massive issue of our water being polluted.
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Here is a short 13-minute YouTube video I made with a description of this chart:
Here is also a written description of the audio:
Okay, hello all. I am here to demonstrate an illustration of the effects of toxic pollutants on you and your family and our precious planet. So, our precious planet, we have tons of animals, plants, rainforests. It’s a really special planet if you think about it. You know, the birds, the bees, the flowers, the trees, it’s really sacred. And we are here to take care of her, of these species, of this earth. But right now we’re doing the opposite, right?
So if you can see in this diagram, currently we’re not caring about the actions and decisions we make. And what we do to animals, planets, water, our home, this is our home. And this is also about our karma, your karma, your salvation. Because what you do matters, it’s all calculated in the universe. It’s calculated by God, you can read the Bible, you can learn about Hinduism. All of this is calculated, it’s like a karmic score that you get. Read more about this here:
So if you harm animals, if you harm people, if you harm the water, it goes against your karma score. And you can end up in really negative places.
And so currently we have been governed by patriarchy, misogyny, egotism, greed, Satanism. That is why we have the world that we have right now. It’s filled with corruption and prostituted politicians. Democracy is not working. They’re selling themselves to the petroleum industry, to the McDonald’s cow industry, the factory farms, which are evil, cruel, awful, terrible.
The FDA isn’t caring, the EPA isn’t doing anything, the United Nations is not taking any actions.
Children in Pakistan right now cannot go to school, because the pollution from India, from the factories there that are making products for people in America, the pollution is spreading to Pakistan and so they can’t go to school, because the toxic pollution is so suffocating.
Pakistan could have birth defects. Their entire plants, animals, and forests could die. Pakistan as a country could just entirely die. So this is real.
And butterflies are dying too :(
80% of butterflies in the UK have declined since the 1970s, with habitat loss, climate change and pesticide use the main drivers of this decline.
You can read more about that issue here.
And the bees are dying too :(
“In the United States, in 2025, honeybee colonies will face record-breaking losses, with scientists warning that the impact could be felt in agricultural production. Washington State University entomologists said annual commercial honeybee colony losses “could reach 60 to 70%.” Over the past decade, “annual losses have typically ranged between 40 and 50%.”
And over 100 million years of evolution, bees learned how to be the perfect pollinators. Their relationship with plants enables them to adapt to what flowers to feed on, and by moving from flower to flower, allows plants to produce over long distances.
Further, today, ”three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and about 35% of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. That’s one out of every three bites of food you eat. More than 3,500 species of native bees help increase crop yields.”
In short, bees play a crucial role in our ecosystem, pollinating crops consumed by humans and providing feed for animals, and their declines pose a serious threat to food security and biodiversity. Bees are critical links between human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health. Known as “One Health,” four United Nations agencies widely accepted definition is that it is ”an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems.” — Impakter
I have many articles on Medium, on my website awakeningconsciousness.community about all of these problematic issues.
This is an environmental emergency.
You can learn about how The Guardian has said that the Amazon is now emitting more carbon than emitting oxygen. So we’re dying, the earth is dying, we are dying.
You can read more about that in my article here:
And so that’s why I wanted to create this illustration to show you what is happening. Illustrations can sometimes be helpful.
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So if you don’t care, if we don’t care, if we’re in this masculine patriarchy that does not really care about beauty, animals, plants and species, they just care about their own egos and getting elected, then we will have a problem, right?
So we need people who care, we need Wisdom Leaders, we need people who understand the Circle of Life.
The Circle of Life:
If you put pollutants like fertilizers and pesticides in food, then you’re going to eat that. You’re going to eat the chemicals. Does that make sense to anybody? You should be like, wow, eww, disgusting. That’s bad for one’s health!
We also have these factory farms. They’re putting steroids, antibiotics and hormonal influences in animals and then you eat that. And so that’s in your body. Do you think that’s healthy? No. I feel like puking right now. How about you?
So then we have the petroleum industry and it’s in the air and it’s in the water. You can also read in my articles and in this online news source about acidity in the ocean. People are putting trash in the ocean. It’s kind of ridiculous, it doesn’t make any sense.
“Oceans have thus far absorbed the brunt of global warming- trapping 93 per cent of excess heat in the biosphere. Ocean warming, along with overfishing, has already caused fish stock depletion by between 15 and 35 per cent over the past eight decades even as global populations grew from 2 to 8 billion. Unfortunately, record ocean temperatures are not the only issue of concern. Ocean acidification, sometimes called the “evil twin” of climate warming, is another result of rising greenhouse gas emissions. Ocean acidification refers to the drop in pH levels in seawater, which were on average 8.2 in the pre-industrial era. Since then, it has declined by 0.1 units. While this appears minute, because the pH scale is logarithmic, this actually represents a 30 per cent increase in acidity. Mid-range projections for 2100 is that ocean pH could decline by 0.3 to 0.4 units. This would be devastating for ocean biodiversity. As a comparison, a drop in blood pH in humans by 0.2–0.3 units could cause seizures, comas and even death. The main cause of acidification is higher oceanic levels of dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) — the main gas responsible for rising temperatures and climate change. Oceans currently absorb over 25 million tonnes of CO2 daily; cumulatively it has absorbed approximately 31 per cent of anthropogenic CO2 since industrial times. Other contributors to acidification, particularly at estuaries and ports, include agriculture runoff, sewage contamination, eutrophication, ship discharges, and plastic leaching. The latter is particularly acute in Southeast Asia, as the region contributes about a third of global marine plastic waste. Organic acids are released when sunlight hits aged plastic, leading to localised pH decreases of up to 0.5 units.” — Eco-Business
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You or I or We consume in America, in Europe, and you think everything’s fine when actually it’s not. You’re hurting the Asians who are producing these goods. Additionally, since the Water Cycle is One, we could end up dying too.
So we really need a global effort to help people understand basically the stupidity of what we’re doing.
The manure, the petroleum, all of these toxins they can get in the air and the water, they get in the animals, in the earth, in our food. And then they get in us, they get in our bodies, they get in our brains, and they get in our children, they get in generations to come. We could have massive birth defects. Does that make sense what we’re doing? No. It’s stupid.
We’re literally killing ourselves.
So this leads to less nutrition, diseases, allergies, cancer. Some of you may know there’s just allergies everywhere, right? Soccer Mom and Dads know: “My child has an allergy to this, my child has an allergy to that.” What do you bring to the soccer games for snacks? GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) are part of this allergy problem as well.
We also have pathogens everywhere. We had COVID because the markets in a lot of these developing countries, like where I’m living in Peru, and I’ve also lived in a village in West Africa, and it’s also in China. They just put these animals out in the air without any refrigeration. That’s a pathogenic disaster zone. The World Health Organization should be taking a Preventative Action Effort along with the UN and other countries who are able to. You can read my article about this issue here.
And so these developing country markets without animal refrigeration are how we get STDs, we get COVID, how we get all of these germs that travel through the air, through planes, through money, through everything. Do you really think we could not get another disease eventually? Actually it’s a probability if we do not take Preventative Action.
Here is my YouTube video: Experience a Pathogenic Market First-Hand
And so we could end up with really terrible diseases. We could end up with abnormalities in birds, really sick children because of pollution. I would caution about having children in Asia right now.
We’re ruining the ozone layer, and so glaciers are melting, so cities are going underwater, Miami has this issue, Amsterdam is trying to create solutions. I’m thinking of Venice canals everywhere to try to help this issue.
I mentioned another effect of this is children not being able to go to school because of pollution. And a huge problem is, so the consumption rates in America and Europe are extremely high because they’re extremely wealthy. However, all of the products are being made in Asia, so Asia is experiencing tons of pollution, tons of awful side effects. While Americans and Europeans might not be aware because the industries are in Asia where all these pollutants are.
You or I or We consume in America, in Europe, and you think everything’s fine when actually it’s not. You’re hurting the Asians who are producing these goods. Additionally, since the Water Cycle is One, we could end up dying too.
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And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
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We are being really cruel, really unkind to life. Hopefully this helps you understand a little bit more. If you already understand it, that’s great.Please try to help. If you’re just learning, that’s okay. Please try to spread the word in whatever way you can. Take a leadership position. Do any tiny or large effort to help. Alright, that’s all for now. Good day to you.
Many blessings and prayers sent your way and to all of the animals, ancestors, and beings of this Earth and Universe.
Consumerism Problem
The Astonishing Rate of Consumerism in America
And its effects on the world, life, animals, plants, the oxygen we breathe
I made a YouTube video of my discoveries. My written transcript of it is below, and you can also view the YouTube Video, Alarming Consumerism in America:
Transcript of the YouTube Video:
Hello there! So I wanted to research consumerism because as I don’t know if you’ve been reading my articles, listening, or watching my YouTube videos, but I’ve been talking about consumerism and how it’s really divided in terms of the factories in Asia creating tons of pollution, children in Pakistan not being able to go to school, and then people in America just consuming, consuming, consuming, and in Europe and not understanding the effects of the pollution in Asia of their consumer habits.
So,I looked it up. Wikipedia has a list, below is a list of the consumer markets of the world, and you can view the entire list here.
Okay, so the United States is “first” (as if that’s a good thing ;))), millions of USD, so 18 million, so HFCE, that’s household final consumption expenditure. So 18 million, according to this data on Wikipedia. The population is 340 million.
Then it dramatically drops in Europe. The European Union, grouped together, equals 9 million in consumption. However, their population is 450 million.
Look at this chart from Wikipedia below:
Okay, so then I was curious about the population of Japan and Germany. Because, for instance, I thought Japan was like a tiny little island, but actually they have more people than Germany, so I get that So Japan is 125 million in population, and Germany is 83 million in population. They both have consumption rates of around 2 million.
Then we go to China, okay, you’re massive, like you have tons of people, right, yeah, so that makes sense. Then we have India, somewhere down there, somewhere in here, really poor country, right, so they’re two, but they have a massive population compared to the US, 1.4 billion in population. That’s a massive population, but their consumption is 2 million. Aha, okay, and Pakistan is actually only in the hundreds.
So the United States, do you know what the population of the United States is? It’s 340 million, it’s not that many people, so 340 million people are consuming 18 million.
However, we’re talking about the world here, we’re talking about petroleum factories, we’re talking about minerals, animals, plants, oxygen, so this is really, this really proves Satanism, right, destruction of the earth, of life. So many people in the United States are Luciferian, you can look this up on the Kabbalah in the Bible. This is greed, plain and simple, 18 million, wow, yikes.
Then I was curious, okay, European Union, it drops down to 9 million, right, so what is the population of the European Union? Is it similar to the United States or different? It’s 449.2, okay, so that’s more than the United States, so they’re actually doing better in their consumption habits, they’re actually not as greedy, not as Luciferian.
So I asked, so Google AI is really interesting, right, it’s objective, and so it’s kind of fun to ask questions sometimes, so I asked, why is the United States consumption so high compared to the rest of the world?
The United States, this is funny, right, okay, so just be careful, has high consumption compared to the rest of the world due to a combination of factors, including a strong economy, high incomes, and a culture that values consumption, but isn’t that funny, in a world with climate change and pollution and children in Pakistan not being able to go to school, isn’t that not something to value, that’s actually, in the Bible, it would be something that’s lustful and greedy and immoral, so it’s so funny that Google AI just put that down there, like, as a blanket objective statement to what’s going wrong in the world — that we “value” consumption lol.
And then we get to economic factors, you know, it’s bizarre that we value rising GDP, when, okay, what about the ecology, what about the earth, what about plants and animals and the ocean, is it good for the GDP to rise or not? Should we be consuming all the time, or should we be reading the Holy Bible and actually, like, declining our consumption rates and focusing on people in poverty, people who are homeless? We could do a lot better at being more Christian, more Godly, we are a government under God, the Bible, the President puts his hand on the Bible, so it is a Christian country. However, it’s not acting like one; according to these statistics, it’s Luciferic, Satanic.
That’s why we have Trump, that’s why we have insanity right now, it’s a symptom, it’s a signal, it’s just a variable, right. So then it’s so funny, these cultural factors that Google AI puts out (with neutrality),
Consumerism: American culture is deeply ingrained with the desire to consume and acquire more, so this is, again, it’s against Christianity, that’s lustful, it’s also, if you’re into Buddhism, you’re supposed to be able to get rid of your desires, that’s more spiritually awakened, to be able to be in control of your desires, to be centered and balanced and simple, and yeah, this is just so funny, because it’s coming from Google AI.
So in the marketing and advertising industry, “powerful marketing campaigns and advertising influence consumer behavior and rapid demand” (Google AI), so a lot of this is actually called manipulation, manipulation of people, you know, year after year, it’s like the clothing trends change, so you have to buy new clothes, new technologies come out, you have to buy the new technology, like tennis shoe companies come out with new shoes, you have to buy new shoes, like it’s just so funny, when you could go to a second-hand store and just buy really cool clothes that fit you, that you like, and just be simple or diverse. Second-hand stores are actually really cool, they have a lot of diversity versus wanting to fit in to what everybody else is wearing. That leads to consumerism, and to me it’s similar to communism.
The opposite would be, I’m unique, I go to second-hand stores and buy really unique, interesting, fascinating, fun, crazy clothes because I’m comfortable with who I am and I know who I am.
So the marketing campaigns are targeting those who are a little insecure, probably, and are like, oh, I should wear that, so I can be cool, so I can fit in, so I can be loved, but actually the love from yourself comes from yourself, not from others. The others are also insecure, they’re also like, wow, looking at what everybody else is wearing, and you’re just looking at mirrors of insecurity. Spirituality is about loving yourself, finding God, it’s a totally different consciousness, right?
It’s a totally different spiritual reality of following your heart and loving yourself rather than, oh, does he love me because I’m wearing these clothes that everybody else is wearing too?
That’s kind of like communism, it’s like everybody doing the exact same thing to try to fit in because they’re so insecure and so not in love with themselves.
When you have a spiritual awakening, you typically start to realize, wow, that’s kind of sad, right? And it’s also hurting the earth, and so this is a change in your consciousness.
More from Google AI: And then it mentions social influence, “social media and other forms of media contribute to a culture of consumption and comparison” (Google AI), so that’s exactly what I was just talking about, right? Comparison. Are my clothes better than your clothes? How funny is that, right?
What about, wow, Who are you? Who are you as a person? Can you tell me your story? Are you okay? Different variables than, “what are you wearing”?
So I hope this is helpful to everybody in understanding spirituality as well and how the United States is really hurting the earth. It’s interesting, you know, countries that maybe are more Islamic, more conservative, I’m not sure if, like, Saudi Arabia’s in the hundreds, okay, what is their population? Population of Saudi Arabia? I have no idea. So, okay, so they’re really tiny, okay, but at least, yeah, they’re only in the hundreds. Egypt is really poor. It’s, uh-huh, Israel, I’m not entirely sure what, let’s see if anybody else sticks out.
So then we go to, we’re going down then to the African countries, so then now we’re in 78 thousand, right, because the poorer. Okay, alright, Jordan, so I used to live in Jordan, 35, uh-huh. So as we keep going lower and lower, uh-huh, okay, so I used to live in Mali as well, uh-huh, 12, okay, so they’re very poor, very, very poor, uh-huh. Haiti, uh-huh, the Congo is there, Gambia, uh-huh, Kerala, uh-huh, Marshall Islands.
Okay, so, um, all right, so as you can see, so this goes from poverty to, to richness, um, but there’s a huge jump, huge differential, right, that we saw here between the United States and the European Union, that’s very interesting, um, uh, again, United States, population 340, the population of the EU is even more, but they have less consumption.
So what is going on, is my question, what is going on in the United States that is driving this, and then I go toGoogle AI’s answer (neutrality), that we’re not following Christianity, we’re not following Buddhism, we’re not following any religious values. We’re following a bizarre culture of trying to fit in, it’s like communism, and so that’s kind of funny, right, we’re like trying to not be communist, but we are, um, so,
I would say, Be Yourself, “bee” natural, be beautiful, Be You. You don’t have to consume so much. If the person “likes” you because of superficial qualities that is not Real Love. Real Love comes from the Heart, and you can feel it. Love yourself. Find somebody who loves you. Then there will be Harmony.
We can also reduce consumerism by becoming more artistic and buying locally. You can do handicrafts, you can build, like, for instance, I had, uh, I’m living in Peru, and for the children, I had one of my friends build this for us, so the children could draw little designs and things (you’d have to see the YouTube video or here is a picture below.
My children’s corner in Peru. My male friend who helps me with my garden constructed this wooden pallet that I had envisioned.
So what if people did more things like that, creativity. Made by your neighbor, made by yourself. Made in your community rather than in Asia.
I also believe we need an entirely new school system. Children below the age of 7/8 should be in little houses, taught by women (less pressure than with a man, less insecurity, more ingenuity). Taught with fun, creativity, songs, art, laughter, love, kindness, sharing.
I remember being in a 30-person kindergarten class and we didn’t learn anything. Too many behavioral problems. So we put our heads down for a lot of the day.
Montessori is an excellent example of a different way of being for children that begins with Why Are We Here? It was begun by a woman seeking to help poor children in Europe.
Nuvu in Cambridge, Massachusetts is an excellent example of a different atmosphere for older children to build, explore, and have fun.
If anybody else has any insights, any thoughts about any of this, I’m super curious to chat. So there you go, sending love, bye for now.
My Question:
Do we need a new financial system based upon a unified ecological social economy?
Does anybody have ideas for how to make this possible?
If you have other theories and explanations, please feel free to email me at ashleyheacock@gmail.com
Here is the article I wrote on this subject that you can view here:
Solutions
UN and the WHO
One World Social Ecological Economy
Flower gardens, planting trees, organic sustainable farming, green technology, entrepreneurism, etc.
Hemp Production to replace plastic products, as hemp is biodegradable and 10X stronger than steel
China helping India and all of Asia with green tech like they are doing in Latin America
Investment help for those individuals inspired to cultivate plants or create green tech (could come from The Giving Pledge)
Less consumerism and more consciousness about what you buy
What are your ideas?
UN and The WHO (World Health Organization)
They could help with any of these projects.
Different countries could combine forces to make an impact on the environment. They could set standards.
Research what is possible: here is what the US has done, here is what Europe has done, here is what China has done, here is what Japan has done, here is what Kenya has done, here is what Ecuador has done, here is what New Zealand has done.
However, more needs to be done.
“Let me remind you, the bee populations, needed for our food source, are dying in rates that are so dramatic that makes it the most important item on the UN and WHO’s agenda.
In the United States, in 2025, honeybee colonies will face record-breaking losses, with scientists warning that the impact could be felt in agricultural production. Washington State University entomologists said annual commercial honeybee colony losses “could reach 60 to 70%.” Over the past decade, “annual losses have typically ranged between 40 and 50%.”
And over 100 million years of evolution, bees learned how to be the perfect pollinators. Their relationship with plants enables them to adapt to what flowers to feed on, and by moving from flower to flower, allows plants to produce over long distances.
Further, today, ”three-fourths of the world’s flowering plants and about 35% of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators to reproduce. That’s one out of every three bites of food you eat. More than 3,500 species of native bees help increase crop yields.”
In short, bees play a crucial role in our ecosystem, pollinating crops consumed by humans and providing feed for animals, and their declines pose a serious threat to food security and biodiversity. Bees are critical links between human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health. Known as “One Health,” four United Nations agencies widely accepted definition is that it is ”an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of humans, animals, plants, and ecosystems.” — Impakter
The UN and WHO could also take a preventative policy towards diseases spreading around the world. Nobody wants another COVID. Nobody wants an STD. Read more about my ideas for solutions here.
One World Social Ecological Economy
Water is One. Therefore, it makes sense to now have One World Social Ecological. Economy. Pollutants spread. My health is your health is Our Health.
There are also tax havens, and many different economic issues that could be solved with this idea.
Please email me at ashleyheacock@gmail.com if you would like to be part of this conversation.
Flower gardens, planting trees, organic sustainable farming, green technology, entrepreneurism, etc.
Everybody and anybody could start a movement to plant trees, cultivate organic sustainable farming, create flower gardens (especially for bees), create green technologies, clean the water, etc. Here are some inspirational people you can learn about:
Learn about Wangari Maathai and The Green Belt Movement in Kenya to become inspired to grow plants, flowers, trees, and diverse ecosystems.
Here is an example of an entrepreneur who is focused on a really cool biogas solution:
“A biogas plant is a facility that provides oxygen-free conditions where anaerobic digestion can occur. Simply put, it’s an artificial system where you can turn waste into sustainable energy and fertilizers, with positive effects on the environment.” —HomeBiogas
Here is an example of a creative entrepreneur focused on cleaning the ocean:
“As a social enterprise and trusted source of transparency in the ocean-bound plastics marketplace, OceanCycle works with leading brands to integrate more sustainability into their core products. We help their procurement departments and suppliers integrate our certified materials with cost-efficiency and minimal supply chain interruptions.
This allows companies to utilize a high percentage of ocean-bound material in their products, and the more they sell, the more they are helping to keep our oceans free of plastics. Because companies find success using our certified material, it creates demand for more material — and that further incentives collection in at-risk communities, which leads to more income and jobs. It’s a virtuous circle of profit and purpose!
Our values inform everything we do:
Leading with honesty and transparency
Collaborating with humility and empathy
Working with rigor and tenacity
Visualizing with clarity and insight” — Ocean Cycle
Here is an example of an artistic way to bring awareness to climate change by an entrepreneur friend of mine:
“In 2016, Cheung launched her nonprofit Before It’s Too Late, using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology she was exposed to at MIT to encourage individuals to feel closely and emotionally connected to climate change. Working at the grassroots level, Cheung’s work focuses on building public support necessary to drive political action. “The quickest way to radical change,” she says, “is to shift paradigms.”
Cheung’s current focus is creating a series of murals in Miami, Florida (http://miamimurals.org), which highlight the impacts of climate change in the city and surrounding area. AR is used to bring the murals to life. So far, two murals have been completed. The first focuses on the impact of sea level rise on the city. The second mural focuses on mass biodiversity extinction, featuring animals local to the area with which the people of Miami have an emotional connection. Before It’s Too Late has also organized a project called Remembering Miami (http://www.beforeitstoolate.earth/remembering-miami.html), which shares the stories of people across Miami from various walks of life and describes how climate change has altered their lives. Cheung hopes the project, posted on social media platforms, will resonate with individuals across the city, as many of the stories told will likely be familiar in large ways and small. What all Before It’s Too Late’s projects share is the goal of inspiring ordinary people in order to drive political action.” — MIT Climate Portal Spotlight
Before It’s Too Late — MIT Climate Portal Spotlight
Before It’s Too Late — MIT Climate Portal Spotlight
Latin Americans have also been entrepreneurial and producing green technologies on their own. Here is some inspiration:
“For example, the independent Chilean startup Reborn Electric Motors has developed a business converting old diesel bus fleets into fully electric buses. Reborn was founded in 2016 when the national electromobility market in Chile was in its early stages, before China’s BYD ramped up electric bus use in local cities…
Bolivia’s “tiny supercheap EV” developed by homegrown startup Industrias Quantum Motors is another example of frugal innovation in the electric vehicles space. The startup aspires to bring electric mobility widely to the Latin American population. It offers the tiniest EV car possible, one that can be plugged into a standard wall socket. The car costs around $6,000 and has a range of approximately 34 miles (55 kilometers) per charge…
Phineal is another promising Chilean company that offers clean energy solutions, focusing on solar energy projects. Its projects include solar systems installation, electromobility technology and technology using blockchain to improve renewable energy management in Latin America. Many of these are highly sophisticated and technologically advanced projects that have found markets overseas, including in Germany.” — Fortune
Why not do multi-sensorial, multidimensional, sacred geometric designs for clean energy?
Green technologies could be solar, wind, bioenergy, etc. I am not a scientist. However, here are my creative ideas here that may inspire you:
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Why not create an energy grid with:
solar
wind
nuclear fusion
rain pressure
home waste
etc…what are your ideas?
If you just have solar, and it’s rainy and cold, then bummer you.
If you have an equipment that is able to transition with the weather, then when it’s cold and rainy, the equipment relies on the wind, or some differential of rain pressure, and produces that energy.
It would be like creating a multi-sensorial energy creator!
There is one company that is doing something really incredible, HomeBiogas. “A home biogas system generates energy by using bacteria to break down organic waste (like food scraps or animal manure) in an oxygen-free environment, called anaerobic digestion, which produces a gas mixture primarily composed of methane, known as biogas, that can then be burned to create heat or used to power a generator to produce electricity; essentially turning waste into usable energy.” — Google AI
Also, why not create solar panels that are sacred geometric? The Law of Attraction. Make the solar panel into the Flower of Life, or the Sri Yantra, or the Merkaba, or the Tetragramaton? Make it multidimensional. Then you might get more nuclear fusion? What would the sun be attracted to?
These are just my basic thoughts. Can anybody explain why nobody has done this yet?
I feel like we need a lot more creativity in this space. A lot more experimentation.
Please email me if you’d like to chat more about these projects: ashleyheacock@gmail.com
Hemp Production to replace plastic products, as hemp is biodegradable and 10X stronger than steel
There is a fascinating history of hemp in the United States that is not known to most people.
Let’s start with some important information from The Meaning of Water:
“Why use up the forests, which were centuries in the making, and the mines, which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?” ~ Henry Ford
“In 1941, Henry Ford built a car out of plastic from hemp and other plant material that ran on hemp fuel. Why aren’t we driving it today? asks Return to Now.
Ford’s 1941 bioplastic Model T was made of hemp, flax, wheat, and spruce pulp, which made the car lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel, wrote the New York Times on February 2, 1941. The car ran on ethanol made from hemp or other agricultural waste. Ford’s experimental model was deemed a step toward the realization of his dream to “grow automobiles from soil,” wrote Popular Mechanics in their December 1941 issue and reduce greenhouse gases — already known to occur by then.”
In 1925, Ford told the New York Times: “The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust — almost anything. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”
Hemp is ideal for pyrolytic conversion into chemical feedstocks, transportation fuels, electricity, and heat for industrial uses, they reported.
“The same basic thermochemical decomposition process is used to refine both biomass and fossil fuels.”
The Hemp Farming Act passed on December 2018, legalized hemp production in the USA. With the act, Ford and Dietzen’s prototypes may yet help eradicate the fossil fuel-based auto industry and make transportation sustainable.” — The Meaning of Water
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So what went wrong? What slander/manipulation happened that made this incredible biodegradable plant product non-accessible in the USA?
I will quote from The Hemp Company:
“From the dawn of civilization to becoming the future of sustainable manufacturing, hemp has had a long, strange history. First cultivated as early as 2800 BCE in China, hemp has helped build a new country, sparked industries and birthed an agricultural and manufacturing revival.
The Early Days of Hemp
Native Americans cultivated hemp throughout North America, and early settlers in the 17th century arrived in Jamestown with new strains of hemp seeds. Records from 1607 tell of hemp being used for fabric by Native Americans in Plymouth and Cape Cod, and settlers used it for rope and paper as well.
In 1619, the Virginia Assembly voted to require every farmer to grow hemp, and hemp became legal tender in the commonwealth, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew it, and it became an important crop to compensate for shortages due to boycotts of British imports. It even helped colonists win the Revolutionary War: every ship in the 11 state-sponsored fleets and Continental Navy needed ropes and sails. Hemp boomed, and by the last days of the American Revolution, Virginia was producing 5,000 tons of the crop a year.
Fear and Loathing in the 20th Century
Hemp’s popularity as a fabric dwindled in the late 19th century, when it was largely replaced with light, fluffy cotton. While hemp farms in Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri continued to produce thousands of acres of the crop, domestic production slowed following the Civil War and imports replaced much of the demand for hemp.
The 20th century also saw big changes in how hemp was viewed by the public, politicians and industry. In 1916, the US Department of Agriculture determined that hemp could produce four times as much paper per acre as trees. This scared industry leaders who lobbied against the crop to protect their own business interests. This began the association of hemp with marijuana, setting the stage for the “reefer madness” of the mid-twentieth century.
In 1937, the US Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, criminalizing cannabis throughout the country. Because Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents could not differentiate between marijuana and hemp, the hemp industry essentially collapsed.
Hemp didn’t disappear from the US, though — it was imported mostly from the Philippines during prohibition, that is until Japan invaded the islands in 1942 and cut off supply lines. As during previous wars, hemp played a crucial role in producing military necessities, and to encourage American farmers to reintroduce the crop, the Department of Defense produced a “Hemp for Victory” program. By the next year, American farmers harvested more than 375,000 acres of hemp.
When the war effort was no longer needed, prohibition grew strength yet again. Over the following decades, the US government continued to tie hemp to marijuana and enacted stricter sentencing laws for cultivation and possession under several administrations. Although industrial hemp does not contain the psychoactive elements of marijuana, it became a prime target in the “war on drugs.”
A New Era for Hemp
Finally, in 2013, the US government began to distinguish between industrial hemp and it’s cousin, marijuana. President Obama signed the Farm Bill in 2014, legalizing hemp production in states with programs set to grow the crop.
The hemp revival was born in America, and hemp was finally removed from the controlled substance list in 2018, making it federally legal for the first time in five decades.
These changes have opened the door to innovations in everything from paper making and textiles to nutraceuticals and plastics. We are proud to play a role in the history of hemp by providing alternatives to pure fossil-fuel-based plastics. Our hemp-filled biocomposites and bioplastics represent the greener future of manufacturing and a pathway to reducing carbon emissions without significant additional capital or operating expenses. We’re changing the landscape of the plastics industry by designing and manufacturing custom hemp biocomposites to create everything from parts and packaging to durables, containers, toys and more.” — The Hemp Plastic Company
Additionally, more information on these ugly manipulation tactics against planet earth and biodegradable hemp products from Citizen Wolf:
“In fact hemp is a significant part of America’s history and agriculture with the very first American flag being made from hemp fibre. And during the Second World War, Uncle Sam even produced a propaganda film called ‘Hemp For Victory’ to encourage farmers to grow hemp.
With the rise of cotton and synthetic fabrics, combined with America’s harsh ‘War on Drugs’, hemp was outlawed in the 1970s along with it’s more gregarious cousin marijuana. Hemp plants were sensationalised by the media, politicians and corporations as being responsible for poor health and rebellion whereas in reality hemp itself has zero drug value.
With the twin worries of climate change and waste, hemp has (rightfully) started to come back around as the need for alternative eco-friendly materials is in growing demand. In America, campaigners have worked hard to finally legalise hemp and marijuana plants to be grown in 8 states, and in Australia there have been recent changes to allow the cultivation of hemp.
America and Australia are unfortunately quite far behind in the hemp textile industry, with China currently responsible for growing the majority of the global crop.”
China helping India and all of Asia (especially India) with green tech like they are doing in Latin America
China has been helping Latin America with renewable energy goals, and they could branch out to Asia, especially India, given the situation I wrote about above in Pakistan being overly polluted by India’s petroleum factories and other concerning issues.
While researching with Google AI, I discovered China “has become a major financier of renewable energy projects in Southeast Asia, contributing billions of dollars to projects in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.” — Google AI
Unfortunately, according to Google AI, there is not as strong as a relationship with India, which could really help Pakistan and the children not being able to go to school, which I wrote about above in the Problems section.
“New geothermal, solar and wind power projects — some built with Chinese backing, but not all — have pushed Chile far past its 2025 renewable energy goal. Using its abundant solar and wind power to produce green hydrogen for export as a fossil fuel replacement has become a government priority.” — Fortune
Investment help for those individuals inspired to cultivate plants or create green tech
A UBS Global Wealth Report found that in 2023, the world’s richest 1% owned around 47.5% all the wealth. Meanwhile, adults with less than $10,000 make up nearly 40% of the world’s population and only hold less than 1% of the wealth. Quite a drastic difference.
Could governments or The Giving Pledge help out more? Could we save the planet? Could we give inspired people money to save the earth? Wouldn’t that be incredible, like, we wouldn’t die, we would survive, and thrive!
Here is my idea, called The Compassion Network. You can view it on Medium, or on this Canva Presentation here.
Please email me at ashleyheacock@gmail.com if you would like to help with this project.
Less consumerism and more Consciousness about what you buy
You can read my article about the serious issue of consumerism, greed, lust, entitlement, and insecurity (everybody trying to fit in ~ is that similar to communism?), and extreme damage to the earth primarily by America here. (I also also quoted some of this above, so some of this may be a repeat, but it may be good for your heart and soul.)
You can make a change in your habits. You can be more conscious about the impact you make on the earth. You can buy local. You can buy organic, sustainable produce. You can purchase clothes at thrift stores that are unique rather than what everybody else is wearing. You can also give donations to The Salvation Army.
You can also read spiritual texts, feel into your heart, and know that you are Loved without those high heels and cocktails.
(Now I am quoting again from above about consumerism. You can read again, skim, or jump ahead to the next section. I wanted to include it again because it is about loving yourself as you are; the point of Salvation.)
Google AI is really interesting, right, it’s objective, and so it’s kind of fun to ask questions sometimes, so I asked, why is the United States consumption so high compared to the rest of the world?
The United States, this is funny, right, okay, so just be careful, has high consumption compared to the rest of the world due to a combination of factors, including a strong economy, high incomes, and a culture that values consumption, but isn’t that funny, in a world with climate change and pollution and children in Pakistan not being able to go to school, isn’t that not something to value, that’s actually, in the Bible, it would be something that’s lustful and greedy and immoral, so it’s so funny that Google AI just put that down there, like, as a blanket objective statement to what’s going wrong in the world — that we “value” consumption lol.
And then we get to economic factors, you know, it’s bizarre that we value rising GDP, when, okay, what about the ecology, what about the earth, what about plants and animals and the ocean, is it good for the GDP to rise or not? Should we be consuming all the time, or should we be reading the Holy Bible and actually, like, declining our consumption rates and focusing on people in poverty, people who are homeless? We could do a lot better at being more Christian, more Godly, we are a government under God, the Bible, the President puts his hand on the Bible, so it is a Christian country. However, it’s not acting like one; according to these statistics, it’s Luciferic, Satanic.
That’s why we have Trump, that’s why we have insanity right now, it’s a symptom, it’s a signal, it’s just a variable, right. So then it’s so funny, these cultural factors that Google AI puts out (with neutrality),
Consumerism: American culture is deeply ingrained with the desire to consume and acquire more, so this is, again, it’s against Christianity, that’s lustful, it’s also, if you’re into Buddhism, you’re supposed to be able to get rid of your desires, that’s more spiritually awakened, to be able to be in control of your desires, to be centered and balanced and simple, and yeah, this is just so funny, because it’s coming from Google AI.
So in the marketing and advertising industry, “powerful marketing campaigns and advertising influence consumer behavior and rapid demand” (Google AI), so a lot of this is actually called manipulation, manipulation of people, you know, year after year, it’s like the clothing trends change, so you have to buy new clothes, new technologies come out, you have to buy the new technology, like tennis shoe companies come out with new shoes, you have to buy new shoes, like it’s just so funny, when you could go to a second-hand store and just buy really cool clothes that fit you, that you like, and just be simple or diverse. Second-hand stores are actually really cool, they have a lot of diversity versus wanting to fit in to what everybody else is wearing. That leads to consumerism, and to me it’s similar to communism.
The opposite would be, I’m unique, I go to second-hand stores and buy really unique, interesting, fascinating, fun, crazy clothes because I’m comfortable with who I am and I know who I am.
So the marketing campaigns are targeting those who are a little insecure, probably, and are like, oh, I should wear that, so I can be cool, so I can fit in, so I can be loved, but actually the love from yourself comes from yourself, not from others. The others are also insecure, they’re also like, wow, looking at what everybody else is wearing, and you’re just looking at mirrors of insecurity. Spirituality is about loving yourself, finding God, it’s a totally different consciousness, right?
It’s a totally different spiritual reality of following your heart and loving yourself rather than, oh, does he love me because I’m wearing these clothes that everybody else is wearing too?
That’s kind of like communism, it’s like everybody doing the exact same thing to try to fit in because they’re so insecure and so not in love with themselves.
When you have a spiritual awakening, you typically start to realize, wow, that’s kind of sad, right? And it’s also hurting the earth, and so this is a change in your consciousness.
From Google AI: then it mentions social influence, “social media and other forms of media contribute to a culture of consumption and comparison” (Google AI), so that’s exactly what I was just talking about, right? Comparison. Are my clothes better than your clothes? How funny is that, right?
What about, wow, Who are you? Who are you as a person? Can you tell me your story? Are you okay? Different variables than, “what are you wearing”?
So I hope this is helpful to everybody in understanding spirituality as well and how the United States is really hurting the earth.
What are your ideas?
Please email me at ashleyheacock@gmail.com for collaboration on any of these topics. Thank you!
Written by
Ashley Heacock, Researcher, Writer, Mentor, Guide
MIT Sloan School of Management, MBA
Harvard Kennedy School of Government, MPA
The George Washington University, BA Economics, BA International Affairs
Contact: ashleyheacock@gmail.com
Website: awakeningconsciousness.community
