How incredible the synthetic reality here has been, keeping people so busy and blinkered.

The list of "ands" is so big. Climate change indicators, acidifying oceans, stronger winds, heavier rains, extreme weather events, melting ice caps..... Human impact: population explosion, deforestation, habitat loss, massive scale rubbish, nuclear contamination still spewing from Fukushima, drilling desperately deeper oil wells, thousands of fracking wells, degraded topsoils, genetically engineered foodstuffs.... The lists just go on and on. It seems like in my lifetime humans have rampaged roughshod over mother earth in ever deeper disconnection, and yet most people are still not reading the writing on the wall. It feels like a mounting frenzy of noise before a shocking quietness.

As for economics, how can highly educated people discuss things like "quantitative easing" - why don't they get real and say "printing money"?

So we can choose to see whats really happening, and re-prioritise our lives, feel the connection to the one-life, take time for the things that matter, drop the things that don't. Live more simply, honour our every blessing, make changes and choices in the best interest of all life on earth, build our local support network, do what we can to provide for ourselves in times of great change that will surely come.

So I'm learning to grow food. Its in the fresh air, connects me with nature, is a constant source of new insights, fills me with the wonder of life, and gives me fresh, organically grown veggies that only travel a few metres to my plate. Its a start, and its what I can do in this moment.

What can you do?