Yeah right mate!
Yes, you read that right. We have no idea what the oceans are about. It may be changing under the pressure we are putting on the life in it, but to be honest, we have no clue.
Why are we saying it is dying? Because humans are raping the resources? Because we see fewer species around? More species in the oceans have survived extinction cycles than those on dry land it seems. Mammals are young compared to fish, for example. I look at the power of the rising seas and I see a different story emerging. Climate change, and we again have so little evidence to show we brought it on or that we can control it, will cause oceans to expand and to limit the land we can use. Perhaps we'll kill ourselves when we keep on breeding like we do and when we keep on wasting like we do.
But when it is over, the waves will crash on a beach, all sorts of animals will continue to live like before, and perhaps a new species will colonise the planet. The waves will still be there, like they were there today and every day before.
As a Christian I know that we are not looking after the beasts of this planet and the planet itself as we were instructed to do. For that we will surely pay a price. I also know that saying this here in this blog will irritate the living daylights out of some of you. So be it. Let us just agree that as a species we are too smart for our own good. We are greedy and selfish, we have given up the simple norms that can help us be responsible and we have decided to become the masters of our own reality.
Let me ask the obvious question to end this piece: why would our reality be the ultimate truth? Or a final outcome? Why would the twisted logic we now try to steer by be the right star to follow? You answer that while I walk on the beach and celebrate the oceans. From there, by the Grace of God, we'll see a new beginning.
April 2013, Rarotonga, Pacific Ocean.
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