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A Balanced World - on the move

The recent earthquake in Japan and tsunami that followed were truly devastating. Another quake in Tonga today. The earth truly is on the move. Until a few weeks ago, 2011 in New Zealand was ticking over quite nicely. The economy stirring from the doldrums, the weather sunny and warm the whole summer through, and the kids had all gone back to school. People had returned to work after the annual 'month off' and everyone had started to get excited about the Rugby World Cup.

Then another earthquake struck Christchurch killing many people, injuring others and causing more devastation than this small country has never seen. I doubt that anyone living in New Zealand is completely unaffected. This, just after Christchurch had picked itself up, dusted off it's shoulders and started to rebuild.

My thoughts are with all those affected people and families. The City is shattered. Go well. Christchurch is an outstanding place and community and the City will flourish again.

Quakes are symptoms of imbalance. Imbalance within the Earth's crust. On the phone to my sister in the UK, she was quite distressed about us over here. She then went on to tell me a recent news story about some scientists who have uncovered a way to drill into the Earth to extract hot water which can be used as a power source. That got me thinking.

For GOODNESS sake, when are the human race going to stop messing with this beautiful World of ours? Everything seeks balance, and nothing demonstrates this more than mother nature and earthquakes. We humans are pretty good at molesting mother nature - extract everything and anything we can use, and replacing very very little. Isn't it about time we started to think about the impacts of taking?

Removing hot water from within the Earth has to create imbalance, if only to increase the temperature beneath us and create voids full of what one asks? If the water is the Earth's cooling system, then the Earth's radiator cap is going to have to blow at some point, isn't it?

Whilst we cannot control the tragic events in Christchurch, we can all have an impact on how we care for our planet, and the imbalances that we are creating.

Keep safe

Peter
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