Towards Climate Balance
Climate change is slowly becoming – in the minds of people and their leaders alike – the definitive global challenge; one that humanity has to urgently and unitedly address and – to some extent – redeem, before we can fully resolve our other socioeconomic and political issues.
The connection between climate balance and survival and the realization that Life always precedes and makes possible any and all Activity, properly highlight how fundamental this issue is. Truly universal in its implications, it concerns the planet and everything and everyone on it, with humanity featuring as the main culprit and redeemer alike.
This Newsletter seeks to inspire further research, draw attention to noteworthy efforts already underway, prompt creative thought around the theme, and hopefully, lead to right action in a spirit of Goodwill. §
Climate Change, Traditional Knowledge and the Transition into the Aquarian Age
It is surely significant that climate change is one of, if not the primary existential issue driving national and international conversations and shaping and determining the collective sense of the future.
From an esoteric perspective the current crisis of global warming and extreme weather events reflects a crisis in the climate of thought.
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In February 2021 the UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, designated the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn as the first UN Climate Change Goodwill Ambassador.
UN Climate Change is the largest of more than 20 United Nations organizations in Bonn. This designation emphasizes the need to motivate people to positive action to restore climate balance.
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There are several causes for the Global warming and climate change that we see happening in the world around us now. There are the obvious external reasons such as as greenhouse gas emissions, but there are more interior causes, which also need to be acknowledged.
One of these can be seen by drawing an interesting analogy from the ecology of the human throat.
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One of the notions associated with the ideal of balance in living organisms is that of homeostasis. It suggests that there is a fixed optimum internal state in living systems, which permits their optimal functioning, and that the organism should seek to return to this state when it is somehow removed from it.
Homeostasis is a 19th century concept although the term was coined mid-20th century. It is still widely used but its meaning has been shifting to what is more accurately described as allostasis or adaptive homeostasis, recognising that change is natural to living organisms.
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The 2022 #2 issue of the World Goodwill Newsletter focuses on the climate, approaching it from the point of view of balance. This page provides access to a wide range of resources related to the issue of climate, including videos, written texts, and documents that can be downloaded.
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