aloha ‘āina.
aloha ‘āina.
It's rather basic.
Love and care for the land, for it is the land that cares for you.
It's supremely complex.
Caring for the land, and by extension it's living inhabitants from the most endangered species to ourselves, means ensuring that everything else remains in or regains its dynamic balance. So loving the land means caring for the air, water, fire, and ice, because it literally all works together. We have not the computing capacity to analyze or learn, let alone adequately model or manage or optimize everything involved with Earth's systems.
Our incremental inputs to this planet will reverberate harmonically for a very long time, and it is questionable whether such inputs can be counteracted in any beneficial way. In many ways, dynamic balances and harmonic cycles so far identified in the Earth are becoming degraded from levels that were prevalent during most of human development. We don't currently have the capacity to understand Earth systems holistically. but it gives those of us alive today an ultimate objective and high aspirations.
Perhaps the most important work today contributes to a better understanding of how the Earth works altogether, and how best through human action to support that environment for life. I am not at the front lines pushing the limits of human understanding of our Earth. I believe that I have identified how I can fit into that grand mission, by learning and applying and re-teaching as much as I may to those who have eyes or ears or hands or feet, and encouraging them to do the same.
It's rather basic.
Love and care for the land, for it is the land that cares for you.
It's supremely complex.
Caring for the land, and by extension it's living inhabitants from the most endangered species to ourselves, means ensuring that everything else remains in or regains its dynamic balance. So loving the land means caring for the air, water, fire, and ice, because it literally all works together. We have not the computing capacity to analyze or learn, let alone adequately model or manage or optimize everything involved with Earth's systems.
Our incremental inputs to this planet will reverberate harmonically for a very long time, and it is questionable whether such inputs can be counteracted in any beneficial way. In many ways, dynamic balances and harmonic cycles so far identified in the Earth are becoming degraded from levels that were prevalent during most of human development. We don't currently have the capacity to understand Earth systems holistically. but it gives those of us alive today an ultimate objective and high aspirations.
Perhaps the most important work today contributes to a better understanding of how the Earth works altogether, and how best through human action to support that environment for life. I am not at the front lines pushing the limits of human understanding of our Earth. I believe that I have identified how I can fit into that grand mission, by learning and applying and re-teaching as much as I may to those who have eyes or ears or hands or feet, and encouraging them to do the same.