KONY 2012

This blog is dedicated to talking about the environment and everything in it. Various images are evoked by the word "environment," and to many the word conjures up thoughts of trees, animals, and rushing rivers. As a human and the one performing the environmental assessment, there is a tendency to view the environment like a visitor to a zoo views a lion; as an outsider looking in. With a spectator mentality it becomes difficult to see ourselves as part of the action and we lose our ability to self-assess and see that we are part of the environment. Environmental problems are people problems and visa versa. Environment and human social systems are inseparable. In acknowledgement of this, I would like to help bring attention to one of the World's grimmest examples of social injustice and human catastrophe. Joseph Kony is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader that has been committing horrific crimes on humanity for decades. Please follow the link below to watch the 30 minute documentary and get informed. The instability and unrest of the central African people as result of radical warlords like Kony has created a tumultuous ecosystem state. When the apex predator in a system is de-stabalized, it sends ripples down stream affecting everything else. We are Earth's apex predator. As humans we have created significant buffers to natural processes, but these buffers do not exist in perpetuity. In order to remain in balance with the governing laws of our existence and create a sustainable relationship with all the things that have allowed our being, we must create peace within our species.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc&feature=g-logo&context=G2a1d6bdFOAAAAAAABAA