Yeah, I know, I know.
Y'all thought I'd finally kicked the bucket on some fool's errand into the deepest parts of Amazonas looking for El Dorado, or drowned while searching for Atlantis, right? Well, you can be at ease - I'm still kicking. Haven't been much with adventures lately, though. School is taking up way too much of my time. I gotta study like hell to get into the university education I want, so that I can become an archaeologist. And I also must find a job that brings in some reasonable dough for me to use on getting a driver's and diver's license (Haha, get it? Diver's, Driver's... Gawd, I'm funny). Other than that, I've just been generally lazy and tired.
So, anyways, a pal of mine asked me on a forum here on the Net, what's your absolute number one dream vacation? I had several. The Andes - to wander them would be like the vacation of my life! Kilimanjaro - to walk to Kilimanjaro would be an adventure like nothing else, though I wouldn't try to climb it - too cold, and I hate cold. And of course, diving in the Carribbean or Bermuda, maybe find the lost city of Atlantis.
We all have our dream vacations, and as long as they're our dream vacations, they are adventures in their own right - you don't have to cross the Sahara desert by foot to experience an adventure. At it's essence, an adventure is individual, and means basically, as long as you do something you wouldn't normally do, and as long as you enjoy, nay, love it, then it is your adventure. And I think everybody feel better experiencing an adventure, a chance to get away from the hectic life we live these days.
Well, I have no real message for y'all today, just that I'll try to blog more often, if there is anyone who reads my blog regularly. Oh, one more thing. If there is, PLEASE, make yourself heard and voice your opinions, be it through email or leaving a comment on my blog entries. I enjoy reading responses to my ramblings.
I'm also still single, so if you're a pretty girl, please let me know.
Henrik
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
The Scale of Life
When I got an assignment in my nature science class to do a piece of work about something that could be connected to nature, I didn't know what to write about at first. But I remembered hearing about a beautiful region in South America once, called the Pantanal. It's supposed to be lush savannas combined with wetlands, and a heaven for ecologists and biologists because of it's wide array of species and fauna. So, off I went to the library, and grabbed all books that I could find about Brazil and the Pantanal.
Now, I've started to read about it. I've seen pictures as well, and I think it's safe to say that one day, I'll be setting my foot in the beautiful paradise known as the Pantanal. That is of course, if it's not gone before my time.
Because, you see, the threats to the Amazon rain forest are bad enough. But there is also a threat towards the Pantanal. And this is not just Brazil being a corrupt nation where dough matters more than Mother Nature's gifts to us. No, no. Here in Sweden, I see the same thing - we give up more and more of our wild nature, to get more and more energy, to support a growing society that soon won't be able to support itself any longer - and Mother Nature is groaning from the weight of it.
I don't believe in the Global Warming at this point. But I still believe in heavy metals, chemicals, poison, diminishing species due to poaching and hunting, poisoning of rivers and other raping of Nature. These threats are very real. If the Global Warming is true, at best it will raise the temperature a few points, but this... This is where our real threat lies, not only to Nature, but to ourselves as well. If we poison Nature, pretty soon there won't be anything that can help us support ourselves, that we have not poisoned.
I believe life on this planet was meant to develop as it has, including us. But I also believe that someone somewhere in the skies made a mistake when he planned this. I think that humans were meant to walk in a constant balance with Nature - our industrial capability, versus Mother Nature's needs and wants. And right now, on that scale we humans are obese, and Mother Nature is starving. The balance has been disrupted, and if it continues as it does, then pretty soon, we will fall through the floor and we as a human race will be completely wiped out because of nobody but ourselves.
In other words,
We as the next generation of leaders, businessmen, and coincidentally, adventurers, must take a step backwards, see what we've done to our planet. And then it's our job to restore the balance on the Scale of Life. Only after that can we begin to make a better world for ourselves and our fellow humans.
Never sacrifice your home out of greed for money - because what is money worth when you have nowhere to live, nothing to feed on, no pure water to drink? What is money when your entire race collapses because of your need for it? Let me answer that question for you.
It's a curse.
Henrik
Now, I've started to read about it. I've seen pictures as well, and I think it's safe to say that one day, I'll be setting my foot in the beautiful paradise known as the Pantanal. That is of course, if it's not gone before my time.
Because, you see, the threats to the Amazon rain forest are bad enough. But there is also a threat towards the Pantanal. And this is not just Brazil being a corrupt nation where dough matters more than Mother Nature's gifts to us. No, no. Here in Sweden, I see the same thing - we give up more and more of our wild nature, to get more and more energy, to support a growing society that soon won't be able to support itself any longer - and Mother Nature is groaning from the weight of it.
I don't believe in the Global Warming at this point. But I still believe in heavy metals, chemicals, poison, diminishing species due to poaching and hunting, poisoning of rivers and other raping of Nature. These threats are very real. If the Global Warming is true, at best it will raise the temperature a few points, but this... This is where our real threat lies, not only to Nature, but to ourselves as well. If we poison Nature, pretty soon there won't be anything that can help us support ourselves, that we have not poisoned.
I believe life on this planet was meant to develop as it has, including us. But I also believe that someone somewhere in the skies made a mistake when he planned this. I think that humans were meant to walk in a constant balance with Nature - our industrial capability, versus Mother Nature's needs and wants. And right now, on that scale we humans are obese, and Mother Nature is starving. The balance has been disrupted, and if it continues as it does, then pretty soon, we will fall through the floor and we as a human race will be completely wiped out because of nobody but ourselves.
In other words,
We as the next generation of leaders, businessmen, and coincidentally, adventurers, must take a step backwards, see what we've done to our planet. And then it's our job to restore the balance on the Scale of Life. Only after that can we begin to make a better world for ourselves and our fellow humans.
Never sacrifice your home out of greed for money - because what is money worth when you have nowhere to live, nothing to feed on, no pure water to drink? What is money when your entire race collapses because of your need for it? Let me answer that question for you.
It's a curse.
Henrik
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