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In the summer of 1994, Neale Donald Walsch wrote the third book in the Conversations with God trilogy and based this book on universal issues, and while discussing the behavior of highly evolved beings, once more the matter of how human beings on our planet ruthlessly destroy our ecosystem without any thought of the consequences. I'm referring to the clearing of the Amazon Rain Forest. This is an extract from the book:
"The book I mentioned earlier as being of critical importance The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight describes all of this magnificently. It says that trees take carbon dioxide out of your atmosphere, using the carbon portion of this atmospheric gas to make carbohydrates that is, to grow. Meanwhile, the oxygen portion of this gas is released by the tree. It is the tree's "waste matter".
Human beings, on the other hand, need oxygen to survive. Without trees to convert the carbon dioxide, which is plentiful in your atmosphere, into oxygen which is not you as a species cannot survive. You, in turn release (breathe out) carbon dioxide, which the tree needs to survive. Do you see the balance?
The oxygen manufacturing plant which you call the Amazon rain forest can be replaced in its capacity to balance your planet's atmosphere is, say, two or three thousand years. Not to worry. You're clearing thousands of acres every year!
You clear the land so that you can raise cattle to slaughter and eat. Raising cattle is said to produce more income for the indigenous people of the rain forest country. So this is all proclaimed to be about making the land productive.
In highly evolved civilizations, eroding the speciesystem is not looked at as productive, but rather destructive. They choose to do this rather than serve the desires of one small portion of the system, for they realize that no species within the system can survive if the system itself is destroyed."
This destruction is ongoing and the indigenous tribes living in the forest are protesting, but will anyone take notice? An area as large as 200 football fields is being destroyed every hour.
This is so incredibly sad, that I felt compelled to write about this today to ask each and everyone to say a prayer not only for Mother Earth, but let's also pray for the enlightenment of those that are the cause of this destruction. Let us pray for global consciousness!
