Judy Price is Writing

As I prepare for my first trip overseas, my thoughts turn to flights that have been cancelled due to potential risk from volcanic ash/dust, and numerous other unpredictable events that have occurred in recent months, weeks, and days. 

There are some disasters in the world for which no one can be held accountable.

The Icelandic volcano is one of these, along with deadly tornadoes and flooding in the southern states.

Freak snowstorms during May in Edmonton, Alberta could also be culpable for accidental deaths.

In contrast, there are devastating occurrences like the Atlantic explosion of an offshore oil drilling rig, creating the Gulf oil ‘spill’ which threatens our delicate ecosystems and wildlife, that have such far-reaching and long-term unknown consequences, we can only shake our heads in disbelief and disgust.

Our dependency on oil to the extent that we are willing to sacrifice lives, both human and animal, by drilling for black ‘gold’ deeply into our oceans, as well as our disregard for developing alternative energy sources in a timely manner to ‘save’ this planet, deserves corporate and government accountability. 

In fact, every individual has some responsibility to decrease his/her own environmental footprint, no matter how trivial an action it might seem.

In spite of being interdependently connected globally; both electronically and economically, very few of us take our stewardship roles for this planet seriously. 

Collectively, we impact our universe in unimaginable ways. 

Each of us creates thought energy in the world which is either positive or negative, which in turn affects our behaviour toward others and this home we call earth.

We are all accountable to our planet and its’ place in the universe.

We are all accountable to each other.