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Sharing Earth's Resources
Sharing Earth's Resources
Since the Earth’s resources are not evenly distributed geographically, some areas
have an abundance of natural resources while other areas have a paucity of natural
resources. Regardless, given Earth’s present geopolitical structure, there is no
country in the world in which all its citizens have the wherewithal to support
themselves in an adequate lifestyle. That’s because of the way resources are owned
and distributed. Therefore, the way natural resources are owned and distributed
needs to be changed, and that means national sovereignty can no longer extend to
the natural resources found within the area claimed by each nation.
The question is what can be done to insure that everyone and everything has what
is needed to sustain a healthy, productive existance?
Be all you can be and do all you can do as long as what you choose to be and what
you choose to do isn't harmful to yourself or to others or to anything else in
Creation, and it doesn't prevent anyone or anything else from doing likewise. And,
just as important, trust that every other person will behave in like manner.
Humans, having evolved from instinctive creatures into sentient beings who are
able to think and communicate their thoughts to other humans more effectively
than any other creature living on Earth, have become Earth's most accomplished
complex lifeform, but they are still struggling to overcome the instinctive
animalistic reactions to threat and provocation that have influenced their behavior
from the beginning of human existance, even as they have organized themselves
into ever more effective societal relationships which are intended to moderate
those destructive inclinations and to improve humanity’s ability to peacefully
coexist with one another. Never-the-less, human beings have an innate mutual
empathy for one another which means they have the capacity for caring about the
well-being and happiness of other human beings, even human beings with whom
they have no personal relationship. Therefore, it is time for all human beings to
enable their mutual empathy and accept that every individual member of their
species has the potential to improve the species as a whole.
In order to do that, humans must recognize that they and all other humans
constitute a worldwide community of the same species and that the survival of
every species depends on every one of its members having the opportunity to
thrive. Therefore, Earth's resources need to be more effectively and efficiently
utilized so that all human beings, regardless of where on Earth they live, are able to
achieve a healthy, productive standard of living in a living environment which is as
supportive of healthy living as possible.
In other words, every human being is precious to the species, and each of us must
adopt the attitude that as long as an individual is not doing anything that physically
threatens our own wellbeing or the wellbeing of anything or anyone else, that
individual should be allowed to live life however he or she pleases. It shouldn't
matter what a person’s physical appearance is like or what religion a person
practices or whether he or she practices any religion. Physical appearance is
superficial, and religion is simply a means of teaching people how to treat one
another. Therefore, as long as people have mutual empathy toward one another
and learn to adhere to the basic precept in all that they do, the color of a person’s
skin color, a person’s physical appearance and the religious rituals a person
practices are immaterial. The important thing is for everyone to respect and care
for themselves as well as everyone and everything else they affect in the course of
living their life, because, in the final analysis, the well-being of all life on Earth
depends on the symbiotic relationships that every individual organism has with all
the other organisms which are essential to its survival.