Cleanse the World.

Ah, the brooding question in the back of everyone's mind since they were taught about the Mayans. Will 2012 bring the end of the world? The answer? No. (Click "No." to read about other end of the world predictions.) Every generation or 20-40 years or so, people are totally convinced that the world, time and air are all just going to... stop. Wrong.

Lately, the weather's been pretty wild. Japan is timing their next earthquake/tsunami duo like a hostess seats a nine-top at a restaurant. It's not raining cats and dogs but it rains birds, literally. A menagerie of sea creatures  appear in fishermens' nets and float, dead ashore.

These events make me weary, too. Although, it is all part of the Earth cleansing itself. We have to help cleanse the Earth, too. Why do you think the Hippies were so keen on communes, Earth Day and recycling?

This is what we're doing to our home:

Creating continent sized monsters of garbage, every time you toss that plastic water bottle out the window it ends up somewhere it could kill animals or end up changing the ecosystem. Wanna see the impact? Check out the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

To follow the Garbage Patch, fish and birds feed off the patch assume its consumable food. This is what happens,

For more pictures, click the bird.

It's ridiculous how we perceive our one small action as something so minuscule, however, we have to multiple that simple action by 7 billion times. 

Do little things. Pick up the McDonalds wrapper on the ground. Don't toss cigarette butts out the window. Reuse water bottles. Every little bit helps. 

Another bit to tie in the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling wrote many screenplays about the take over of technology. The abundance and the advancement but of course, during his era, it was merely science fiction. Today, we get so wrapped up into how exciting technology is, how it revolutionizes everything and that it makes everything easy. Yet, if everything is easy then we become lazy. Hence the lack of recycling and growth of destruction of our environment. Technology should not make things too easy but be there to aid in strengthening our growth towards furthering our advancement as a society. If we allow technology to become stronger than us, our role/function/jobs in society will be quickly obsolete.