# How Can You Be a True Friend to Earth?

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/05/how-can-you-be-a-true-friend-to-earth/
- Published: 2019-05-17T02:40:52-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

**How Can You Be a True Friend to the Earth?**

“The Earth is in trouble.” “The Earth is dying”  “The Earth has only 30 years left”

Have you ever encountered such statements? Something is going on that will have 
a large effect on all of us.. But the Earth?

The Earth will be just fine. It’s been around for billions of year and will be around
for billions more. The Earth knows how to survive. The Earth knows how to prosper.
The Earth knows how to thrive.

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But do we? Will we be around to thrive with the Earth? Will the Earth be happy with
us being here? 

Any way you look at it, the Earth keeps humming along, keeps growing and evolving
and does just fine. But the inhabitants probably won’t find their lives as happy
and comfortable as they’re used to. 

Thus, the question arises: how can I live on the Earth in a way that co-operates
with the Earth?  How can I know what needs to be done to assist the Earth as what
is coming starts to happen? How can I live in balance on the Earth and know what
to do (and how and when to do it) as these changes start to happen? How can I be
a true friend to the Earth?

That last question is important. If you don’t understand that the Earth is totally
aware of everything happening on the surface (and underground, and in the atmosphere)
then you really need to give up old beliefs and undertake to realize that the Earth
is our wise host and humans are the (not-so-wise) guests.

Just like you are conscious and aware of your environment and your circle of friends
and family, so too is the Earth conscious and aware of her environment **_and_**
her circle of friends and family. A very long time ago, humans were able to communicate
with the Earth and understand the Earth just like you communicate with and understand
your circle of friends and family. Talking with the Earth meant _talking with the
Earth_, just like I can talk to you. Now, once again, some humans are gaining the
old wisdom. And becoming truly friends of the [Earth](https://greenlivingguy.com/2021/06/6-ways-to-make-vaping-more-environmentally-friendly/)
and able to assist the Earth in ways that have been lost for a long, long time.

Anyone can become a true friend of the Earth. All it takes is desire. Once that 
intense desire is there, the next logical step is to find what humans are capable
of – what YOU are capable of – that has been lost for many centuries. 

The Earth is all about balance. Whatever is done to the Earth, all of the Earth’s
processes work to restore the natural balance. (And not just some things –_everything!_)
When humans speculate and guess about ways to make the Earth produce more and more,
all Earth processes are put to work balancing out whatever is done.

A simple example is insects “destroying” a crop. What kind of balance is it when
insects descend on a field and eat everything? Why would the Earth do that, if the
Earth is all about balance?

The _“problem”_ is that humans see from the human point of view. They rarely make
an effort to understand the point of view of the Earth, which is a much bigger picture
than people let themselves see.

Farmers want to make a profit. The vast majority of farmers have the mentality of“
mining the Earth” so that they can make a profit. (No judgement here – that’s just
the way farms have evolved.) Healthy soil, healthy plants and healthy plant consumers
are the least of their concerns. Vast acreages of a single plant type are the desired
goal. When traveling in the midwestern USA, you see such acreages all around – mostly
corn or soybeans.

But monocultures are _not_ balanced. Nature works best when there is a community
of different plants supporting each other. What happens to vast fields of one single
plant type can be thought of as similar to what happens to royalty who marry within
their own family. They don’t allow outsiders. This causes plants to struggle and
grow weak because of the lack of a supporting community of multiple plant types.
When plants become weak, they attract insects.

Insects can be considered predators and the plants are prey. It is well-known that
predators don’t go after the strong members of a prey group. They attack the weakest,
which culls out the weaker members and leaves only the strong to continue propogating.

Insects provide balance by removing the weak plants leaving only strong plants to
propogate. But in a monoculture, they are ALL weak plants. And weak plants also 
cannot contribute to the health of the soil. Thus, the soil gets worse, the plants
get weaker and the cycle continues. Eventually, we will end up with food shortages.

That is just one example of how human ignorance can create crises.

Note that this is NOT a crisis from the point of view of the Earth, although it 
may be seen as a crisis by humans. And whose fault are such crises?

Not the Earth.

So how do we work with the Earth to become a true friend of the Earth? How do we
become aware of what is happening on the Earth? How do we actually communicate with
the Earth? And get our own answers of how to live in such balance that we don’t 
attract crises? Is it even possible?

The answer is unequivocally YES. Anyone can do it. YOU can do it. 

…Burton Smith
 Twitter @earth_know

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