A Paganistic Future

It occurs to me that with oil and gas prices going so high, and global warming getting so hard to deny and recycling becoming so very important, the world is slowly shifting to a nicely pagan point of view. On it's own, even, and without realizing it. But haven't we been saying for fifty-odd years that you have to watch out for what you do because it comes back stronger and badness comes back worse? Haven't we been saying we need to look after and protect the earth instead of damaging and stripping it of all value? Haven't we been saying, at least since the 70s, that there are better ways to live and better ways to run a society?

Here's my hope: These are all just growing pains. I hope that within my life, fuel costs will force a drastic shift toward cleaner, renewable energies, and that this forced shift will drive the whole mentality of the country and the world toward a Gaia-centric place, where we seek to save the world, not use it up, where we try our damnedest to be clean and renewable and post-industrial and useful to the planet and humankind. My hope is that we can green up our cities and power our lives with wind and water and light and not have to give up the technological freedoms we've developed, but can adapt them to better help us improve the species as a whole. That's the goal I think we've all forgotten-- we want the species to survive, and the best way to do that is to repair all the damage we've made and keep the planet alive.