The Azolla Event · Rooted Alchemy

The Azolla Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI3Rr7wdXuQ

A really good video about the Azolla event and how the Arctic as a lake caused the Azola fern to trap the highest level's of carbon the Earth has ever seen. I can't help but feel that the oil companies are actively advising politicians to continue Carbon based emissions so they can exploit this hydrocarbon resource purely for their own benefit. It is in our nature to attach significance to that which does not change as it stands out from the rest of impermanent cyclical nature; from the Thuban of the Ancient Egyptians to the will of Heaven in China, the Polynesian Mana and even Marx's capital we seem to attach value to process that appear to engender change while they themselves appear relatively still. This could well be due to our own fear or mortality, the power such stability appears to hold over the rest of nature, or purely to give our mind's a break from the suffering of Yin and Yang as Zhuangzi puts it: Buddhist adherents view sitting at the center of the wheel as a model of tranquility, like a mountain calmly looking down at the world. Unfortunately as Girard Observes through the eyes of Proust in À la recherche du temps perdu (in Search of Lost Time), our culture doesn't necessarily reward the authentic, and often has a tendency towards sacralizing and regression because it is easier than enduring the uncertainty of change, acceptance of nature being the actual source of tranquility and understanding. Insight and interoception can bring people together with different wants and needs to create networks, self organising systems; if we see our world as a complex of systems rather than just an object for exploitation, it is after all what we really are, an irreducible indivisible complex system.☯️🙏🌍🌏🌎💚💚💚

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