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The Environment
Lazaris
What is going to happen with the environment?
You can look at the environmental issues not only throughout the United States, but also throughout the world. Perhaps that is what part of the lesson of Chernobyl was about: You can't just clean up your own environment and think that all of a sudden the world is going to be safe. Just because they closed down the nuclear plant in your neighborhood doesn't mean that they're going to do so around the world. That you can clean up your own environment is indeed a valuable approach—it is the place to begin—but do not fool yourself into thinking that is all you must do.
Realize that the environment is complex issue. If you want to, you can find far too many examples to suggest that there's no hope, there's no solution, and there are no answers. With the wilderness areas it can seem "too late." Many are shrugging their shoulders and saying
"It's over." It doesn't have to be that way, though.
The first answer is that you need to stop blaming. Stop blaming somebody else for the problem. Westerners get together and blame the Third Worlders, and the Third Worlders get together and blame the Westerners and the Easterners. Everybody blames everybody else.
There are conferences (we're oversimplifying here) where people spend three-quarters of the time figuring out "who's at fault here," and maybe one-quarter of the time realizing "we need to find a solution," and then everyone goes home.
If these groups would just stop blaming one another. If they stop deciding who's the culprit and who's the bad guy. And if they start looking at the fact that "yes, we have a problem and let's start Dreaming the solution" the solutions will present themselves.
The second answer is to start Dreaming. (We use a capital "" on the word Dreaming, because we're not speaking of getting daydreamy, or just wishfully thinking.) We're suggesting that you start Dreaming—Dreaming of solutions, Dreaming of answers, deciding what world you want to have. Make the decision about what the world should look like in five years, in 10 years—at least your world personally, if not the world-at-large.
This is already in evidence. For many months we have encouraged Dreaming and Visioning. As people, individuals like you and your friends, start Dreaming—not waiting for the officials, not waiting for your bureaucrats—solutions can be found. Start Dreaming. Stop blaming and start Dreaming. And as others around you stop blaming and start Dreaming, stop blaming and start Dreaming, it grows, it grows. Solutions can be found.
Case in point: the deforestation problem. For the first time in 10 years there is optimism. There have been conferences of the dignitaries—the "men of the world," and some women for that matter, from the forest-producing nations and from forest-using nations. For 10 years they have bickered. For 10 years they have blamed. For 10 years they've met, and they've gotten nowhere. Now, for the first time, they've gotten somewhere. For the first time there is definite progress in the reforesting process. The progress was not to stop people from cutting down trees, but to teach them how to cut them down more effectively and to teach them how to replace them much more quickly. There is hope now like there never has been before.
It's a beginning that can expand, and it is going to spread into other areas of the environment. Not every species will be saved. There will be those that will be tragically lost and never recovered.
Release that part of you that wants to find out "who did this to me?" Start realizing you have to pull together to create what we call a "synergy of decision-making." Here, indeed, each party contributes something, and the whole they create—the ultimate decision, the ultimate policy—is greater than any sum of the parts. As that starts happening, solutions—simple ones, more complex ones, and then more intricate ones—are ultimately going to be found.
The environment will suffer, but it will not be destroyed. Wilderness will be appreciated, and
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will come back. The balance between animals and wilderness will similarly prosper and flourish. As cynical as you can become in your world, thinking that no one really cares about the gentleness of a flower (and we suggest it can look that way), when it comes right down to it, yes, you do care. You, as a human consciousness, do care and will make the difference. You will change the direction of the future. The world and its environment will be a whole lot better than the cynical part of each person would imagine it would be.
With love and peace. Lazaris
1988 NPN Publishing Inc., from Lazaris Interviews, Book II
For further information about Lazaris, please call or write Concept: Synergy, 3092 South County Rd., Suite 109, Palm Beach, FL 33480, (407) 588-9599. Lazaris is the author of three books (The Sacred Journey: You and Your Higher Self, Lazaris Interviews: Book I and Book II), more than 75 audio tapes and 17 video tapes, and conducts seminars regularly in major American and Canadian cities. | 
