WHAT WE COULD BE MISSING

 


WHAT WE COULD BE MISSING

BY: PEGGY WILLIAMS AKA Birdie of Mississippi

You may not be a PBS fan because lots of people aren’t interested in educational programming, but I am becoming more and more of a fan of both PBS and National Geographic as I re-coop on the couch from my fractured bones.  Not every program is educational, but since I enjoy math and science I gravitate toward programs about the earth and about outer space.  The nature programs have helped me learn about the grand scope of our environment down to tiny details about our planet. 

There are programs about what we see when we look through our telescopes here on earth and also about the photos taken of our solar system from Voyager 1 and 2. And the more I watch and learn the more that I want to become like Solomon and have wisdom!  The programs show me how inter-woven every detail of nature and man are.  And even the word “nature” is such an all encompassing word!  Flowers and trees, birds and bees, and water and dirt all intertwined with our “human” lives. 

It becomes more and more visible that one species or lack of a species can affect our human lives and how important nature is to our own survival and prosperity. The modernization and development of our society must go hand in hand with nature or our lives and future generation lives can forever be adversely affected. 

A new series began on Wednesday, October 14 on PBS called “The Age of Nature”.  The first program was to create “a new awareness of nature that helps to restore ecosystems from Panama to Mozambique, repairing man-made damage and restoring reefs, rivers and animal population.” One thing that I enjoyed about this program was the way in which they showed an area that the environment seemed to be damaged beyond repair, but then an individual stepped up with a solution to an environmental problem.   They then showed years later how the solution had turned around the area and made it productive again!  This gave me hope because they were able to turn around areas that seemed utterly hopeless.

They also revealed some things that I had no knowledge of because it happened before most of us were born.  In 1946 the United States released an atomic bomb on a beautiful tropical island called Bikini Atoll, not once but twenty-two times! One of the bombs was 1,000 more times more powerful than the bomb released on Hiroshima!  The radiation and destruction of the bomb killed all the coral reefs and marine life that lived in the ocean surrounding the island and on two islands that were close by. The wildlife that lived on the island was also destroyed including the precious birds of the island.  Hearing of this devastation broke my heart!  The good news is, as time has gone by an awakening has begun and life has come back to the waters and the island.  The coral reefs have revived and fish have come back.  Two of the islands are now inhabited, but Bikini Atoll still has a radiation problem and is uninhabitable.  Because the “cesium 137 has contaminated the land-based food chain, the islanders have not lived on Atoll since 1978 when the islanders left the island for the 2nd time” says Phys.org.

There are young and old people alike that don’t understand that our individual daily actions can affect not only our town, but “our world”.  After watching this program and others like it I have realized even more the importance of my actions in my own yard such as safely disposing of chemicals or even removing a tree.  Each action can cause a reaction in nature.  So as we “Look at the birds of the air…” Matthew 6:26 we do have a responsibility to protect our world collectively and also on an individual basis or we may find a time when there are no “birdies” to look at. 

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  1. DianneOctober 28, 2020 at 5:20 PM

    You made such a good point that our actions affect others and the world around us. Great read!

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    1. BirdieOctober 28, 2020 at 6:11 PM

      Thank you Dianne! I have learned so much by researching for my writing. It makes it very enjoyable. Thanks for reading ♥️

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