Learning to meditate will help slow global warming 

“Meditation is going to fix global warming, right!” you may think.  Well, as one of many things, it sure will help, and more than you might think at first.  And we’re not talking about telekinesis and Twilight Zone stuff. 

First of all, let’s explain what meditation is.  Meditation is basically quiet introspection.  Doing ‘no-thing.’  Not ‘nothing’, rather ‘no-thing.’  In case I’m confusing you, let me clarify.  Our society, by and large, encourages only external forms of awareness: do this, watch that, go there and come back here.  ‘Sitting still doing nothing’, as an activity, is widely held in low regard.

But in that ‘stillness’ and ‘no-thing-ness’ there is so much richness that most people miss.  Once you get past the preconception that you will be ‘bored’ and start letting external distractions go for a while, you will be vastly surprised by what you find.  It would take days to explain meditation more fully, so I’ll leave it to you to explore the Internet and find a way to learn to do it.

So let’s return to how meditation is going to help reverse global warming.  First of all, if a lot of the ‘going’ and ‘doing’ of people in their spare time was instead spent in quiet meditation, there would be a significant savings of carbon emissions right there.

Second, as meditators know, some of the products of their meditation are wisdom, insight, calm, health, and a host of other positive things.  When you meditate on a thing, you come to understand its deep connections to other things.  When you meditate on a problem, you tend to have inspirations about the cause and cure for that problem.

So learn to meditate.  It will help your health, your wisdom, and will help you find other deep ways to change your habits, and move others to change theirs, to reduce our collective carbon footprint on the planet.