Please take a moment to remember, according to your beliefs, all the people in the world who are suffering as a result of natural or unnatural disasters. If you see an ambulance or hear a siren take a moment to offer reverence for those involved. Disaster is very close to all of us. We are all one simple misjudgment or change in the weather away from being in need.
China Quake
Tsunami
Japan Quake
Mid west flooding
Darfur
cluster bombs... ETC ETC Etc...

It seems to me that much of the world is in crisis now and that much of humanity is way to comfortable with this. Beware the comfort zone and the Shifting baseline; both are sweet poisons.

Thank you for your consideration.
May you all be blessed according to your beliefs.

Yes, seasonal and briefs repetitive variations above and below the baseline are normal, the ecosystem is fit to it... but even slights variations in the baseline itself represents greater localized variations, the effects are cumulative, the results....
But for some time yet we will assist economical interest trying negating then. People presenting results of these variations between the eras, forgetting to remember they almost aways brought disaster. And now we our selves are the ones able to to this, in unnatural and nonadaptative way, maybe beyond nature self balancing.

Yes nosisab.
Nature was tested by at least millions of years and She became Truth. Humanity has found knowledge and we enforce technologies that have not been tested. Wisdom demands a slow and careful pace on new paths and yet we run blindly through virtual darkness.

Let us toil for our exercise: it is healthy to work.
Let us seek efficiencies according to truth.
Let Us not live off the stores (fossil fuels) of the Mother Earth. These stores are for emergencies.

Help our leaders to act according to reality.
Help our teachers to guide us onto the paths of true wisdom.
Help our children to forgive us for our weaknesses and to overcome our bad examples.

We must head the visions of our seers.
We must be that that is.
We must overcome the Comfort Zone.

I do not ask this of a deity I ask it of Humanity.
We are the truth.
We are that that is and we decide that that will be.

When I say let it be so, I am asking all of Humanity to so mote it be.