Seven seven

The museum observed two minutes of silence yesterday at noon in rememberance of the 7/7 bombings last year in London. I gathered with maybe two hundred people: visitors, staff, directors, contractors in the central hall. There was an announcement and a low hush spread over the crowd. As i looked around, i realized that the number of people standing together is only a fraction of the number of people injured by the blasts. It is such a heavy and tragic feeling, to confront the sudden deaths and numbers of people killed and injured. It made the knowledge of the 7/7 evenets feel much more weighty, real - the victims were robbed of their lives, and the ripples were intense through the fabric of society.

I do believe that we can, and will, find ways to stop killing and harming each other. Saving all sentient beings from suffering is our goal. If we move toward that, we fix everything, including environmental and social problems. Environmental conservation IS about social values shifting, and as Jared Diamond so thoroughly illustrates, all environmental degredation has been one of the pillars leading to societal collapse in history. So in order for anything to change, everything has to change, and everyone has to do their part. Listen, good people: continue to be the change you wish to see in the world, especially in the face of adversity.