mindfulness

  Let the soil pay its simple part.  We have for thousands of years worshipped the shepherds, The priests, the farmer, the cowboys, not the least in the pastorals, from the antic Greeks until today.  Well they didn't know in past times, but we do know; the farming of cows, sheep, deer and so on need a huge area of land where there could have been grasslands or forests (to take up the carbon acid. The cows shit and burp methane  that makes the climate effect even stronger. If we stopped eating meet, we would have a lot more time so respond to the climate effect and wildlife would flourish in the new areas So what would we eat instead. George Monbiot has an answer; 

 Some things you shouldn´t know to early in your life. But if your curious. like me, you might end here, and that's all right. Is the free will problem solved? Robert Sapolsky says yes.  He is an   "American  neuroendocrinology  researcher and author. He is a professor of  biology ,  neurology , neurological sciences, and  neurosurgery  at  Stanford University . In addition, he is a research associate at the  National Museums of Kenya . " (Wikipedia) The knowledge might cool you down, and say to your children, like Neil de Grasse Tyson´s father said when people had shouted the n-word to him: Stay cool, the don´t understand, they are raised like that. He could have concluded; that's what dopamine do to us - and that are where the chemistry of the brain come in. Dopamine makes us friendly to our friends and family but hostile to strangers.  Of course culture interact in the situation too, and that was what de Grasse Tyson´s father had understood. And of course  things l