The environment is not our most pressing concern!
Martin Rothery has been working within the mental health sector helping people with all levels of issues with physical, mental and spiritual health. He is the founder and Creator of Sanomentology, a program for helping people to resolve their issues.
He has this to say:
"The environment and saving our planet is not our most pressing issue.
There is a bigger one, and one that will fuel the demise of the environment and the rest of our existence as we know it.
The more pressing issue is that of our mental health, not just as individuals but as a species.
Physical, mental, and spiritual health are all suffering at a global level, and it's becoming a vicious, self sustaining cycle.
This is a plight that is plaguing every country, every race, every class, every nation. Rich and poor suffer alike, and effective help almost impossible to get access to.
The environment issue is one that is being played out as a political game on a global stage, alongside many other global situations; energy, finance, recourses etc.
This is having a drip down effect on the general population. General anxiety and depression is becoming more commonplace. Addictions as coping mechanisms are becoming more widespread. Suicide, self harm, and other issues are rising globally.
This general discourse is played out in almost dismissive levels by socially driven substitutes such as in the worries of the way we look, the things we own, what others think of us. This issue is accelerating exponentially with each new generation.
The average person cares more about the menial things than they do about the big picture. And while this is happening, the global game continues to wreck our world.
Until our physical, mental, and spiritual health is prioritised, this cycle will continue on an everlasting downward spiral, a maelstrom dragging all of us blindly down into a bottomless pit of despair.
Our own healing is paramount to the healing of the world. A focus on our own mental, physical and spiritual health will result in the whole world being able to direct the wasted energy onto the larger issues. Once we are able to heal ourselves, then we can focus on healing the world.
Until then we are playing a futile game."
Martin Rothery
Founder and Creator of Sanomentology