More than half full----- if you study things properly

Young People in Australia have a choice. Either they follow the views of the Yvonne Walter’s and the Lisa Neville’s of this world  and try to preserve the dying in museums ,or they can study and support full cycle ecology on the land.  They can follow the blinkered picture or the full picture.  They can keep trees standing up till they fall on someone, or they can study the ecosystem fully so we give the older things  a decent burial and keep the baby with the bathwater ; still have everything from seed to old age, young phases fully integrated with the old. 
Our young people have the choice of letting the ants, termites and fungi eat their way through our great opportunity to sequester the carbon and improve our water quality or, they can sit on their hands in fear- locking the gate.   
Readers in Corangamite area can visit their water supply reservoir wall at Forrest and study the health of three generations of timber harvested forest in its catchment.  Those closer to Warrnambool can wonder at how, with a tiny bit of recycling of iodine, molybdenum and copper, soil nutrients and calcium lost by tree based acidification of water and soils in the Heytesbury can now support higher functioning soils and exports of the best cream products to the world.  It’s more than just taking a glass half full view of the world. It’s moving on from ignorance and fear ; to the sound long term territory of really understanding and caring for all the components of the eco family. 

What we know is

......that we know less and less about more and more?
Einstein said we only have 2 choices, "Either the world is a miracle or it is isn't ".
Susan Neiman in our own day says "Common wonder is too common to cause reverence."

..that we live a in a  forest dark and light places with  growth , death and new life  .
...that we should be learning,  unless of course we know .all there is to know .......

Explore the world of Tolkien and Middle Earth and you'll discover there is good and bad everywhere,  including at home , Unresolved tensions . Watch Frodo , Sam and the ring you'll see no one is exempt from temptation and the need to deal it and real failure using recognition ,repentance and by retracing your steps.
................For it is by grace you are saved ..it is the gift of God.
-- if you don't accept the real way of moving on, you may walk the way of denial - thinking you know , when,  in reality, you not only don't know , but refuse to go where you may learn to know;

Unsure whats really in the glass near you and where all the goodness and grace comes from.