Live Earth pt II

I honestly believe that our penchant for polluting is that we’ve completely lost our connection to the earth. No connection, no respect, no earth. We need look no further than the first inhabitants of North America, the aboriginal people, for some very simple lessons. To most tribes the earth was sacred, a gift from the Creator. The earth provided food and shelter and sustenance. What was taken was to be given back. It was not treated as disposable, as though once we’d used up this earth we could just move on to the next one. Do some reading on the Lipan Apache – some pretty interesting lessons from people who relied solely on the earth, and so learned to co-exist with it rather than destroying it.

Earth is not a convenience store. Once the air is filled with Co2 it’s gone. Once the water is undrinkable there’s no more. Think on this for a second – why are we all drinking bottled water? Was there not a time in recent history where we trusted what came out of the tap? Well much to the delight of bottled water producers we no longer trust anything that doesn’t come from a plastic bottle – except that the plastic bottle itself is now the problem, and we have been “trained” that the very essence of life itself, water, is a commercial commodity.

Earth is not a fast food outlet. The greatest thieves of the planet’s natural resources are corporations like McDonald’s. They wantonly plow down entire forests so that they can speed-raise cattle for hamburgers – then they process the hell out of the meat and sell it to us with a clown and a toy. How f**king perverse is THAT???!!! Poison the earth AND it’s people.

Earth is not a gas pump. I will point the finger just as readily as the next person at Exxon et al, yet supply and demand dictates that if we take Hummers and every other gas-guzzling monster off the road then Exxon et al will have no choice but to adapt and start offering alternative, cleaner sources of fuel.

We can no longer rely on governments to fix what’s broken, we can only rely on ourselves. We own this earth, we have to affect change.