12 Years Ago

Darin Stevenson updated his status.

Sep 28, 2013 9:12:28 pm

Republicans (and similarly-minded omnicidal parasites) favor environmental devastation because they are completely disconnected from the (remaining) terrestrial ecologies, and see them as resources to be converted to objects of commerce. These politicians (and nearly all corporations) know that nature can be ‘leveraged’ as a ‘shock absorber’ to take up the economic slack of downturns and other losses such as those emerging from institutional crime and war. To make desperate matters worse, since we cannot get accurate and modern enough data (and because events and repercussions are vastly more complex than our evaluations allow or could survive) to determine what is going on, we now exist in an environment of decimate what remains first — make excuses later. It should be obvious that Nature is the source of our humanity, our intelligence, our health… and any future we may hope of having. It is also the endless library of teachers, histories, futures, and possibilities from which we draw our own. It is the living mirror in which we know ourselves. It is everything, and our systems of commerce and government are disposable toys in the face of it — not the other way around. In our rush to techno-industrial ‘progress’, our role as participants in Nature has been obscured; we have failed to remember to each other or our children… our own history, to discover anew the peculiar riddle of our place in the vast tree of life from which we diverge so strangely, so dangerously, and so promisingly. This is the question that holds the key to our future. The environment is not a ‘spectator’s luxury’ or a disposable commodity: it is the source -and basis- of human health, awareness, and intelligence. Every form of it. We do not ‘preserve” the environment, it preserves us — and if we assault it we die. What is done in Earth’s ecologies is immediately done in our minds, bodies, and cultures. There is only one organism here, and our peculiar role is not isolated tyrant, but intimate beneficiary… we must invent new and intelligent ways to remember, restore, discover and protect the precious assets that now lie entirely in our delicate and disorganized care. They are as irreplaceable as our own lives, hearts, and children. More, for they form the living womb from which these emerge and take their spirit. f:be different: http://www.facebook.com/uauaiau