Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1400744 Comments:2390
...once or twice I have found a bee trapped in the more-rich-than-Cleopatra's tomb of a tulip or a day lily, unable to back out of the narrow orifice or to turn around, dead of exhaustion.
Yet bees, one should suppose, ought to be immortal, ought to be exempt from death. For are they not the world's only truly innocent creatures? No living thing dies to give them or their offspring sustenance; when they feed they are giving rather than taking life; and when they resort to their only gesture of self-defense it is an act of suicide.
Coming down off the hill carrying my telescope, it occurred to me, as it had a hundred times before, that I am one of the lucky ones. This is all I have so far in my life wanted or needed. But I cannot help wondering what will become of people like me when the world is cemented over.
I felt fragile and depressed, a last surviving member of a species threatened with extinction.
Paul Kingsnorth wrote:
"I withdraw, you see. I withdraw from the campaigning and the marching, I withdraw from the arguing and the talked-up necessity and all of the false assumptions. I withdraw from the words. I am leaving.
I am going to go out walking." "I am leaving on a pilgrimage to find what I left behind in the jungles and by the cold campfires and in the parts of my head and my heart that I have been skirting around because I have been busy fragmenting the world in order to save it;
busy believing it is mine to save. I am going to listen to the wind and see what it tells me, or whether it tells me anything at all. You see, it turns out that I have more time than I thought. I will follow the songlines and see what they sing to me and maybe, one day, I might even come back.
And if I am very lucky I might bring with me a harvest of fresh tales, which I can scatter like apple seeds across this tired and angry land."
Negotiating on behalf of Nature, for Gaia, is a sacred duty.
Environmentalism is not just a career move. As Paul Sears warned 40 years ago, “Ecology is a subversive subject,” because ecology will demand that we completely re-evaluate our assumptions. We do not get to rewrite the laws of biology, physics, thermodynamics, and exponential growth for our own convenience.
We need ecological leaders who understand ecology and biophysical laws, and who feel a deep, sacred respect for Nature itself.
Ecologists...
It's been a while since I've seen that word....strange that....;}
....understand that climate change from CO2 is only one aspect of the vortex of calamities that is fast evolving, which derives from the full bludgeoning of anthropomorphic tyranny - habitat destruction, resource extraction, and pollution. The single-minded emphasis on CO2 enables activists and scientists the fantasy that we can solve the problem by switching to green energy.
Even assuming that transition is physically possible - and I seriously doubt it is - that wouldn't be enough to spare our species and all others from extermination. As a mindset it is not merely insufficient - it's a distraction, which ultimately makes it an integral part of the problem, although good luck convincing anyone of that.
