Earth Activism in the Wind and Waves
Governments, corporations, militaries:
these are not people. Their power is based on violent separation from
life, domination from afar. They consistently put poisons into the
Earth. And who defends the Earth? Individual souls and small groups
like families where love grows, or neighborhoods, which can then grow
into movements. But we activists, whatever our campaign, have been
unable to change the devotion of major institutions to toxins and war.
So - who defends the Earth? The Earth
defends itself. The Earth is the only living being that responds
realistically to the poisons we put in the air, water and soil. Look at
the Earth now. In the 500 mile
path of Hurricane Helene’s destruction, there are completely
depoliticized Americans who are looking up at the sky and wondering for
the first time, “All this. Where does it come from?”
Can we create a new kind of activism with
the Earth as our teacher? Maybe we don’t notice it sometimes, but the
Earth is already there in our work. When we think of our activism, we
need to see the Earth in the risk we take. The Earth urges us on! The
Earth is the ultimate activist, putting fierce love into our resistance.
The wind and waves lead us through old walls to a question we have avoided for centuries. “All this..."
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