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Earth Treatise: Living for the Earth: Love, Protect, Restore and Kill?! for Gaia

Subject: EARTH MEANDERS: Earth Treatise: Living for the Earth
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:24:37 -0500
From: "GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org" GlenBarry@EcologicalInternet.org
To: Joseph Germain Dufour globalcommunity@telus.net

Earth Treatise: Living for the Earth Love, Protect, Restore and Kill?! for Gaia

Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry
http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/
June 7, 2006

The Earth is both sacred and dying. There is no better way to live your life than committing to serving Gaia. As the sum total of the global ecosystem and all biological life, Gaia is the giver of life and worthy of service, worship and if need be revolutionary violence. It is not suggested you become an aesthete militant monk, but rather you do something special with your life. Please consider perfectly achievable lifestyle changes, which simplify and give meaning to your life, in order to align your existence with the needs of the Earth and future humanity. I conclude by considering whether there must be killing to save the Earth.

Live Simply, Joyfully and Well

Live simply, laugh often and love much. Marvel at and be part of the natural world. Study the sky and stars, learn to identify plants and their uses, and watch ants work and play. Find a special intact ecological place to do all you can to protect. Research, organize, agitate and grow the Earth movement to protect your special place, resist ecocide and achieve global ecological sustainability. Raise your children simply with love, respect and discipline; teaching right from wrong and a deep and enduring love for the Earth.

Live a carbon neutral lifestyle. Have one or, if you must, at most two children. Consume quality essentials while spurning false needs. Eat low on the food chain - little or no meat and organic, local foodstuffs when possible. Avoid all old growth wood, toxic poisons and false profits. Find a piece of land to sustain your being while lovingly restoring it to a fully functional ecosystem. Plant and care for seeds native to your bioregion. Feel the mud in your toes.

Love, love and then love some more. Seek truth and knowledge and goodness and justice; valuing ideas, thought and truth rather than celebrity and more material stuff. Be not afraid as your death is certain; rather, concern yourself with how you shall live. When you make mistakes (as you will) get up out of the mud, clean yourself up, and go on wiser for having lived.

Make love. Work hard at a worthy and sustainable livelihood. And then make love again. Enjoy drink and herb in moderation except when you choose to do otherwise. Rejoice at art and sport, beauty and truth. Feel awe and fear in the wilderness even as you rejoice at your and human insignificance. Live, breathe and rejoice at the wonder of creation and then fight like hell to keep it that way. Be. Be alive. Be free. Be one with the Earth.

Further Ruminations on Earth Revolution

As far as we know the only life exists here on the Earth. From primordial sea mats magnificent creatures have evolved including the often violent hairless ape with the opposable thumb. Human life is utterly dependent upon the Earth's ecosystems. Cessation of key ecosystem services such as climatic patterns, fish populations, desertification and many others - which is already happening and accelerating - will mean mass human suffering and death on a magnitude never before seen. It is likely that positive feedbacks as a result of massive and rapid human impacts will rip Gaia apart, making complex life improbable for a very long time.

Let me hypothetically comment further upon Earth revolution. As a last resort when all else has failed, it may be necessary to make a last stand before it is too late, which means soon. It is difficult for me to say as one who left the army as a conscientious objector that in our current unsustainable situation it may be better to kill some now than allow humanity to perish forever. Killing to save the Earth and all her beings is a difficult topic to broach, and I do so not to incite violence, but out of moral and intellectual responsibility to consider all options for saving the Earth.

At some point as the world's rainforests, climate, water and oceans are destroyed for a fast buck - and as all entreaties to power and the elite are rebuffed - all right minded people have to at least consider whether they wish to die with or without a fight and dignity. Have you ever wondered as I have why many Jewish victims of nazism did not resist when being lead to slaughter? Will you die as they did? To suggest one would kill to defeat Hitler but not to save the Earth is morally inconsistent.

You may want to commit yourself to revolutionary action for the Earth. By joining a leaderless and global Earth insurgency, you may choose to show love by destroying oil wells, coal plants and other deadly manifestations of the cancerous growth machine. Killing evil that is destroying creation, washing your hands, and returning to tilling and caring for the Earth could make all the difference between hope and death for the Earth and all her creatures.

Become a cog in the wheel of global ecocide and let there be no compromise in her defense. Embrace non-violence and reject militarism, but be willing to strategically sabotage, fight and if absolutely necessary kill. Do not do so needlessly and make all efforts to not harm innocents.

Be fully cognizant of, and act upon, the incontrovertible truth that with death looming for the Earth, and extinction for most of her species including humans, the only hope for a future is that those entities and their principals driving the Earth's destruction immediately cease their evil activities. Ideally this will be achieved willingly through logical discourse, protest and political processes. Otherwise they may need and deserve to be destroyed. The selfish actions of these Earth destroyers - and there are various levels of culpability from oil executives to SUV owners - is causing global ecological collapse that will kill widely and indiscriminately, unlike Earth revolutionaries, making no effort to spare the innocent.

I have come to believe there is no hope or honor in non-violence at all costs, as the biological foundation of being is destroyed to fuel industrial society. This is a different battle than that of Martin Luther King or Gandhi - it is a battle for our very survival and the habitat required to do so. Fighting violently for an unknowable god and/or country is vacuous and meaningless. Fighting for your Earthly home, future descendents and 3.5 billion years of evolution is glorious, meaningful and holy.

The Earth and humanity's future (if there is to be one) is gentle, just and egalitarian - societies and individuals living simple, sustainable and meaningful lives. Violence has no place unless it is in defense of the very foundation of Earth's life - and after the destroyers have refused to stop despite years of reasonable requests and mounting evidence of the dire consequences of their savagery.

Sadly, I do not see a future for the Earth and humanity that does not include massive violence - either through mayhem as a grossly unsustainable society and economy collapses, or by Earth revolutionaries overthrowing the Earth destroyers thereby averting global ecosystem collapse and ushering in an era of hope, justice, equity and sustainability.

Align your being with the needs of the Earth, doing all this and more, and convince others to do likewise, and your children's children will have a habitat. Do nothing and the Earth and humanity are finished. Show your love and live as if your life depends upon the Earth. It does.

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Earth Meanders is a series of personal essays that places questions of environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues. Comments can be made, and past writings can be found, at: http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/ . Emailed comments will be posted there as well. Permission is granted to reprint this essay provided it is properly credited.
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