Naomi Klein. George Carlin. Ward Churchill.
Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve. Naomi Klein.
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
George Carlin.
The underlying motivation prompting the genocide of Native Americans, the lust for their territories and the resources within them, is typically hidden behind a rhetoric extolling the “settlement” of essentially vacant and “undiscovered” lands. To admit otherwise risks revealing that the past motive for genocide exists as much today, and in some ways more so.The processes are not simply genocidal; they are increasingly ecocidal in their implications. Not only the people of the land are being destroyed, but, more and more, the land itself. The nature of Native resistance to the continuing onslaught of the invading industrial cultural is shaped accordingly. It is a resistance forged in the crucible of a struggle for survival. Ward Churchill (Creek/Cherokee Métis). *
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” First Nations proverb.
