Wednesday December 5, 4:30-6 p.m., Emmanuel Parish Hall
— from Natalie Menacho for Orcas Women’s Coalition —
Community Rights San Juan Islands (CRSJI) is hosting a community discussion forum about Rights of Nature and Rights of the Salish Sea. Kai Huschke from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) will give background on the growing movement to recognize legal rights for nature over corporations and profit.
There will be a Q&A as well as an update on the draft initiative CELDF is crafting for San Juan County.
Since this event is at dinner time, feel free to bring some snacks and finger foods with you.
What a wonderful concept…that nature has a RIGHT to exist!!!!
What if we sobered up and awakened from our thought-induced voluntary coma?
It may dawn on us that we are in fact that very nature we’ve ignorantly objectified to ruinious ends; that this artificial separation rooted in our narcissism and deep insecurity (to be other than what we are) may finally be revealed to be the long sought after culprit behind ours and the planet’s decline.
Imagine what we could accomplish if we were just a tad more conscious now that we’ve begun to self-direct our own evolution.
Did anyone happen to catch the news lately about our global “success” on the ecological front? Tick tock, tick tock.
What we have here is delusion being termed as “progress” which should more accurately be labeled as “a managed decline.”
Hard to keep the fairy tale programs running if reality holds any value to us (nature) and our only home, Earth. Unplug.
Btw, how’s that been working for the planet?
Just realize…it doesn’t have to be this way.
You only “think” you’re powerless to choose!
We can wake up.
It is an option.
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could put an intelligent thought or two together and defend the “crazy idea” (cuz that’s all it is) that humans are separate from nature. Those who understand and agree are forever too afraid or cowardly to speak up (or write up) even if this irrational misconception is a central cause of our decline.
What amazing profiles in human courage.
Can’t you find a way to say what needs saying without jeopardizing your relationships?
How can anything be questioned if everyone is too timid to speak up. If you think you’re right, make the argument. Put your thoughts on the table.
You want to be logical and rational but you still want to make an exception for your own little piece of irrational nonsense? Is that it? You really think that’s innocent and harmless?
And yet you wonder why so many see no hope!
We are in desperate need for some courage.
hmmm… i hope they can include, in whatever they are drafting for san juan county, something about protecting the watersheds and forested wetlands that also foster diversity and protect the health of the Salish Sea.
Yes, Sadie.
It would be helpful if we re-framed the strategy based on discovered data and empirical evidence which makes clear that we humans are part and parcel of earth’s natural eco-system.
Then, the ommissions you fear become all too obvious and preventable.
Only by way of irrational thought (belief systems) can we create artificial divides between ourselves and the natural world —divides that defy all available competent evidence; divides that give cover for our exploitation (to our own demise if not checked).
Questioning past and present practices of “subjugation” won’t get to the root of the irrational dilemma.
That’s what modern movements attempt in order to now appear environmentally friendly; they even gloat over how progressive they are—all while the decline is daily further entrenched; we’re on track for a 4% global temp increase—havoc and hell on tap!
Solution: embrace technology to mitigate, re-education for adults and “qualified” education for the young so as to interrupt the irrational ideations forming the destructive beliefs that serve as the bases for defining “nature” as a separate thing.
E.g., we need to understand that destroying wetlands today is tantamount to cutting off the arms of our children tomorrow.
What we do to the natural environment we do to oursleves—to be more plainly understood in the future, but scientifically clear today.
Progress or the Environment- it’s a false choice!