Posts Tagged ‘ ecocide ’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) formally seconded the presidential nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.
Source: Ocasio-Cortez seconds Sanders nomination at convention | TheHill
DOROTHEA LANGE, BERRYESSA VALLEY, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, 1956, GELATIN SILVER PRINT, PRINTED 1965, 11 1/8″ × 11 1/2″. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK. PURCHASE.
Rebecca Solnit studies Dorothea Lange’s 1956 photograph ‘Berryessa Valley, Napa County, California.’
The landscape of Haida Gwaii has been profoundly shaped by commercial logging. Here, abandoned logging equipment is partially obscured by new growth. Photo by Flickr user popejon2, 2009.
Ecoanxiety about the Anthropocene is on the rise. But Indigenous communities have been facing the devastation of environmental change for centuries.
Source: For the Indigenous Haida community, ecoanxiety is nothing new
This is Our Declaration of International Non-Violent Rebellion Against the World’s Governments for Criminal Inaction on the Ecological Crisis.
Mr. Trump has crossed the line. He has committed a grave criminal act. I will not cross that line.
Mr. Trump is a criminal. Mr. Trump is committing ecocide which is murder times the number of living beings on the planet. There is no greater crime possible and his actions will not be tolerated.
Mr. Trump cannot prevent me, can not prevent any one of us individually from adhering to the Paris Climate Accords. He cannot because I will not / we will not commit ecocide. Because I will not / we will not murder the Mother.
If he burns coal, we will not use it. If he releases carbon, we will rebury it in the earth. If he poisons, we will transform it to nectar. We will not steal from the future. We will not covet the resources that belong to all beings.
We will protect the earth, we will protect the future.
When I am lost or confused without knowing what to do, I will plant trees and like the true elders on this planet we will listen to the spirits, we will pray and do ceremony and we will stand with water.
I have to repeat this. We will not commit ecocide. We will not murder the Mother. There will be a future for all beings. The earth will be protected and restored. Mitakuye oyasin – Deena Metzger
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