by Don & Margaret Wiltshire
The planet would do wonderfully well without us. When we talk about saving the planet; we are really talking about saving us. We are destroying what we need to survive, air, water, food.
The wolf would limit numbers of grass eaters and the prairies would grow grass to maturity. The aquifers would remain and feed moisture to those grasses. The grasses would shelter seedling trees. The air would have more oxygen, less erosion.
We have been destroying it all. That’s what we are good at.
We destroy species that help us live and could help us live.
Over grazing destroys grasslands. It is natural for a wolf to help the grasslands as it lives to survive. It does the earth a service. We don’t.
We live to survive. We have good brains to help us. Yet we often don’t use them well. Our brains are compromised by our egos and our greed.
Every year we learn more about the intelligence of animals and plants. For centuries we have been too ego centered to acknowledge their intelligence. We live in a constant state of denial.
Chief Seattle’s speech on land is one of the greatest documents in our recorded history. Politely, he told us how we are destroying ourselves. He told us how we could save ourselves. In turn, Western Civilization just took advantage of him.
Some think that on the close horizon there is the end of Western Civilization. If that is the case, some will survive who want to do it all over again with the same ego-greed orientation. They, of course, will save their weapons.
Others are raising their consciousness. They know we belong to the earth, we don’t own it. The earth’s crust is the EARTH’s crust. The aquifers belong to the earth and no man can own them. The grasslands belong to all, not just the greedy.
To raise your consciousness you don’t have to read a book, belong to a group, join a political party. All you have to do is breathe deeply. Use your senses. See the truth before you. Listen less to the ego voice in your head and more to what is around you. Consciousness is awareness.
Many indigenous people have told us we live in a dream world. We are not conscious. We want things to be as we want them to be. Usually because of our own greed; that nagging sense of being empty, alone and fearful.
Being conscious one can discover they are all they need to be, they are never alone and their needs are truly few. Conscious-people don’t need ego tasks like proving identity and personal value. They are in tune with nature, wholly part of the universe.
However, food, shelter, air and water needs to be available. It needs to be good.
Using science we have made some poor choices in the past. Pesticides continue to handicap us worldwide. They hurt plants, animals and humans. Still we continue using them.
Now environmental science tells us we are in our 11th hour, in the last few minutes of the last hour, historically speaking. They want us to make it, to survive. They are speaking to us just as Chief Seattle did years ago. Will we listen?
Many don’t want to listen. They think economics is the bigger problem. Economics is nowhere without nature and its resources.
We are nowhere without nature and its resources. Living in a box that’s gold lined, diamond studded and dollar padded will kill you if you don’t have good water, food and air. Not to mention how fast you’d get bored!
We have the ability to remember the past and look to the future. They say that separates us from animals and plants. I have my doubts. Whatever the case, they plan for the future better then we do.
Take a deep breath, live and let live.
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