This past summer (2007) my partner and I took our newborn son to the Arctic Ocean, to the Inuvialuit town of Tuktoyaktuk, and gave him a pagan baptism in the Beaufort sea. Chalked it up as "research". 3500 miles of gunning a gas hog across the tundra, from Anchorage to Chicken to Dawson to Inuvik and back. Yowza!
Map!
Made w/ our GPS. It took us 11 days to reach TUK, then we meandered South again. Slowly.
People say we are destroying the environment. I beg to differ: I think we're destroying ourselves, and taking most of the environment with us. Example: Global warming is not the issue. Neither is 'biodiversity loss'. It's how we organize ourselves as a species that's the problem. Is our social reality sustainable? No, and here's why: smoke from a machine, 'development' and habitat loss, these are more the symptoms, the physical manifestations (or Entropy) of a deeper societal process which is to increase productivity and profit, i.e., to increase the concentration of power and energy in the hands of a few individuals - at everyone else's expense. Agree to change that imbalance of power, to modify the current power system and install a true democracy where power is shifted from the wallet back to the ballot, to be shared by all, and you will see a lot less smoke. Unknowingly perhaps, you will be agreeing to a sustainable world made of ecological, human societies - without anthropogenic climate change, without species loss. Without war? Onward thru the BS -- as in belief system.
What?
'We are the environment. There is no distinction.' -David Suzuki
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