Do you know something I don't?
Can you survive without clean water and clean air ?
Do you know that environmental ethics TRANSCEND political parties, religious denomination and race?
Are you tired of our country dividing itself along lines no one can see?
Are you tired of political debate and nonsense filling our airwaves and brains?
Or are you ready to argue more, to the last breath?
Can you please grow the fuck up and stop asking for our president's birth certificate? Yes, I hated GWB, but I never brought up the fact that his family did business with the Nazis. Don't believe me? Bushs and Nazis you say? Google 1942, Trading with the Enemy Act, and Brown Brother's/Harriman, you might be disappointed with the principle of each. But can you please look past our current president's skin and see that he is trying to help?
Can we please demand that our politicians take action and be accountable for their actions? I learned that in kindergarten, I think they need a refresher.
Are you tired of watching our sons and daughters coming home in black plastic bags?
Are you tired of both sides of the aisle blaming the each other for mistakes, or failings of moral conscious, and then doing the same damn thing and saying it's different?
Or do you like listening to this bullshit and calling it politics?
Do you think if we keep dividing ourselves, that this won't end in bloodshed?
Have you forgotten the lessons of 1861? Are you willing to let history repeat?
Do you really think that this way of life can continue?
Do you really think that we aren't killing this planet? Do you think about, I mean really think, what happens to that bottled water, plastic bag, or any of the thousands of pieces of trash and micro trash that are produced by our consumerist culture?
I know what happens to them, and unfortunately, so will our great grandchildren.
Have you ever read the Bible or the Torah or the Qu'ran and realized that the God of Abraham and Moses demands us to act as stewards for the Earth and for all of his creation?
Do you know what God says he will do if we fail? It is not forgiveness he offers but destruction.
Have you ever looked out on a group of people, knowing none, and realized the beauty of the ONE HUMAN FAMILY? That any judgment you pass is internal, of your own creation, derived from your own hang-ups.
Are you tired of argument for the sake of it? Or are you ready to argue more without thinking about compromise?
Do you know why Teddy Roosevelt was a great man? Do you know why he is immortalized at Mt. Rushmore? Did you know he helped create the national parks system, the greatest example of democracy in action in the world?
Do you know what happens to your food before you eat it? Do you think about the cows, chickens and other souls we have dominated to make our food? It's not their sacrifice I deplore, it is our own wastefulness and our treatment of them before they die. You are what you eat, so what are we?
Do you fear, as I do, having to answer to your children and grandchildren why bats were important or unique, or why people looked at coral reefs? Why the Great White Bear of the North was allow to die out? Or what trees were and why we needed them to be whole?
Did you ever think that this is not our planet, and to believe so is selfish, short sighted and beyond reproach,
Do you know this is actually our children's planet? We've borrowed from them and we will have to give it back.
Do you want to give them a wasteland, full of trash, toxic chemicals and lost dreams?
Have you ever seen a wasteland? If not, go to a landfill and marvel at our great society and its trash.
To be honest, I don't care if you believe in Global Warming or not. Frankly, I am tired of people using it as a way to determine one's political leaning and sentiments.
Even if it is not happening, is it such a bad idea to look for other energy sources? Or is it too hard to see that the thick black exhaust of a semi rolling down the highway isn't good to breath?
Did you know that London Fog was not fog but smog? Have you ever not been able to breath, because the air was so polluted or picked and coughed black bits from your lungs and nose after walking around a polluted city?
Have you realized that this little outpost called Earth is the only one we have and if we don't protect and cherish it, we're dead? Do you think Science or God can save us from ourselves?
Did you know the planet won't die? Planets are bigger and better than that. Don't you think Gaia will shake us off like a flea when she is tired of our abuse? Don't believe me? One word, Katrina.
Are you tired of fossil fuels? Have you ever thought that if only we could stop buying foreign oil we could pull out of the middle east and leave those countries in the dust, where we found them?
Did you know that dependence on foreign oil is a national security liability?
Don't believe me? Then ask why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. They woke a sleeping giant, (who had cut off their oil in previous years in trade embargoes).
Really though, I need to know.
Do you know something I don't, about living without clean air or clean water?
Do you want to do something about all this?
Or are you going to let the greatest moment our generation has to effect this planet slip past?
For those who disagree, or feel we can keep arguing and pushing this to the side, know just this:
How far do you think we can be pushed before we hit back?
Remember, we were born of the same spirit, raised to believe in fighting to our last sinew for our rights and our world. We love peace and deplore war, and want our country to be better and by proxy, Our World, but do not see this as weakness or passivity, instead, know it as strength.
If you do not believe me, then you will be in the fire instead of watching it burn.
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