We Better Save The Earth … Or Nothing Else Matters

Yes, the earth has been here for many millions of years. She’ll still be here if or when the Last Human goes the way of the dinosaur … a fact of life given enough time, but hopefully not in our lifetimes. By “saving earth” I mean minimal resources to sustain human life. You know, things like fertile soil not depleted of all life-giving minerals, fish in the waters, unpolluted air, a little oil to make life easier …. and so on.

So, we have this Newbie, either a Brit or Scot, who posted yesterday in the “Google” thread, and she said this;

“I am a great fan of our eminent environmental lawyer Polly Higgins who is pushing to bring in a law that protects the environment…she calls it ecocide and she is worth checking out.”

Curious fellow that I am, I did check it out. Hence, this post.

I often mock my beloved seester for being a tree-hugging save-the-whale libtard. But, the fact of the matter is this; I too love trees, whales, and the Earth. I just don’t like my seester’s SOLUTIONS.

God knows I love her … but she’s a hypocrite. Her hubby drives a ginormous gas guzzling Chrysler pickup. They’ll spend literally hundreds of dollars in gas and expenses taking their fucking Cocktoo on a 300 mile round trip somewhere in New York state every time the batshit stupid bird eats some wires or other toxic shit, which happens at least two or three times a year. She loves trees but has more than a few very expensive, rare, and exotic woods in her home. I’m talking Teak and Brazilian Rosewood, which is now actually illegal to buy. There’s more, but you get the point. I just don’t like hypocrites, even if they are family members.

But, I learned from my parents to love the earth. They PRACTICE earth-love. I have already shared their extreme recycling, re-using, and not-using of earth’s resources. They’re not perfect, but they try real hard to be. The only American magazine they ever subscribed to was National Geographic. And they eventually cancelled it, not because they didn’t enjoy it, but it broke their little hearts to see page after page of mass destruction brought to them in glossy full-page Technicolor; the decimation of forests, the destruction of the Amazon, the extinction of plant, fish, and wildlife. We’re destroying the only home we humans have, and it became too much for them to even look at.

It pains me to think that it took millions of years for oil to form, and that’s it’s almost half gone in a mere 100 years. It pains me to see giant earth-movers scoop up tons of earth in one scoop, raping and scaring and stripping the earth of everything of value. The Maf is quite simple. At the current rate of consumption in 100 years there will be only one element left on earth; Carbon, courtesy of a few billion rotting human carcasses.

OK, maybe that last sentence was a tad bit extreme. Maybe. But, if you deny that the needs and wants of 7 billion human souls are exacting a terrible scourge upon earth, then you are just a Blind-As-A-Bat-Dumbass. So solly.

Humanity has a few questions to answer;

—-1) Will we even acknowledge that the consumption of FINITE resources cannot continue for much longer? Again, it’s really a most basic math question.

—2) Is the problem even fixable? Or, do we just merrily stroll along until The End appears? Will we delude ourselves into a Star Trek mentality; that humanity will escape to the stars? Or, more pertinently, that endless improvement in technology will provide all solutions to all problems … all of us will have a fucking Replicator to feed us a ham sammich!

—3) If we can fix it, do we have the WILL to fix it?

———- Do we have the political will? Can politicians stop pandering and actually lead? Can they stop being bought off? If certain countries can’t or won’t comply, can they be forced at the point of a gun? Is a nation willing to imprison or fine its own non-compliant citizens? Does any government have the balls to fine or terminate a violating corporation.

———- Do we have the economic will? Do people have the will to fix it if it means THEIR job will be eliminated? Do people have the will to fix it if it means an INCREASE in living costs, whether that be via higher taxes, increased unit costs and fewer choices?

———- Do we have the spiritual will? Is mankind too selfish, greedy, etc. to ever fix the problem, and the only reason we haven’t stripped the entire Earth bare previously is because ….. we couldn’t?

—4) WHO should fix it? Government? Public and / or private corporations? Grassroots people? Mostly Big Nations with Big Money and Big Resources? Bill Gates? Some combination of all? Do we realize that if Everybody waits for Somebody, then only Nobody will do it?

–5) Once all the above are answered, then the $64,000 question is; HOW do we fix it?

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And, so, Question 5, brings me to the video below from Polly Higgins.

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I know most of you lazy shits won’t watch it, so here is the pertinent quote starting @1:05;

“Currently our laws are governed primarily by Property Laws. And this is really what we have to change … to move away from Property Laws to Trusteeship Laws. So, rather than “I OWN” to “I OWE”. I owe a duty of care to this planet. And what that means in real terms is recognizing that in truth we do not have ownership over the soils and the seas and the trees. We only have ownership over that which we create, that which we build. But the Earth itself, the land itself, we do not have ownership over it. We created that idea. We have created contracts … on a piece of paper … an artificial creation.”

I BELIEVE THIS IDEA HAS SOME MERIT!! In an ideal world it would work!

I can hear it already.————-  “Communist!! Nazi!! Fuckwad!! ANTI-CONSTITUTION!!! Dumbass! Blow me!! Worst post ever, and that’s saying something. Waste of time!! Move over bb, the new Village Idiot has arrived!!”

Once you get that out of your system, perhaps you can agree to a reasonable basic premise; mankind has arrived to this point COLLECTIVELY —- communism, fascism, capitalism, dictators, kings and queens, democracy, republics, monarchy, theocracy, corporatism, Hayek & Keynes ——- all had a place at some table, some where, some time and brought us here. That is what is known as a fact.

“Oh, but capitalism was never really fully implemented!! It had too many enemies! Too many obstacles! Politicians and lawyers and bankers fucked it up! Give us another chance to prove once and for all that Capitalism is the best system ever devised by mankind! It’s even in the Bible!”

Perhaps. But it sounds like an excuse to me. We’ve tried that, done that. How many times shall we continue to try the same thing? Does it make sense to believe that the systems and institutions and beliefs that got us into this mess are the very same systems and institutions and beliefs that now have The Solution?  Surely, you know the standard definition of “insanity”! Is a “new and improved” version of the same thing the answer? Or, is it just putting lipstick on a pig? 

I don’t know if “Trusteeship Law” is the answer to save the earth. But what if it IS? Shouldn’t you be selling you house this spring?

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Now the last person who should be giving me any shit about this is that Buffalo Humper, Chief llpoh. His Injun kinfolk had pretty much exactly the same beliefs. Hopefully, he hasn’t forgotten his roots.

“One does not sell the land people walk on.” –Crazy Horse

“What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?” –Massasoit

“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” –– Indian Proverb

“We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?” -Sealth

“My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away” –Black Hawk

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