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helen99"The sad reality is that we are in danger of perishing from our own stupidity and lack of personal responsibility to life. If we become extinct because of factors beyond our control, then we can at least die with pride in ourselves, but to create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claims to consciousness and morality.
There is too much contemporary evidence of ecological disaster which appals me, and it should frighten you too. Our consumptive lifestyle has led us to the very brink of annihilation. We have expanded our right to live on the earth to an entitlement to conquer the earth, yet "conquerors" of nature always lose. To accumulate wealth, power, or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
What we have done, we can undo. There is no longer time to waste nor any need to accumulate more evidence of disasters; The time for action is here."
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"A person of courage today is a person of peace. The courage we need is to refuse authority and to accept only personally responsible decisions. LIke war, growth at any cost is an outmoded and discredited concept. It is our lives which are being laid to waste. What is worse, it is our children's world which is being destroyed. It is therefore our only possible decision to withhold all support for destructive systems, and to cease to invest our lives in our own annihilation.
The Prime Directive of Permaculture.
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existance and that of our children.
Make it now.
Most thinking people would agree that we have arrived at final and irrevocable decisions that will abolish or sustain life on this earth. We can either ignore the madness of uncontrolled industrial growth and defence spending that is, in small bites or large catastrophes, eroding life forms every day, or take the path to life and survival."
There is too much contemporary evidence of ecological disaster which appals me, and it should frighten you too. Our consumptive lifestyle has led us to the very brink of annihilation. We have expanded our right to live on the earth to an entitlement to conquer the earth, yet "conquerors" of nature always lose. To accumulate wealth, power, or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.
What we have done, we can undo. There is no longer time to waste nor any need to accumulate more evidence of disasters; The time for action is here."
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"A person of courage today is a person of peace. The courage we need is to refuse authority and to accept only personally responsible decisions. LIke war, growth at any cost is an outmoded and discredited concept. It is our lives which are being laid to waste. What is worse, it is our children's world which is being destroyed. It is therefore our only possible decision to withhold all support for destructive systems, and to cease to invest our lives in our own annihilation.
The Prime Directive of Permaculture.
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existance and that of our children.
Make it now.
Most thinking people would agree that we have arrived at final and irrevocable decisions that will abolish or sustain life on this earth. We can either ignore the madness of uncontrolled industrial growth and defence spending that is, in small bites or large catastrophes, eroding life forms every day, or take the path to life and survival."