Make Good Choices…it isn’t rocket science.
“Dance of Life…The Nest”
My heart seems to be on the ground these days. Humans are trashing the planet, creating desertification through logging, mining, fracking, drilling, clearing, burning and developments as well as polluting and the dumping of toxic waste. Few seem willing to think small and simple. Wildlife is disappearing and treated with little respect for their homes, habitat and life. Garbage is choking the lands and waters and used masks litter the sidewalks.
Wolves on a beach nearby…
Move over, we're in charge!...but we aren't. Disease, storms, flooding, fires drought, slides, earthquakes and infestations are a result of this so called "civilization" out of control, being run by madmen who think they are in control...people with little empathy for other life or a healthy vision for future generations, most of them with hardened hearts and massive accumulated wealth. It is time to divest of savings in banks that support destructive and polluting industries.
In town recently, I listened to the frogs singing, wondering where their song was coming from...a puddle under a trailer surrounded by beer cans and discarded junk, a puddle that will dry up when the summer heat burns down on all but for now they are singing their mating song and doing what they were meant to do. A little bird was hopping around looking for seeds on the ground but a cat was lurking nearby...someone's pet, out hunting, doing what it does.
I heard an owl calling up on the ridge overlooking the town in some of the last evergreen forest left in the town but I have been told that it has been sold to developers. There's an osprey nest and a baby eagle calling from up there as well as a woodpecker drumming on the evergreen trees there.
I saw a creek that had supported salmon but had been cleared of all protective green around it and pools had been filled with discarded materials. A bear was seen there once. What will become of the wild??
Fish farms litter and pollute the coast, creating viruses that are killing wild fish and possibly getting into humans. Who knows where any barriers between birds, fish, animals and humans break down allowing viruses to become contagious. Pets could become carriers and try to control that one!
I spoke with a woman who owns a ranch that she was so proud of in establishing a natural place and it sounded good until she mentioned the cougar that was shot because it had eaten a few of the thousands of sheep there.
B.C. has killed more that 700 wolves in the past two years by trapping and radio-collaring single wolves that would then lead government hired shooters in helicopters to the pack to eliminate them all.
(NOTE: I am not feeding this wolf, she came up to sniff my hand and get to know me. We walked together for hours on the beach.)
There is a battle here for old growth forests, ongoing for over 35 years now. It is now down to 1% left of an entire ecosystem that once thrived here on the coast. Second growth is being mowed down extensively leaving massive clearcuts on mountainsides. It seems a mute point to have to fight for the last 1% of the old growth forest while everything else is gone.
The tipping point is being reached if people haven't noticed. It doesn't take a young girl like Greta Thurnberg to define what is taking place when it is glaringly obvious...live or oblivion?....that is the choice we must make...short term indulgence or a future?
...And it may not even be a choice any longer.
You can email the premier of B.C., John Horgan at premier@gov.bc.ca at any time. Thank you.
This post reminded me of Bob Dylan's - A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall.
"I saw a creek that had supported salmon, but had been cleared of all protective green,
I saw an owl..."
Beautifully put. I read with music in my head.
Frogs in puddles. Wolves on the beach.
I'm voting for wolves in the next election.
Thank you, Susanne....Mary is getting cataract surgery, how is that going for you?