"Eaarth": Earth is over

This is the word that needs to be broadcast to a wider audience.

The natural world cannot be manipulated to fulfill our needs. We have been doing just that for the past century. Before the advances of modern industry and technology man was grateful for Earth’s bounty and based their lives around harvesting what they needed to survive, protecting future supplies and being grateful for having what we needed to sustain our lives.

The world of commerce is a necessary evil but the monster has become more powerful than our own common sense.

If each man, woman and child would return to the days of only taking what they NEED instead of what marketing tells us we need (perception)the world would be in far better shape than it is right now.

There is not going to be a world movement for humanity to save itself. That would create a disaster in the world of economics for the corporate and government entities. The only way to change anything is one person at a time.

I started my life in a poor immigrant family in SW Saskatchewan where we learned to sustain ourselves on what we could produce on our farm. We traded goods with our neighbours, helped each other with any work that needed to be done and generally lived a life that did not impact the world around us. My parents managed to raise 7 children who are now senior citizens and have been contributing memebers of society.

It can be done. I have spent the last few years researching how that would work and have all kinds of plans and ideas. Sadly I have not been able to get any support from media, corporations or government sources.

We are so lucky to be alive in this time and place and nobody appreciates it. Everybody is in a hurry to get ‘somewhere as easily and fast as they can. Everybody is trying to keep up with the ‘jones’.

There is a slow movement going with regarding our consumption of food. What we need a to slow down our lives – period. Stop and smell the roses, take the time to grow your own food, take the time to talk to the people in your neighbourhood,take the time to live each day with the gratefulness that man was born with.

Nobody listens – nobody cares. I will keep trying. I think we can still start a culture that is closer to nature. All we have to do is tap the resources of our elders. They already know how to live in peace with Mother Earth.

No – I’m not a nut – I’m a 53 year old mother and grandmother who has watched the quality of life deteriorate for my children instead of improve as it did for my generation.

I don’t think you come across as a ‘nut’. But I can see why you might think that. After all, there was a time when people who recycled were ‘nuts’ and people who drove hybrids were ‘nuts’ and people who cared about pollution were ‘nuts’.

Every major social movement is started by a group of ‘nuts’ who are determined to go against the mainstream. Often, this mainstream is led by a group of powerful encumbants with a vested interest and the money to pay for public relations.

It’s not easy. Unfortunately, it often takes a shock to the system before the masses can be motivated to change.