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Pacific Rainforest Wildlife Guardians
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We travel through the voids of space on a small, self-contained life vessel, powered by the energy of the stars. It is a marvelous ship of life, probably one of the most wondrous and rare in the universe. Yet in our human-centered ignorance and arrogance we have tried to create a different world, to create an existence separate from our fellow passengers, to confine the other species that share the vessel with us to smaller and smaller compartments while we command more and more space for our burgeoning numbers and desires
The earth is in danger of becoming a monstrous slave ship sailing on the cosmic tides of the Milky Way. To support our continually expanding population of human passengers we are systematically destroying or enslaving much of the other life of the ship we sail upon. And we have used the fossil sunlight and water discovered in various holds of the ship to support artificial compartments where a relatively small number of us live in amazing luxury. In fact, compared to the majority of the ships passengers most of us in western societies live in these synthetic, unnatural settings like swollen grubs feeding off of the energy-rich micro-environments we have created, all the while spewing forth our resulting disorder and poisonous wastes to contaminate other areas of the vessel.
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The unnatural world we have created here is surely doomed. As the ships stores of fossil fuel and water are depleted, our fungus-like, energy-bloated urban colonies will shrink and wither.
We should seek out those who have demonstrated a wisdom nurtured by close contact with the earth and listen to their words.
-excerpts of Steve Van Matre from: The Earth Speaks
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