World-Ecology Rant
There is a tribe of people in the mountains of central south america whos central beliefs are based on the trees around them and mountain on which they live. Their belief is that the specific jungle they live amidst is the embassador for the entire earth, and they, the tribe, are the protectors and keepers of it. They view it as a spiritual dwelling, nourishing it, maintaining it, or at best, leaving it alone. If these trees are allowed to grow and prosper, so the rest of the trees of the planet will continue to release oxygen into the air. If the soil beneath their feet is respected, so the soil spread across the continents will continue to produce and provide. If the animals in their habitat are allowed to be safe, breed, and be happy, likewise the many species of water, land and sky will do so as well.They are now facing a crisis as militants, who are spreading across the land during political unrest, are starting to move towards and into their precious habitat. They are fighting to keep them away, for fear that if their jungle is destroyed, the same fate is near for our planets.
I don't believe that the lifestyle of this tribe is just a cultural interest, but a misson we need to fully support and live by. The landscape in which we live, the trees around us, the ground below us, the animals that roam beside us, they are unfathomably precious. I say unfathomable because our world is not understanding their importance even as the disaster and erosion intensifies, it is skipped over and looked through. Now, more than ever before in exsistance, we need to be loving our earthly habitat, even the small areas around us; because there are those coming in who will destroy and dismember and though it may not be an immediate occurance, it will mean the destruction of our planet sooner rather than later. At this point in the game where now the human death toll has risen because of our heightened temperatures and changing ecosystem, there needs to be absolutely no shame in tree-hugging or whatever simple term it may be called. Serious action has been called upon for years by green parties and scientists, but only now is the general public starting to wake up. It is not a time for too slow a pace when the earth is already crumbling in our hands.
posted by Unknown @ 1:21 AM
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