What is the best way to celebrate a holiday that celebrates death, colonialism and the runaway consumerism of western culture?
The 8th principle of Deep Ecology tells us once we recognize there are problems we have an obligation directly or indirectly to participate in the attempt to implement the necessary changes. I interpret this as a need to gain or share the practical skills necessary to win. It is not enough to ask politicians and corporations to destroy less wilderness. We need to preserve it all, to recreate lost habitats and reintroduce extirpated predators. We need to stop and reverse the poisoning of our air, water and soil, as well as the modification of life’s genetic code. Don’t like Nazi’s? learn how to fight them, Feel passionate about whaling or the destruction of ocean life? Why aren’t you sailing the high seas or helping fund those who do? Habitat Protection? Likes and shares are not enough. We need to develop our skills and activist tool box so we can realize victory for ourselves, the ecosystem and all life on this planet.