I have long watch the destruction of Mother Earth by way of mining, land clearing, over population etc. And the destruction continues and will not end until it is too late. Mother Earth will destroy us in order to survive and I just hope we don’t destroy too many more species in the meantime. We are running out of water quicker than most realize and yet here in Australia we continue to use drinking water to flush our toilets. It makes me ashamed.

I am an adopted member of the Walbiri tribe of Central Australia. The fact that the Earth is our Mother is the cornerstone of all our beliefs. The Walbiri still protect and nurture their sacred sites and I am confident that the Earth will survive, but as for us, do we really deserve to be here after what we have done to our Mother? It gives me comfort to see my adopted family protect and pay homage to their sacred sites with ancient ceremonies that continue to this day. Having been to many sacred sites has left me with no doubt that Mother Earth is a living feeling being.

I was glad to find that I am not the only one who thinks as I do. I am not afraid but very sad to know that I will see unprecedented levels of destruction in the years ahead. I would very much like to communicate with anyone who shares my views as I feel like mine is a lone voice.

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We humans are way, way beyond a “fly on the camel’s back”. We are already filling parts of the ocean with plastic giving off toxic chemicals and particles of plastic that are literally choking fish and sea birds, and causing the soil of the planet to be laced with various leachate from the plastics. We are causing the temperature of the planet to far faster and further than it would otherwise.

This post, though well-meaning, does not seem particularly well-informed. Humans have managed to extinguish themselves in a number of past environments, as written about in Jared Diamond’s book “Collapse”. In Greenland and in Easter Island, for a number of generations everything went just fine. Yet within 100 years of being at their respective peaks of civilization, they were 100% gone, due to loss of all food sources.

The post here does touch on the inspiring nature of our bond to each other and to all life on the planet. However, the illusion that we are not important enough to inflict major change and damage on the systems of our planet, and in effect “destroy” life as we know it for many of the larger beings on the planet, is very real and has already started in terms of a sudden up-tick in extinctions that has been unheard of for a very long time.

I hope we will take our responsibility, and power, seriously enough to avoid further damage, and to reach our great potential as human beings on this planet.
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