Action Day Blog - Earth Pirates

"If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day." - Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

When it comes to Mother Earth....we are all her Pirates: raping, pillaging, looting and polluting. There are innumerable damages that we have caused and must very soon put right - or suffer the consequences. Sometimes the damage seems so vast, it feels hopeless.


Hopelessness is not the goal here. In fact, precisely three times in as many days I have encountered a spark of hope by the means of complete strangers. Each spark re-kindled the memory that humankind can be exactly that - kind. Today I met a kindred spirit who reminded me that there are more and more people who care. There are so many issues that face us today, as we urgently scramble to undo what we have desecrated. What can I say that has not been said a thousand times today? All I know is that all of us know, whether through admittance or denial, that we must change our ways...after all, isn't the only constant change? If we all admit to what we know deeply to be right, then we can set and example for our children, who can then turn our world around into a world living in harmony. I know it is possible. Anything is.

" And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, patient instead of hasty, cheerful instead of surly and above all, how to keep their minds open and free and curious... then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window." - Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass.