The Price of Extinction

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The biggest headline of the year—perhaps the biggest of the millennium went largely unnoticed by the press in November 2010.  Perhaps they didn’t understand the gravity of the news.  Perhaps they felt it was too scary, too controversial or too complex for the public to understand. Perhaps Lindsey Lohan or Charlie Sheen’s antics they deemed a more important story. Whatever the reason, the headline faded away without fanfare. What didn’t fade away was imminent peril as sure as a comet hurling to earth.
The biggest headline of the year—perhaps the biggest of the millennium went largely unnoticed by the press in November 2010.  Perhaps they didn’t understand the gravity of the news.  Perhaps they felt it was too scary, too controversial or too complex for the public to understand. Perhaps Lindsey Lohan or Charlie Sheen’s antics they deemed a more important story. Whatever the reason, the headline faded away without fanfare. What didn’t fade away was imminent peril as sure as a comet hurling to earth.
What can be done? Can anything help at this point? Yes, it will take tough decisions…the ones that involve sharing our planet with all the other species rather than hoarding it for ourselves and thus, restoring balance. These are decisions that most of our politicians, even the forward thinking ones, don’t want to make… ones that many of us don’t want to make either. It is our job to let our leaders know the time to act is not in twenty years, not in ten, not after the election, but today. Budgets, taxes and jobs won’t matter if there’s no clean water to drink, if there’s no food to eat, or no air to breathe.
What can be done? Can anything help at this point? Yes, it will take tough decisions…the ones that involve sharing our planet with all the other species rather than hoarding it for ourselves and thus, restoring balance. These are decisions that most of our politicians, even the forward thinking ones, don’t want to make… ones that many of us don’t want to make either. It is our job to let our leaders know the time to act is not in twenty years, not in ten, not after the election, but today. Budgets, taxes and jobs won’t matter if there’s no clean water to drink, if there’s no food to eat, or no air to breathe.
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''Only after the last tree has been cut down.   
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''Only after the last tree has been cut down.<br>  
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Only after the last river has been poisoned.   
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Only after the last river has been poisoned.<br>  
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Only after the last fish has been caught.  
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Only after the last fish has been caught.<br>
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Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.''
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Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.''<br>
-  Cree Indian Prophecy
-  Cree Indian Prophecy

Revision as of 17:10, 30 April 2011

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