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Show THE ZEPHYR/JUNE-JULY 2007 Everywhere on the planet, bees are hard at work making it possible for you to live and coke. Ecological insanity folks. bees disappear, well according to Albert Einstein who was considered somewhat smarter a statement. “Simple,” ] answered. “Earthworms can live on the planet without people. We cannot live on the planet without earthworms thus from an ecological point of view, enjoy life. We hold on to our place on this planet by only a toehold. If anything happens to the grass family, we are screwed. If the earthworms disappear, we are in big trouble. If the Last week a reporter called to ask me if I had really said that earth worms are more important than people. ] answered that yes I had. He then asked how I could justify such than most of us, we will have only four years. Just enough time to get a college degree to discover that everything you learned is relatively useless when sitting on the doorstep of global ecological annihilation. earthworms are more important than people.” He said that I was insane for suggesting such a ridiculous idea when people were made in the image of God, and earthworms were not. We are cutting down the forest and plundering the oceans of life. We are polluting the What we have here of course is a failure to communicate between two radically different world views. His which is anthropocentric and sees reality as human centred and mine which is biocentric and sees reality as including all species equally working in interdependence. He sees us as divine and better than all the other species and I see us as a bunch of arrogant primates out of control. But that’s my two cents worth for Earth Day 2007. Consider the humble honey bee and remember that the little black and yellow insect you see flitting busily from flower to flower is all that stands between us and our demise as a species on this planet. We better see to it that they don’t disappear. soil, the air and the water and we are rapidly running out of fresh water to drink. Only corporations like Coke and Pepsi have figured out that water is more valuable than gold. That is why they are bottling it in plastic bottles and selling it. This week I saw a bottle of water in my hotel room that I could have drunk for only $4. Unless over-population is addressed, there is absolutely no way of slowing down global greenhouse gas emissions. But how do you do that within the context of economic systems that require larger and larger numbers to perform the essential task of consuming products? www.seashepherd.org BLACKHAT HUMANE SOCIETY Unbelievable. That means that water is now being sold for more than the equivalent amount of gasoline. I hope that I’m not the only one who thinks this is insanity. Now for Al Gore’s really inconvenient truth. In his film he does not mention once that the meat and dairy industry that produces the bacon, the steaks, the chicken wings and the milk is a larger contributor to greenhouse gas emissions than the automobile industry. You see, Al may drive a Prius but he likes his burgers. This is why the big organizations like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club will not say a thing about the meat industry. Last year I saw Greenpeacers sitting down for a baked fish meal onboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza while engaged in a campaign to oppose over-fishing. When we pointed out that our Sea Shepherd ships serve only vegan meals, the Greenpeace cook replied, “that’s just silly.” We see what we want to see and we rationalize everything else. ; The oceans have been plundered to the point that 90% of the fish have been removed from their eco-systems and at this very moment there is over 65,000 miles of long lines set in the Pacific Ocean alone and there are tens of thousands of fishing vessels scouring the seas in a rapacious quest to scoop up everything that swims or crawls. Serving the Navajo Nation PO Box 2716 Window Rock, AZ 86515 928.337.2828 email: ambrwifS1@yahoo.com Visit the Navajo Nation, enjoy the scenery & take home a pet with you BLACKHAT HUMANE SOCIETY takes in dogs, cats [even sheep & horses) and fosters them in loving homes until they are ready to be adopted. All animals are in good health, current on vaccinations and are spayed/neutered....100% of donations go to the animals---spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, food... Check out our website: www.rezdog.petfinder.org This is ecological insanity. The largest marine predator on the planet right now is the cow. More than half the fish taken from the sea is rendered into fish meal and fed to domestic livestock. Puffins are starving in the North sea to feed sand eels to chickens in Denmark. Sheep and pigs have SUPPORT ZEPHYR The businesses and individuals are the people who keep PLEASE let them know you AND SHOP replaced the shark and the sea lion as the dominant predators in the ocean and domestic _ house cats are eating more fish than all the world’s seals combined. We are extracting some fifty to sixty fish from the sea to raise one farm raised salmon. This is ecological insanity. Yet the demand for shark fin is rising in China. Ignorant people still want to wear fur coats. In America, we order fries, a cheeseburger and a “diet” RIVERSIDE PLUMBING 4 & HEATING “I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals — and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I ~ have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. ADVERTISERS who advertise in The Zephyr this publication alive. appreciate their support. THERE! 366 N. 500 _ Ww. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future pros- perity, I will be forever happy.” | feel like | share a sacred bond with CAPTAIN PAUL... We both wage a neverending war against polluted water. 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