important question

an important question
comments and video responses welcome
at any time--weeks, months, or years
after the date of posting

as this is an ongoing conversation

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inspired by derrick jensen's crucial book 'endgame.' see interviews with jensen on redpharmacist's channel:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFJe3FDVMs

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be sure to check out zzz33333's video
"re: Life as Art, Taoism, the Train"
which addresses this question
brilliantly and in depth:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0DIaNpZLg&watch_response

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special shout out
to the bird who started singing
just as i was talking
about an alternative future

love you, man--you rock

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pothila's "Can the Oceans keep up with the Hunt?":
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=u-T-TYowBo4&mode=related&search=

cawrecycles' "Plastics and Marine Debris":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVwuPSLx2Xc

highplainsfilms' "Green Rolling Hills (trailer)":
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ303D5revE

appalachianvoices' "Mountaintop Removal (intro)":
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=rZxVNnFXNpE

williamrichardson's "Call of Life" Facing the Mass Extinction (trailer)":
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOXUza9ZeE

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[markangeloc]

My heart cries for humanity, I try to plant a seed daily with my music with my words to get people to realize what we are doing, yet I feel like nothing I say or do is helping. But I will never give up, because without hope we have nothing. This system needs to end, a new world needs to begin, so maybe everything that is happening is for a reason.

Peace

[pennilesscripple]

it is helping in ways you can't see--that's what the parable of the sower is about

all seeds help. even the ones that land on bare earth add nutrients to the earth, or sprout for a bit and help break up the soil.

i'm thinking you are referencing the gulf tragedy for 'everything is happening for a reason.' i hate that it has to happen this way, and would like to think this will be the last great catastrophe before this culture starts to follow a saner path

thank you for all you do

[markangeloc]

@pennilesscripple Thank you and yes let us hope the this culture removes the veils from their eyes and starts to follow a better path.

Peace, Love and Unity

[pennilesscripple]

i'm very glad to hear that, rippist

(somehow i missed this comment when you posted it)

take care

[pennilesscripple]

love it

actually, that video was inspired by a tree in georgia

so all the credit goes to her

(i miss her)

[dnHooligan]

you inspired my new profile pic.

[TexanCyclist]

A yuong child. As young as can articulate the sentence clearly, while patting the belly of a pregnant woman.

[pennilesscripple]

that way of life is not only possible, it is the way humans lived for most of their existence, and many still do--

the type of greed we see in industrial civilization is not as old as mankind--actually, far from it

according to anthropologists, however, sharing is as old as mankind

see my video "greed" on my home page for my take on this important issue

it will be our downfall only if we decide it will be

thanks for engaging in this conversation, pidner

[pidner]

I agree,if not for greed the way of life that you are talking about would be possible,but as you know greed is as old as mankind and I beleive will be our downfall,what a waste.

[pennilesscripple]

not to mention that it is virtually impossible, even with buckets of money, to "own" healthy land, air, and water, as the toxification of our environment is almost complete