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EARTH & US: Approaching the Iceberg
As the obscenely lavish inauguration parties progress, I'm thinking about some other realities. Did you know that 22 million children in tsunami-devastated regions could have received vaccinations and preventive health care with the $40 million spent on the Bush inauguration? When things go too far out of balance, they will finally tip over.
The peak oil curve
Shaped like an iceberg—
There is much below the surface
On which we live our lives
That we don’t wish to see,
While the great solid steel ship of our society,
So formidable, fortified, thrusts forward,
So seemingly invulnerable, yet easily punctured—
Helpless by its own gigantic hurtling momentum
To respond with reason to the quite visible,
Rapidly approaching crisis choice point—
So we keep the lights burning and the band playing.
Let us cut the engines now.
The iceberg has been sighted.
We do have lifeboats
That look like windmills, gardens, bicycles, solar collectors.
Together, we’ll recover from fossil fuel addiction,
Make amends for all the violence we have wrought
Upon each other and the Earth.
Emulate Cuba. Grow food in the cities.
Travel less, discover village life’s rich texture.
Work for peace.
Rejoice in pure drinking water.
Cathy Holt
"One kind word can warm three winter months." - Japanese Proverb
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Cathy Holt
The Circle of Healing: Deepening Our Connections with Self, Others, and Nature
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