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Green Candidates for Brighton, Kemptown, Constituency, Brighton
Queens Park, Moulsecoomb, Bevendean,Woodingdean, Rottingdean, Saltdean Telscombe
Cliffs, Ovingdean, Peacehaven
WHATEVER BEFALLS THE EARTH BEFALLS THE
SONS OF THE EARTH.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_disaster
YOU WILL BE HEARING MORE FROM ME ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
http://www.greenenergychoice.com/green-guide/fossil-fuels.html
GREEN ISSUES
FOSSIL FUELS ARE DESTROYING THE
ENVIRONMENT AS YOU READ THIS
I HAVE BEEN CALLED HARD CORE OVER GREEN
ISSUES AND IT’S TRUE I DON’T PUSSFOOT AROUND
MOST
PEOPLE THINK BEING GREEN IS SAVING TIN CARDS & BOTTLES THEN CLOSING YOUR
EYES THAT’S ALLRIGHT I HAVE SAVED THE PLANET
I do not have children. So I have no
axe to grind but if in 50 years time
your children or grandchildren will have to face an environmental disaster are YOU
going to do anything now.
Read this book make up your own mind.
READ THIS BEING GREEN
AND CARING FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT COMES FROM THE HEART
ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED.
WHATEVER BEFALLS THE EARTH BEFALLS THE SONS OF THE EARTH.
THE GREAT CHIEF in
How can you buy or
sell the sky – the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. Yet we do not
own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them
from us? We will decide in our time. Every part of this earth is sacred to my
people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark
woods, every clearing, and every humming insect is holy in the memory and
experience of my people.
We know that the white
man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the
next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land
whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has
conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father’s graves and his children’s
birthright is forgotten. The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the Redman.
But perhaps it is because the Redman is a savage and does not understand.
There is no quiet
place in the white man’s cities. No place to listen to the leaves of spring or
the rustle of insect wings. But perhaps because I am a savage and do not
understand – the clatter only seems to insult the ears. And what is there to
life if a man cannot hear the lovely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments
of the frogs around a pond at night? The Indian prefers the soft sound of the
wind itself cleansed by a mid-day rain, or scented by a pinõn pine: The air is
precious to the Redman. For all things share the same breath – the beasts, the
trees, and the man. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes.
Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.
If I decide to accept,
I will make one condition. The white man must treat the beasts of this land as
his brothers. I am a savage and I do not understand any other way. I have seen
thousands of rotting buffaloes on the prairie left by the white man who shot them
from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron
horse can be more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from
great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast also happens to
the man.
All things are
connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Our children have seen their fathers humbled in defeat. Our
warriors have felt shame. And after defeat they turn their days in idleness and
contaminate their bodies with sweet food and strong drink. It matters little
where we pass the rest of our days – they are not many. A few more hours, a few
more winters, and none of the children of the great tribes that once lived on
this earth, or that roamed in small bands in the woods will remain to mourn the
graves of the people once as powerful and hopeful as yours.
One thing we know that
the white man may one day discover. Our God is the same God. You may think that
you own him as you wish to own our land, but you cannot. He is the Body of man,
and his compassion is equal for the Redman and the white. This earth is
precious to him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. The
whites, too, shall pass – perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to
contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. When
the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses all tamed, the secret corners
of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills
blotted by the talking wires, where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle?
Gone. And what is it to say goodbye to the swift and the hunt? The end of
living and the beginning of survival.
We might understand if
we knew what it was the white man dreams, what hopes he describes to his
children on long winter nights, what visions he burns into their minds, so they
will wish for tomorrow. But we are savages. The white man’s dreams are hidden
from us. And because they are hidden, we will go our own way. If we agree, it
will be to secure your reservation you have promised.
There perhaps we may
live out our brief days as we wish. When the last Redman has vanished from the
earth, and the memory is only the shadow of a cloud passing over the prairie,
these shores and forests will still hold the spirits of my people, for they
love this earth as the newborn loves its mother’s heartbeat. If we sell you our
land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it as we have cared for it. Hold in
your memory the way the land is as you take it. And with all your strength,
with all your might, and with all your heart – preserve it for your children,
and love it as God loves us all. One thing we know – our God is the same. This earth is precious to him. Even
the white man cannot escape the common destiny.
Joe Neilson vote4joe2015@gmail.com
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