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by claire | Feb 16, 2019 | 0 comments

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Death is an important part of life. Standing deadw

Death is an important part of life.
Standing deadwood supports a huge amount of life. A living mature oak, for example, supports over 500 species of life, but a dead or dying tree supports thousands! Leave the dead leaves, branches and old growth. There is a huge range of support for the living, from the dead and dying elements in nature. At least 40% of woodland creatures depend on dead wood at some point in their lives. Intricate relationships exist between many native plants, fungi, insects and other creatures.

There’s huge unrest in the air and the politicia

There’s huge unrest in the air and the politicians are not reading the room. They are way behind the zeitgeist, following and listening to the lowest common denominator, the lowest forms of consciousness. We have to step up for our own survival, never mind our kids who have no future in this suicidal system of constant economic growth on a finite planet who cannot carry us anymore.
Look around you.
What can you do?
Who can you pressurise to change in your local government, or in your “industry” if you work in one?
What industries have you connections in? Can you pressurise people with power to enact changes in a solution based way ?
What revolutionary ideas have you got?

Note: Non-violent and legal revolution is what I mean of course. Find ways around the system, find ways to shake things up, create and inspire fundamental changes. One inspired person can cause a huge ripple effect, way beyond your imagination. THE SOLUTIONS ALL EXIST. BUT…WE NEED PEOPLE TO IMPLEMENT THE SOLUTIONS.

May next year become an Act of Restorative Kindnes

May next year become an Act of Restorative Kindness to our Mother Earth and all our shared kin. Her health is our health. Our lives are hers.
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Since the industrial and agricultural revolutions,

Since the industrial and agricultural revolutions, we find ourselves in the middle of a growing extinction event. Through and because of our (sometimes well intentioned) scientific advances we have consumed our planets diversity and pushed life to the edges – and now the creatures we share this planet with have nowhere left to go.
All creatures play a vital role in the circle of life. That is, every creature other than us. When a gap appears in that circle or a strand of that web disappears, the system gets weaker and closer to collapse. We rely upon their presence for our clean air and water, healthy foods, and beautiful environments, what’s not so obvious is how many of these species form the basis of the earth’s immune system and indeed our own continued protection from disease and sickness. Each moment of our lives is dependent on this web of life remaining intact.
It is a reality that we must consume life to survive here on earth. For millennia, this was understood, and all life, plant, animal, mineral and beyond, was treated with gratitude, ritual, reverence and respect. We were natural and wild, existing in harmony with the world around us, acting in lifelong service to the earth in return for the life we took. It is our job to ensure the web of life on earth remains intact, if not for any reason other than our own survival.

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