A message to my nominees for this years indigenous water rights winter challenge: This challenge is a personal choice and in no way should you feel pressured to do it. That being said, think it over and decide. I did it because I cant think of a more important issue to bring attention to than water rights. We find ourselves amidst a culture that is at war with nature and considers itself natures master. California in its natural state, (pun intended), is as dry as Arizona and New Mexico. Today it is home to the California aqueduct. This is the largest manmade water conveyance system in the nation and can be seen from space. 70% of this water is used in urban areas and 30% in the farmlands of the central valley, which supplys produce, nuts and fruit globally. These people have invested in a system that wasnt part of natures plan. This doesnt mean they are bad people, but when this was constructed, water was plentiful. This is no longer the case. The arrogance and audacity of humankind causes us to think that nature is below us and that we are somehow aloof from the orchestrated symbiosis of organisms and plant life that has been perfected over an unimaginable (by human standards) amount of time. Native people knew how to play the roll of conductor in this ecological orchestra and used this knowledge to develop a pristine wilderness that was capable of supporting life indefinitely. Despite what you may have heard, they werent a rabid bunch of savages who were barely human and needed to assimilate into civilized society. They were master stewards of an extremely rich environment that, with their help rather than hindrance, produced abundant resources and was fully sustainable. then came Columbus from across the ocean blue in 1492. I stand by my belief that these people, who had already depleted their own resources and created a more civilized but not so sustainable landscape, were and still are the actual savages. Native people have said from the start that the all out war against nature could only have one possible outcome, and it aint Shangri-La. More like the hell that we were told all of us heathens would go to. My point is, that it is important that we take these kinds of opportunities to remind the world that we are still here, that we still remember, and that, if any of us still exist who can help fix the world once the war with nature reaches its inevitable conclusion. Also, imagine your grandchild coming home from school saying that someone said that you were that guy who chickened out of the 2014 challenge and that he beat the crap out of him and is now expelled and facing juvy time. Dont be that guy. lol
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 04:25:46 +0000
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