Bury My Heart In Mother Earth [Updated & Updated]

Now that Native Alaska Villages will probably have to relocate, because the ice is melting underneath them,I have no words at this point, only tears.

Emily Dickinson – I measure every grief…

There’s grief of want, and grief of cold,–

A sort they call ‘despair,’

There’s banishment from native eyes,

In sight of native air.

[Update #2]:

I want to respond to all the beautiful comments, I just can’t think right now. I came home from work sick and need to take care of myself. I’ll remember this moment though, etched in my memory forever…of where I was and what I was doing when just before the tipping point was by and large unavoidable and highly likely to be totally breached in the near future – and it already has been breached
“on parts of the world – in particular Africa, Asian river deltas, low-lying islands and the Arctic.” My god, am I reading that right?

I’m choosing love over fear

Mitakuye Oyasin

Crossposted at Progressive Historians

Al Gore:

‘I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously. The voice of caution whispers persuasively in the ear of every politician …. But … the integrity of the environment is not just another issue to be used in political games for popularity, votes, or attention. And the time has long since come to take more political risks — and endure much more political criticism — by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactment.'”

I once thought this might be too extreme and there’s a picture of something very sacred to me that’s mine, and you’re not supposed to photograph such things in my beliefs. Well, what would my relatives the Inuit want me to do?

Global Warming: From “If” to “When” (Video)

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

Maya Angelou

The love for the land and the earth is what my personal philosophy is based upon. I see and feel earth as my mother, grandmother, and my very soul. I think she is dying and may purify herself, and when China’s rare river dolphin became extinct; I think she died a little more. 

Also, as the birds die, I think she will continue to die too.

To me water is her blood, which is drying up.

One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100, say climate experts in the most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming

And I believe her heart is somewhere at her center.

It seems like a strange analogy, since this analogy places much of her blood on her skin, or would it be contained by the ozone (emphasis mine)?

How could a prediction of more rain lead to worries about less water?

As global climate change gets worse and worse, we’re going to see more of this precipitation fall as rain. That will run off right away. That means winter runoff is going to grow. We’re going to get more runoff in the winter periods, which is precisely the time we don’t want it. We don’t want a lot of winter runoff, because that’s when we get the worst flooding and the worst damages from floods. At the same time what that means is that less of the snowpack is going to be available to run off in the spring and the summer. And so runoff in the spring and the summer is going to decrease. We’re going to get less runoff at the time of the year when we need it the most. This is the worst of both possible worlds.

To me, that and this make us part of her –

The Gaia Theory

The theory asserts that living organisms and their inorganic surroundings have evolved together as a single living system that greatly affects the chemistry and conditions of Earth’s surface.

and everything else, too.

I let science explain “how;” I just wanted to share my beliefs about “why.”

This truth (emphasis mine):

Miller: A ‘new world’ to claim – the Arctic

Recent news reports state that global warming and the shrinking Arctic ice caps are opening sea lanes, making islands accessible and causing the international community to engage in a new race to acquire this ”new world.” Conflicts have already arisen over shipping, islands, fish, minerals and oil that are now becoming exploitable.

Governments are even now engaged in asserting sovereignty over these assets. Canada, Denmark and the United States are already involved in disputes over these issues.
For example, Canada and Denmark have sent diplomats and warships to plant flags on Hans Island near Greenland. In 1984, Denmark’s Minister for Greenland Affairs raised the Danish flag on the island, buried a bottle of brandy, and left a note that said ”Welcome to the Danish Island.” Canada was not amused by this assertion of Danish sovereignty.

makes me feel powerless, even with the letters and petitions I’ve signed. So, all I have left to offer –

Al Gore:

When people have an adequate amount of power–political, economic, and spiritual power–they naturally choose to live in a clean environment, a balanced environment with clean air and clean water, an abundance of life.

is a prayer that has meant a great deal to me, as well as one I wrote myself while contemplating the first prayer. If you would prefer to not read them, this diary is through.

While I admit these are my beliefs, those that don’t share them may find reading them in this context more reasonable:

JosephCampbell

CAMPBELL: That would be a mistake in the reading of the symbol. That is reading the words in terms of prose instead of in terms of poetry, reading the metaphor in terms of the denotation instead of the connotation.

MOYERS: And poetry gets to the unseen reality.

CAMPBELL: That which is beyond even the concept of reality, that which transcends all thought. The myth puts you there all the time, gives you a line to connect with that mystery which you are (Campbell, 1988:57).

I will give a summary before they are read, because what makes sense to me doesn’t necessarily make sense to others in these areas. More specifically this summary is: the archetypal symbols of the sun and rain still possibly containing hidden answers and solutions to climate disintegration, the fact we’re causing Global Warming, how we’re all in this together, characteristics of great leaders from many areas that I feel are needed to address the environmental crisis we are now in, the corollary of what nations do when they are in the midst of extreme social and economic difficulties to the land and to others, and hoping peace will triumph through it all. If you would prefer to not read them, this diary is through.

*(note: “presidents and vice-presidents” in the last section refers to past ones still living and politically active)

ED McGAA, Eagle Man’s prayer from “Earth Prayers from Around the World.” p.119.

“Ho. Wiyopeyata ouye, power of the setting sun.

We call on you. Have pity on us that the people may live.

Wakinyan, thunder beings of the black west, we call on you.

You are the source of both the power to live and of destruction,

Who ride the back of minne wichoni, the life-giving rains.

For long years, the way of the people has been

Weak and there has been fear.

Many have said that the red road would disappear and that the

Six powers of Wanka Tanka would turn their faces from us.

It is true that many of the old ways have been lost.

But just as the life-giving rains restore the earth after the drought,

So your power will restore the Way and give it new life.

We ask this not only for the red people but for all the

People that they might live.

In ignorance and carelessness they have walked upon

Ina Maka, our Mother.

They did not understand that they are part of all beings,

The four-legged, the winged, the grandfather rock,

The tree people, and our star brothers.

Now the earth and all our relations are crying out.

They cry for the help of all people.”

I wrote this last fall before this came out,

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies.
The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

and things keep getting worse –

A “New World” to Claim – The Arctic By Robert J. Miller

Recent news reports state that global warming and the shrinking Arctic icecaps are opening new sea lanes and making barren islands suddenly very valuable.  In fact, the international community might experience a new race of exploration, conquest and acquisition for this “new world” – these newly available lands and sea routes.  Conflicts could arise over shipping lanes, islands, fish stocks, minerals and oil that are now becoming accessible and commercially exploitable.
 

which is largely why I feel the need to post it now.

“O Spirit of the One, called by many names…

The nations upon Ina Maka, our Mother are dying.

We are poisoning her blood, collapsing her veins, and

Mortally wounding Her with mass weapons of war.

The time is coming when has come and our Mother will be is harmed beyond the power to heal Her.

That Ina Maka and all the nations upon her might live…

I call on the ghosts of George Washington, Samuel Adams,

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi, Jesus, Buddha, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Correta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Wovoka, Odin, Yehovashah,Grandfather Fools Crow, His Horse is Crazy, Geronimo, and any benevolent spirit anyone so chooses –

Destroy the rising exterimination and genocide…

Massacred Ghost Dancers at Wounded Knee:

Replace it with respect, freedom, unity, and peace…

(Close Moxtaveto’s, or Black Kettle’s death. Maybe 1/4 mile)

Protect our Peaceful Warriors from all lies and all harm.

Protect our congressman, senators, military officials, high-ranking officers, authors, journalists, artists, policeman, fireman, teachers, scientists, professors, presidents, vice-presidents, and political candidates who stand with Wambli, the Eagle and the symbol of freedom for the United States of America.

May Wambli give wisdom and power to them.

May Tskele, the Night Eagle protect and

Shield them from all harm.

Show us the power of truth and unconditional love –

That earth be might saved and that the people might live.”

Mitakuye Oyasin

(All my relations)

[Update]:

‘Too late to avoid global warming,’ say scientists

‘Too late to avoid global warming,’ say scientists

A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures – the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding – is now “very unlikely” to be avoided, the world’s leading climate scientists said yesterday.

The latest study from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the inevitability of drastic global warming in the starkest terms yet, stating that major impacts on parts of the world – in particular Africa, Asian river deltas, low-lying islands and the Arctic – are unavoidable and the focus must be on adapting life to survive the most devastating changes.

Calling Al Gore: Catastrophic warming now unavoidable.