Last Chance For Our Species

Last Chance For Our Species

Speakers at the Sierra Club's annual Wilderness Conference last weekend delivered articulate warnings of various impending ecological disasters.

The several approaching catastrophes seem to be racing each other: will our species poison itself, or will it starve itself, or will it smother itself? Of course we can't forget the bomb, we may all be wasted away by the bomb.

The speakers at the San Francisco Hilton had organized their information brilliantly--and delivered it firmly. But never once did they say by any means necessary'. They had all the information, but they didn't seem to have a program or a way to put a stop to the rape of our mother earth.

Prof. Robert Curry of the UC Santa Barbara said the population explosion is not occurring but has already occurred and the first of a series of widespread famines is inevitable within a relatively short time; he proposed that certain wilderness areas be designated "refugia",and this area must be protected from large, starving populations.

Gary Snyder suggested that Prof. Curry's 'fefugia' also protect traditional  primitive peoples in order to preserve the knowledges of wild ecology. He also suggested that Borneo be sealed off from civilized human predators.

Gary said he would be happy to sit down in front of a bulldozer whose operator was bent on earth-rape. He proposed investigation to determine which US organizations and companies and private individuals are most responsible for fucking up the ecology of the planet.

Probably the brightest ecological action so far was one pulled off by Diggers and Provos in Mew York City in early summer of 1967.

Executives of Consolidated Edison, one of the chief air polluters in NYC, got soot sprayed in their faces as they emerged from their headquarters building around 5 pm. The guerrillas got way before the peace  officers arrived.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO!

Every morning when you get up blow your nose into an envelope, seal it up with a little note inside, send it to Detroit Edison. Tell them, since you guys put this shit in the air, I thought you might want it back. The next day do the same thing only send it to GM or Ford. You get the picture.

OR

Find the spot where a certain factory pollutes a river, blow it up, or a factory who pollutes the air, blow up its smokestacks, . They get the picture.

We are eating planet, the New York Times takes a forest, every Sunday, Los Angeles draws its water from Sacramento Valley the rivers of British Columbia are ours on lease for 99 years, there are no more clams in Puget Sound every large factory is an infringement of our god-given right  to light  & air to clean and flowing rivers stocked with fish to the very possibility of life for children's children, we will have to look carefully, i.e., do we really want / need electricity and at what cost in natural resources human resource

do we need cars, when petroleum pumped from the earth poisons the land, around for 100 years, pumped from the car poisons the hard-pressed cities, or try this statistic, the USA has 5% of the world's people uses over holds matter for survival for uncounted "underdeveloped" nations.

"Every man, woman and child on the face of the planet earth, jas the right to the highest and the vest and the most beautiful life that technology and human knowledge and wisdom is able to produce. Period, So we start from there ."

Eldridge Cleaver