Hope and Survival by Wallaby Poors

The land has been taken and taken over again. The ones that come and plunder the land don’t know the land and its sacredness. There seems no way out from the consequences of their actions. Their system devours all that is sacred to us. We are unsure where to turn, with our survival and our hope disconnected from each other. Survival without hope for the future makes their less options for survival in the future

Hope and survival need to reconnect or we will spiral downward into a new world order where none of us will be free. Hope is what carries us on, what transcends our enslavement. Slaves carry on only with the hope of a better future. The hope for freedom. A freedom from slavery.. Disconnecting from each other and our environment are our greatest threats. Not having enough supporters is worse that having many opponents.

The biological disasters the system is creating are being ignored by the profiteers of the system and the mass media. Indicators for climate change increasingly point to sooner and larger changes in the environment. The ice melts of the northern and southern poles are on, and life on earth will never be the same. Talk of rise in sea levels should have us on the coast a little worried.

The latest report from the United Nation’s International Union of Conservation and Nature (IUCN) on endangered species reconfirms that species extinction is running at 1000 times the natural rate. The alarm bells have been ringing now for so long that many people can no longer hear them. The mass media has tiny little coverage of what should be important global headlines. We have failed to inspect the evidence and the canary is dead.

It seems like we need to free the canary before we can free ourselves. The canary in the coalmine carried the warning of impending death. The global mine has lost its bearings and those enamoured in the excess and waste of first world imperialism have forgotten what is always in the front of their eyes but absent from their daily thoughts.

To free ourselves we must remember the ghost of the canary in our global industrial military nuclear chemical shopping mine.

The alarm bells are ringing clearly in all environmental indicators, such as the death of frogs in the riparian zones and waterways, to the plankton of the melting Antarctic to the polar bears of the melting Arctic Circle. The last of the planet’s ancient ecosystems are being woodchipped under a corporate planetary banditry. Desertification is increasing through unsustainable agricultural methods.

Permaculture or permanent culture is a loose framework for a future method of survival, as industrial pesticide and petrochemical culture follows a road to extinction. We need a holistic permanent culture based on socially just and environmentally sustainable principles. A culture that blends the best of old and new knowledge. A culture that has learnt the lessons of war, genocide, ecocide, pollution and slavery. A culture that embraces the natural environment as its greatest asset and treats it as a gift that can be lost if not respected and acknowledged as such.

Biodiversity is the planet’s greatest asset, and is being lost at a diabolical rate. Biodiversity is part of the Earth and not owned by gene altering chemical corporations. Minerals are part of the earth and not owned by mining corporations. The ability to survive is increasingly being illegally owned by corporations, as is DNA, and the patenting of life. Monsanto does not legally own life under any justice. Nor does Novartis or Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Living under slavery is a hard place to fight for freedom and justice from, but ignoring your slavery is no place at all.

Freedom is not forgetting the past. Lessons of the past learnt can save us from the condemnation of repeating them. It’s the freedom of learning through karmic nudges not karmic sledgehammers. Sledgehammers hurt and make us more repressed.

Precautionary and reactionary behaviours appear at different times to the same problems. Precaution gives us insight and a little foresight, whereas reaction is taken when we are on the back foot.

Freedom is not forgetting the past and freedom is not forgetting the future. Decisions made for future generations on the lessons learnt from the past, done consensually by the myriad of interpretations different people compassionately and honestly bring.

Freedom is self determination, not a new IKEA coffee table made from old growth Brazilian rainforest or choice between McDonalds or KFC for dinner. Freedom is suppressed by brands and products brought to us by a litany of corporate destruction.

Self determination comes through an understanding of cause and effect. The Rainforest furniture came from the place that the big mac patties now come from. I can’t support the rainforest and support McDonalds. Which benefits the planet more, the biodiversity, the cultural diversity, and therefore, myself? Which is my choice?

Self determination is for all, a freedom from discrimination in the community. Self determination requires a co-operative community that respects people for who they are. Self determination can only ever be ensured by guaranteeing it for everyone. Freedom requires the responsibility of not threatening another’s freedom or survival.

It is this cornerstone idea; with the sanctity we give someone’s life, which underpins our repulsion to murder. If we are repulsed by murder, we must also have a repulsion to war, which is a mass genocide of people, but harder to pinpoint in its rage of mass murder from afar. In war, many people die for some elite people’s spat over glory and wealth.

Currently global decisions are being made in the interests of warmongers who direct their enslaved footsoldiers in their plans for global imperialism, from the safety and leisure of their palaces. Are we going to continue to be victims of mass murderers and thieves forever or until they destroy us all?

Rather than people gaining the freedom to self determine their best interests, and having the ability to move toward a more sustainable lifestyle, we are all getting increasingly chained to the system. We are being led like lemmings to toxic meltdown. We cannot cope anymore. People want to change but fear the government. If given the chance would people govern themselves to seek better outcomes to the entrenched problems of the current system?

A lot of people are living to protect their own interests, and where possible their children. The future that their children’s’ children will inherit is not being considered by those who have the privilege of ignoring it. The future survival prospects of humanity are leading some white racist movements to justify ignoring AIDS in Africa. Their ideas of survival in the future have the ethics of survival at all costs, and envision a them and us mentality. The talk is of shooting your neighbour, not helping them.

It is this self-interest that is leading us to mutually assured destruction all round.

No one is free unless we are all free. To persecute difference is to persecute the natural physicality and culture someone is born into, and to persecute the way we can all express ourselves and think. To persecute others for where and whom they are born to is a persecution of lucky dip. To think that it is justified to have the freedom of hatred of others on these grounds is irrational.

The persecution of difference also leads to a reactionary persecution of those who sympathise with all of humanity, and respect global and local needs of cultural sovereignty and diversity, and a reactionary persecution of those who care for the biodiversity, ecosystems and other species on the planet.

Those who dare to dream of a better future face increasing persecutions by the state. Our war is for a better future for the earth and its inhabitants. All violence amongst any of the people benefits the state. We need to stand together. Our enemy is state, capitalism and authoritarianism, but our fight transcends these foes, as it is a fight for survival as we know it. A survival that can only be granted by collectivist means, not by huge disparities in wealth and survival for some. A survival that does not include genocide of the poor

The great idea not focussed on in evolutionary theory is co-operation, and our natural consciousness understands that we all bloom in peace and equality. Human rights can never be realised if those who receive human rights are selected by genetics or beliefs. Human rights only exist if they exist for all humans.

Our human survival depends on a humanity free of genocides. We cannot ignore continents of people suffering and do nothing. This is condoning genocide. Reprehensible ideas of feathering our own nests so our going doesn’t get too tough need to be examined for their effect on people outside our community. You don’t need a gated community, and if you think you do your world is based on fantasies and delusion, not justice and security.

We need to recognise that the mass genocides that have created so much upheaval cannot be repeated again in the increasing globalisation of neoliberalism. The new brand name for mass global genocide is neoliberal globalisation. It is a conversion into a new world order that wants a single culture dictated by and for the interests of the powers that be. Where people gain their food nutrition from and appreciate the diversity of the mcdonalds menu.

The waves of new technologies and their continual rebranding occupy the mental environment, making the future less certain but guaranteed to be branded. Neon lights do not trick us anymore!

People are starting to wake up to the complete darkness the powerful are leading us into. Many feel powerless to change things and some attack groups of people they feel they can hurt. This can include those who support their emancipation from slavery. (by fighting for their own emancipation)

It can be a bitterness toward people who appear free, as they fight for ideas of freedom, but who are just struggling against the system a little louder. These same people struggling and resisting a little louder also condemn the persecution of anyone, making it an effort for people to justify their prejudices over a more rational analysis of the situation.

There is a consensus of realisation that while some of us feel a desperate need for change, others couldn’t care less. This is an argument for us to keep walking forward, not going quietly into other people’s oblivious disconnection. The challenge starts with ourselves and ends with ourselves in our own seeking of truth as best as we can. Yes we need everyone else to support the need for change, but most of all, the planet needs people to not give up hope on it or each other. Let that hopeful person be you.

There is an important need for the consolidation of peace, justice, human rights, local cultural sovereignty, asylum from persecution, other species’ rights, ecological survival and clean food and water protection. There is no justice, just us. We ARE our only hope. We still care and our concerns still matter.

Those who fight for social change and environmental survival do so not because they want to be proven right. I wish I were wrong. My personal hell is to spend the last moments before a nuclear apocalypse yelling I told you so to other condemned souls.

We need to believe ourselves, and not the media lies that get fed back to us, sometimes by our own families and communities. We need to seriously consider our preparation for the outcomes of our own prophecies. Lets save seed diversity, let’s recall our ancestral connection to natural timing and balance. Let’s honour our home and environment. It is one and the same.

Let’s celebrate with our environmental calendar, not the shopping calendar. Let us be heard on the winds, not lost on them. Hear each other over the television. Hear our neighbours over the elite benefactors of the system.

Lets talk under trees, not over old growth timber coffee tables. Look after your connections and your connections will look after you. That being a universal existence and a connection to all

Wallaby Poors 2004 Soil Liberation Frontyard Publications sustainablesnail@riseup.net nonprofit copyleft printed on recycled paper