EARTH MEANDERS Farewell My Gaia Loving Friends Personal essay by Dr. Glen Barry, [EMAIL PROTECTED] July 10, 2008
This will be the last Earth Meanders I write. And so with deep regret, I must say thank you and goodbye. It has been such an incredible honor to share with this 75,000 persons list my biocentric meanders on the true state of the Earth and what is required to save her and ourselves. My self-revelatory, frequently brutally honest sharing -- in the grand tradition of Montaigne's personal essays -- has brought me out of deep, dark and deadly despair. I am well again because of writing for you. If only we could say the same for the Earth! This I know for sure. The Earth is alive. Humanity, and you and yours, have made choices that have made us all a disease upon Gaia. The response thus far has largely been self-serving efforts to maintain elite rule through technological attempts to maintain democratic over-consumption for the few at the expense of the many. This can only fail. Truly sufficient Gaia loving measures would include population and consumption reductions, and perhaps revolution. For four years -- coinciding with the completion of my Ph.D. - - I have bared my soul and shared over 70 biocentric meanders with you. I have been able to synthesize 20 years of studying ecology, with personal anguish at the end of being. Now, after much soul-searching and near bankruptcy, I have decided to move onto other endeavors. Over the past month a poor fund-raiser with Ecological Internet, the NGO I head, and an unexpected cash flow problem, brought my family and me near bankruptcy and homelessness. This has been a tense, difficult time. Despite being often raw and written quickly, creating these essays has been time- consuming. The free effort can no longer be maintained. While I have long been reconciled that my life as a political ecologist would require sacrifice and frugality, I am not prepared to jeopardize my family's well-being and basic needs. Future plans? Work like hell to make Ecological Internet's web portals the preeminent facilitator of sufficient green knowledge and action. We already have invented blogging and environmental search engines, and there is much more innovation to come. I will scratch my writing itch by channeling my energy into a book on biocentric thought, and a novel envisioning a fictional revolutionary response to prevent the Earth's death. Eventually I intend to launch a new e-zine through Ecological Internet where my and submitted writings will emphasize a full understanding of the global emergency and truthful, adequate solutions. Please, let me ask you a favor if you are able. I am looking for consulting or environmental IT work, as often in the past I have maintained the web activism while working, and must now. My IT and ecological policy skills are exemplary. And to survive, Ecological Internet needs grant leads, and donations to support radical and ambitious web activism on behalf of being at http://www.ecoearth.info/donate/ . Sorry to leave you asking for money, but otherwise this voice for Gaia will be lost altogether. The Earth is a beautiful fucked up place, full of hope and promise, even in death. I urge you to use your life to do everything in your power to protect ecosystems from destruction, and restore what has been lost. Defending Gaia is the meaning of life for all of remaining human history. --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
