Sept 11 2014 Who cares
about butterflies? They’ve always been
around. The gravely diminishing
population of the Monarch butterflies is something humanity would scarcely have
noticed at another time. However we now
live at a nexus calling for us to see and approach differently the world in
which we live. Humanity’s next
evolutionary step has to start now, a step in which we think in new ways about
the web of life within which we have our
being. Mankind as the conqueror of
nature and the entitled rampant killer has to give way to another way of
thinking.
Not just for new
concepts of morality but for survival of the web of life – which we have rarely
considered with the relevant and necessary vision. Mankind’s path of triumphalism has been
predicated on a vision of humanity as above and apart from nature. Earlier in
the 20th century politicians and developers boastfully said: “We will make the deserts bloom,” not
realizing that the deserts already bloomed in ways differently than suburban
gardens.
We need to become seers
(see-ers) and activists. Today’s example
is “Roundup,” Monsanto’s herbicide, a poison similar to the “Agent Orange” used
to devastate lives and the countryside in the Viet Nam war. “RoundUp is made of glyphosate, the primary active ingredient
and Agent Orange of our time,” according to Natural Society.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/still-eating-agent-orange/
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/still-eating-agent-orange/
Using herbicides like
Monsanto's Roundup on genetically engineered (GE) crops is
destroying a significant portion of the Monarch butterflies breeding habitat.
We are asked to implore
the the U.S. government to take urgent action in listing the Monarch butterfly
under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
