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Monday, October 15, 2007
Today is Blog Action Day!
Woohoo...! The good news is that today's topic is the "environment".
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-individual-action-is-not-enough
My contribution to this topic is this: We should no longer refer to the Earth, our home, as the "environment"! It may seem like a trivial matter of semantics, but it isn't! The "environment" sounds like some distant third party "thing". Referring to the Earth, our home on the other hand is much more personal and meaningful! We tend to take better care of things we love and relate to.
Another point i want to make is this: Capitalize the e in Earth when referring to Earth, our home! Our Earth is a living breathing organism, so we should be refer to it by its personal name the Earth. We give more respect to John Doe or Mars, Jupiter and Pluto than we do to the Earth when we don't capitalize the e. This is lunacy. No wonder we don't take very good care of the "earth" or the "environment". Humanity's home will be the Earth for a long time, so let's take better care of Her, ok ?
Finally, a nice side effect of changing how we refer to the "environment", is that the label "environmentalist" will fade away. The new term will be Earthists! It won't be as easy to "pigeon hole" people that love the Earth, our home by calling them "those darned Earthists"! We could simply reply ,"Who are you, an alien, perhaps a Marsist ? If you don't like it on Earth, go back to your own planet. Don't trash our home!". QED
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/2007/10/15/blog-action-day-individual-action-is-not-enough
My contribution to this topic is this: We should no longer refer to the Earth, our home, as the "environment"! It may seem like a trivial matter of semantics, but it isn't! The "environment" sounds like some distant third party "thing". Referring to the Earth, our home on the other hand is much more personal and meaningful! We tend to take better care of things we love and relate to.
Another point i want to make is this: Capitalize the e in Earth when referring to Earth, our home! Our Earth is a living breathing organism, so we should be refer to it by its personal name the Earth. We give more respect to John Doe or Mars, Jupiter and Pluto than we do to the Earth when we don't capitalize the e. This is lunacy. No wonder we don't take very good care of the "earth" or the "environment". Humanity's home will be the Earth for a long time, so let's take better care of Her, ok ?
Finally, a nice side effect of changing how we refer to the "environment", is that the label "environmentalist" will fade away. The new term will be Earthists! It won't be as easy to "pigeon hole" people that love the Earth, our home by calling them "those darned Earthists"! We could simply reply ,"Who are you, an alien, perhaps a Marsist ? If you don't like it on Earth, go back to your own planet. Don't trash our home!". QED
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Introducing Ecosistency
For many years i seem to be pursuing ecological consistency. i even coined the word ecosistency to explain this pursuit. What the heck does that mean you ask? i define Ecosistency as a human movement towards ecological consistency. Only non-human lifeforms are ecosistent! Humans can only approach complete ecological consistency. We just don't get what it means to be ecologically consistent, namely, to live in such a way as to be wholly part of nature. Almost by definition, we separate ourselves from nature... apart from it... above it sometimes. Enough verbiage... i think i'll be able to describe things better over time in these blog entries.
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