1) I think that education is very important for creating awareness of the world. If you teach people to care and love and heal, then you will get people who want to do things for good reasons. People are not superior to each other, the animals or the earth. By destroying our world you also destroy people. If the trees are gone, then people will not be able to breathe. If the water is polluted we cannot drink. Our needs are connected to the earth. People have been telling each other that we don't need the earth. I think it is time to accept that we do need the earth. We need it to live. Once we accept that it will make an important difference. People need our Mother Earth to nurture us and teach us and we need to love and nurture her too. (Danny)
2) My thoughts at the moment are about what I need vs what I'd like to have (or even what I think I might like to have). Realizing how sacred mountains can be mined, and rivers diverted, livelihoods threatened and cultures and identities broken down, for coal which benefits only a few people makes we question how we live. What do I actually need, what do I sometimes find more convenient, and what is adding to or making problems? We need water but we don't need the dyes and chemicals that get added. I wonder about the choices I've made, and the ones I would have made differently if I had been able to see more holistically. I'm also seeing how human and environmental rights are very intertwined (nicci)
3) There's such value in positive re-inforcement as opposed to horror stories and scare tactics. This work is healing work. It's healing the broken hope. It heals the guilty conscience and warms our hearts to positive change. No matter how slow, it is still a change in the right direction. If everything that is in the world was just originally dreams or ideas then repairing, reducing and caring are also ideas in my head that could oneday become a reality.
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