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Environmentalist David Suzuki questions Abbott government's stance on climate change

Posted Fri 20 Sep 2013, 9:12am AEST [YT of embedded]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KmbTWz-C58

World renowned environmentalist Professor David Suzuki says he is
concerned about the Abbott government's stance on climate change.

Beverley O'Connor

Source: ABC News | Duration: 6min 4sec

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-20/david-suzuki-questions-abbot-governments-stance/4970500

See also:

Apocalypse No! The Law of Life and the Law of Death

.. excerpt with David Suzuki mention ..

All My Relations

It hasn’t always been like this. The world renowned paleoanthropologist, Richard Leakey, came to a stunning and beautiful conclusion about human evolution. He says that what set us on the path to human-ness was one thing: sharing - that sharing is the key to our evolution and the primary cause of the evolutionary leap that created us.

No other primate shares its food. While other primates occasionally hunt, and have even been seen to hunt cooperatively, no other primate gathers its food and shares it with others. Other primates don’t gather food and share it, they forage for it, and eat it themselves, where they find it.

No other primate has a division of labor that is predicated on sharing what the gatherers gather with the hunters and what the hunters hunt with the gatherers. Leakey suggests that in the most literal sense sharing fueled human evolution, making immense stores of energy available to our ancestors. Sharing fueled our growth in every sense.

Sharing food involves what Leakey calls reciprocal altruism; those that shared had better chances of survival; he says that our evolution “selected” for certain traits; “sympathy, gratitude, guilt and moral indignation” – empathy, in a word. Those who will not or cannot share are ostracized; their chances for survival plummet.

Leakey is unequivocal. “We are human because our ancestors learned to share their food and their skills in an honored network of obligation,” he writes in People of the Lake (emphasis added).

In every original, ancient human culture this sense of sharing, honor and obligation – this sense of kinship – extends beyond the self to the family, beyond the family to the band, beyond the band to the tribe, and beyond the tribe to the plants and animals, to the very stones.

Our primal sensibility is that we are related, that we belong, that we are wrapped in a matrix of living that is fundamentally secure, and that our part is to reciprocate, to ensure the balances that sustain our living matrix, our living mother.

The Lakota nation has a word for this: mitakuye oyasin: all my relations. The term so deeply expresses the indigenous sensibility of an honored and beloved network of reciprocal obligation with land and life that it has been adopted as a byword, a sacred expression, by indigenous peoples throughout the US.

But something has gone terribly wrong. Around the Earth those who hold to this original law have been systematically destroyed.

Such destruction is called genocide, but it is more than that. It is the mass murder of the keepers of the Law of Life, the Law of the Land. It is an act of profound spiritual darkness.

The destruction of those who remember the original law of our being implies, in the most obvious and literal sense, the abandonment, destruction and repudiation of the Law of Life and the destruction and repudiation of our actual, practical relationships to one another and to life itself.

The violation of this Law, and the spirals of pain that have resulted from it, have set us on a path to suicide, to omnicide. For ten thousand years, since the advent of “civilization,” we’ve been on a path to a single destination: apocalypse.

The “fathers” of civilization have, at some level, always known it: that’s why the myths of a coming apocalypse have been with us for so very long.

Entrapped in what we call “civilization,” we live by another law. Robert Oppenheimer, progenitor of the atomic bomb, understood himself, and perhaps he understood the matrix of pain and destruction that has captured us:

“I am become Death, destroyer of worlds,” he said.

The law we live by is more than obvious. We live by the law of death. We have replaced the Law of Land and Life with the law of death, with a law of reverse evolution we call “progress.”

The Aboriginal peoples of Australia understand the matter with utter clarity. David Suzuki and Peter Knudston describe the Aboriginal view of the radical disconnection in the Western, civilized experience of the world:

“In their cultural detachment from the true dynamics of life’s origins and the fundamental burdens and boundlessness of time, these arrogant intruders are hopelessly confused. Not knowing what to remember and what to forget, they follow dead laws, fail to recognize living ones, and in their power and denial promote death.”

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