Dear Joe
The dissi has to be on an environmental subject. The problem
I am facing is having to get raw data as my lecturer is
a real stickler for this!
The possibility of finding out the numbers of women involved
in environmental groups was discussed and so I may start
with this and see where it leads
Lee
On Thu, 27 Jun 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Lee:
>
> What area is your dissertation going to be in, Literature, Psych, ?
>
> At any rate, why not explore the connections between sexual identity and
> paganism from an ecofeminist standpoint. Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing,
> The poetry of Chrystos, Susan Griffin's Woman and Nature, Margo Adler's Drawing
> Down the Moon, might be some helpful texts. Good Luck, Joe Register
>
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 1 13:54:47 1996
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:00:05 -0300
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (amy lynn)
hi there everyone.
here is a copy of a rant that i scribbled down very quickly without any
editing ...
i know the tone needs be mellowed out...i know this sounds angry and will
offend people...
so im asking for input.... i want to keep the full intention but reduce
the "flame"
any suggestions?
thanks, amy
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The time is now to take a fierce moral and personal inventory of
ourselves and see if we are really doing everything we possibly can to heal
the planet. Are we just talking the talk or are we truly walking the
walk? Are we practicing what we preach? Or are we telling "the other guys"
what they need to do without making changes in our own lives? Are we
blaming the corporations, the polititians, the media, the churches ?
Each and every one of us needs to ask ourselves carefully and thoroughly if
our individual life style and consumption habits are consistant with our
wish for a more sustainable future. Are we whining and complaining about
earth's demise while obliviously (or selfishly or consciously) in denial
of our actually false commitments?
Planting a tree , donating time or money to ecological or
conservation organizations, recycling what we can, buying organics, biking
instead of driving.... all these are good things. But it is not enough.
Bemoaning the extinction of wildlife, oceanlife, coral reefs, deserts,
forests, wetlands, praries, jungles and humans is hypocritical for one who
continues to eat meats.
True activism and true planetary revolution begins with the fork and
the plate.
The most basic , the most potent action any person can take is to evolve
from a meat-inclusive diet to meat-free (vegetarian / plant-based) diet.
Any person who pats themselves on the back about what a good
environmentalist or high spiritual being they are while chowing down a tuna
sandwich or a burger is a hypocrite. Any person who teaches others to be
more compassionate, loving, more of a global citizen, more earth-friendly
and then goes home to a chicken dinner is only contributing to more
suffering and more eco-destruction.
AND CONTINUE TO CONSUME THE BODIES OF DEAD ANIMALS .
Animals suffer, the planet suffers, human health suffers, our souls suffer
from consuming death.
We, as the revolutionaries of the new decade, claim to be working on
overcoming racism, ageism, sexism, homophobia, ethnocentrism, etc.... and
yet we STILL KILL ANIMALS !!! This is speciesism. We are against war,
eco-terrorism, corporate polluters, the death penalty or against abortion
and we yet kill cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, fish, rabbits, deer,
etc...etc..
Murder is murder is murder.
Animals are just as capable of love, compassion, pain and suffering as
humans. We do not need to eat dead animals to survive. We will be
healthier and create far less toxics and damage far fewer ecosystems all
over the planet by going vegetarian and vegan.
Enough literature is available in any bookstore anywhere in the world
for us to have easy access to the statistics on global environmental damage
caused by the livestock industry. Any person who refuses to acknowledge
and accept this as fact , any person who selfishly refuses to abandon their
blood food addiction, any person who still believes that it's globally
sustainable for humans to continue to eat flesh should be ashamed of
themselves. The information is out there.
Get educated, get consistant. Claiming to be a healer, teacher,
spiritualist, eco-educator or eco-warrier and still eating meat is as
inconsistant as being a cancer specialist who still smokes cigarettes or a
public health worker who has unprotected sex without condoms. WALK THE
WALK.
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...learn to pretend theres more than love...that matters....
-indigo girls-
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...learn to pretend theres more than love...that matters....
-indigo girls-
