Dear Ecofem, <<<Biodiversity Requital Agenda>>>
Take this with osmotic salt, as long as it calls up a Tsunami! I am holding
all the leaders of the world to account for biodiversity and for the the
ecofeminist unveiling. They have two years to make good. I am inviting all
the peoples of the Earth in two years time to Jerusalem for a millenial
biodiversity accounting. Please come! This addresses all the issues of
ecosystemic survival and respect and justice for the female.
You have three days to tell me to suck, or to add further bite. Then this
goes out with my "Genesis of Eden" CD ecofeminist encyclopedia and "Sacred
Marriage songs of the Bridegroom" in the Bridal apocalypse of ecofeminism.
The quotes from Isaiah 61 are for a key practical purpose (Luke 4:21 is the
unlocking).
Please request a free CD! $15+ US donation to Sakina Jerusalem sufficient.
TO: Chris King, Mathematics Department, University of Auckland,
Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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To world political, economic and religious leaders and every sentient being
on planet Earth.
REQUITAL DOCUMENT - Chris King
Purpose:
This document is a practical agenda to give you as world leaders two years
to make good and to protect the futures of all the diverse and relatively
powerless people of this planet, the "meek", who "shall inherit the earth",
and will have to turn what is left after the chaos of the environmental and
biodiversity climacteric into a sustainable society for the future
unfolding of life and our offspring.
"To preach good tidings unto the meek"
I am calling a gathering of the nations in the name of Sakina in Jerusalem
on Epiphany 2000 to celebrate the Requital of male and female in the Song
of Songs and to "judge the quick and the dead" - i.e. to determine how you
and the other leaders of the last two millennia have performed in history -
and to take the next step for life and for the defenceless species we are
driving to extinction. By "the nations", I mean all the ethnic peoples,
especially those who have been reduced to near annihilation by colonial and
economic exploitation - the peoples who emerged from the Rift Valley,
spanning the !Kung to the Shipibo, the Inuit, the Maori and on to the
Israelites and the Palestinians themselves, who still form an unresolved
wound that began when the Hapiru descended upon the Canaanites and
Phillistines in the time of Saul, whose name the Palestinians still
celebrate.
Formal Invitation:
I also invite representatives of all environmental and civil rights groups,
and all religious and spiritual paths to the gathering. To Greenpeace and
Amnesty International, Sakina is your greening peace child too. To the
people of the three paths of the Book, all rivers lead to one ocean.
Reunion lies in Sakina. To Wicca. Return O Shulamite! To Buddhists, Om
Mani Padme Hum. To the Tibetans. Tashi Julay from Yeshe Tenzin. Abide. To
the people of India. Om nama Shivai, Hare Kali-ma, from Yogindra Baba.
Please do not kill the girl child. To the people of China, The Way that
cannot be told is the countless Tao. Take the Way of the Valley, the Way of
the Uncarved Block and Free Tibet. To the Mazatecs, Ji ni na, Mar�a
patronai. To the Maori, Aroha.
Timing:
I am setting out this document of Requital, on the first anniversary of my
millennial three-year mission to save the biodiversity of our planet, to
set the measure of world transformation and to address the issues which
need to be resolved quickly and effectively if we are going to stop the
holocaust of biodiversity and preserve our most precious living genetic
garment for the benefit of future generations.
"To proclaim the acceptable year"
If you wish to study why my presence coincides with the Christian
millennium and with the climacteric of biodiversity extinction, please read
the Genesis of Eden in detail for a quantum-mechanical description.
Spiritual Democracy and the Ethic of True Love:
I come as a follower, as a servant of the smallest among us to proclaim
love and peace in the place of war and dominion - sakina in the place of
jihad. True love, even of our enemies, so that a full requital can take
place and Earth can again become whole. We cannot escape the alienation
and angst of our existential dilemma until we realize our full potential in
love and until we stop destroying our future heritage.
"To bind up the brokenhearted"
I am not here to be a secular or religious authority, but a catalyst to
heal in freedom, to restore the questioning soul of humanity, our
independence of insight and vision, the divine spark within, and our sense
of direction in the unfolding of life's living diversity. To usher in a
new epoch of spiritual democracy in our coming of age in the universe and
in our assuming responsibility for our future - "I have said ye are gods
and children of the most high". Spiritual democracy respects the Wisdom
within our shared vision which can provide the foresight to deal with the
unfolding future given the immense powers we have gained over the physical
and natural world. Science cannot solve these questions, except to tell us
the factual basis upon which we can make an ethical decision and any likely
consequences. Neither can any religious dogma hope to address the new
ethical issues being raised by scientific advance.
The Planting: A New Ecosystemic Synthesis:
Rio has passed with no effective result and Kyoto looks set to be another
horse-trading session by an energy-greedy US, despite European commitment.
This track record is parallelled in the US delaying to sign the world
biodiversity accord. Nuclear weapons remain abundant and there is
increasing risk of nuclear proliferation. Sumatra and the Amazon are
burning and the seas are polluted and over-fished. El Ni�o is rumbling,
the ice sheets crumbling. World peace and disarmament are nowhere in
sight. Militarization still takes precedence over world poverty and world
health. The Millennium is upon us.
If we do not act now to renew the world order, all the signs are that
hypocracy and short-term winner-take-all greed will decimate biodiversity
and the resources of our planet in a "tragedy of the commons" which will
strip and burn our great rain forests, the lungs of our green planet and
the cradle of our living diversity, the riches of the oceans, and our very
atmosphere, leaving only an "accursed share" in perpetuity to our own
descendents, our very life blood of the future. Such selfishness in one
generation will cause all of us to be cursed, not for millennia, but for
millions of years. As I stand on this earth in a climacteric spanning all
of evolutionary time - cosmological time also - I cannot afford to leave
biodiversity to drift any further towards holocaust.
"Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord"
It is thus time for all of us on planet Earth to come to a new synthesis, a
restoration and replanting of nature, to undo the damage of pollution,
nuclear fallout, habitat destruction and exploitation of every available
resource, in a replanting of life for the future of our own offspring and
for the unfolding diversity of life itself, while there is still time and
the jewel of biodiversity is yet with us.
"and they shall build the old wastes
and they shall raise up the former desolations
... of many generations ...
as the earth bringeth forth her bud,
and as the garden causeth the things that are in it to spring forth."
This can take place only through a complete re-examination of what
ecosystemic society means, which goes beyond the male-invented cliches of
egocentric capitalistic right and homocentric socialistic left in the
political spectrum to form a new ecocentric cultural ethic based on
regional autonomy and true democracy.
Bottom Line:
*A moratorium on further exploitation of all remaining areas of natural
diversity - stop burning the Amazon and the rain forests of South East
Asia. *Stop felling virgin forest or clearing virgin ecosystems.
*An immediate world action plan to rescue all threatened habitats to be
contributed to by each nation in proportion to their GNP.
*International support for all peoples currently in ecologically sensitive
zones to avoid them having to engage in environmentally damaging activities
to survive and prosper.
*Stop polluting and over-fishing of the oceans.
*An immediate agreement for complete nuclear, biological and chemical world
disarmament, with all cost savings to go to direct aid to the
disadvantaged, so that inequity does not give rise to international
tension. No nuclear missiles except as a very small international defence
against asteroid or comet strike.
*Fully ratify the Global Biodiversity Convention, and effective limitations
on global warming emissions.
*International cooperative development of renewable energy technology based
on GNP-related investment in advance of the economic depletion of fossil
fuels.
*Debate the form of sustainable ecosystemic society through a transparent
gender-equitable accounting.
Feminine Apocalypse:
The millennial 'apocalypse' is, by definition, the 'unveiling' of the bride
- the end of the occlusion of the feminine and her sequestering and
repression. This bride is the feminine spirit, returning to her sacred
place of natural sustainability to complete our vision and to correct the
imbalance and oppression of the patriarchal cultural epoch. Until respect
for the feminine and for nature is restored to its sacred status, men will
continue to rape and plunder the earth in the name of science, of progress,
and of God. I thus ask all of you on this planet, male and female alike,
to respect the restoration of the feminine spirit of Wisdom and
sustainability.
"and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels"
As a male messenger of this feminine apocalypse I invite women of all walks
to meet together and with men of like mind in gathering empowerment to join
in discussing as widely, transparently and democratically as possible the
future nature of this "replanting" of sustainable ecosystemic human
culture. I believe it needs more than the gender tokenism of an equal
share of the vote, because somehow men generally pack the representation
deck even given "equal opportunity". The process needs equanimity of
representation of women at every stage, either by proportionate
representation or by gender consensus. Only by such a forward-looking
initiative now will we have a good prospect of a soft genetic landing next
century and a verdant world of diversity to save for our living future. I
am thus not here to lead, but to apologise to the womankind of the world
for their treatment over the last two millennia and the destruction wrought
upon the Earth by by mankind and to ask you to join in the sacred marriage
of the biosphere in reunion and in forgiveness so that our immortal living
heritage will be preserved.
Bottom Line:
*An immediate cessation of female circumcision and infibulation.
*Do not kill the girl child.
*Abolition of violent or lethal penaties for female infidelity.
*Freedom of dress, expression and decision-making for all women in all cultures.
*Removal of all social, religious and economic barriers to women receiving
a free, full and fair education so that we are all fully able to contribute
fully to empowering a nurturing and sustainable society.
*Equanimity of representation of women and/or gender consensus in all
future political and ethical decisions.
Social Justice:
No action on the world environment and ecosystem can be successful without
real and equitable social justice. To fulfil this agenda means freeing
people from bondage, particularly from political imprisonment and
repression, poverty and ill health, but also from their double-binds and
misconceptions - from the joint tyrannies of mechanism and fundamentalism,
from social programming through commercial advertising and other forms of
illusion and indoctrination.
"To proclaim liberty to the captives
and the opening of prison to them that are bound"
Poverty and hunger are prisons. While some people in the world consume
over 100 times the resources of others and live in luxury, most of the
world's people live in hunger and poverty. While the rich developed
nations enjoy ostensible democracy and human rights, most of the world's
people struggle simply to survive, often under the yoke of political and/or
gender oppression. While the rich of developed countries have their pick
of space-age medical techniques, people in the prison of poverty have
little or none. In caring for the health of the world, we also need to
care equitably for the health of each of us that are alive at a given
point in time. While the glaring economic inequities characterised by
"north and south" continue, economic colonialism remains a millstone to any
reconstruction of the natural environment. While the richer nations extract
natural resources from the underdeveloped world at cheap prices, nature is
squandered and population pressures continue because the demographic
transition is delayed along with rising living standards and full
education.
The egocentric ethics of capitalism does not adequately address the severe
inequalities that can and do arise in society from real differences in
opportunity. The foundation of a meaningful human society is caring:
"From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs".
The free-market ethic violates this principle of human caring by asserting:
"From each according to their resources to each according to their
investment". Social conscience is required to fulfil the agenda of social
responsibility. This conscience can only come from an ethic of love, not
only for one's kin and neighbour, but even for one's "enemies" - the Hapiru
or "outsiders" who lie beyond our domains of kin and reciprocal altruism.
Under the free-market ethic, taxation is minimised, social services to the
poor and needy are cut. Responsibility for social justice becomes a
voluntary indulgence of those rich and powerful people and nations who
choose to be altruistic. True social justice requires making consensus
economic sacrifices and political decisions which transform the egocentric
ethic of capitalism, without imposing a totalitarian homocentric ethic, as
has been the bane of communism. An ecocentric ethic is required for a
sustainable society. This requires a new socio-political synthesis which
can only be developed through ethical debate in a free society, not through
political manipulation and corporate control of the media. I am thus
calling for in-depth discussion on the form of ecocentric society to be
brought to Sakina for consideration.
Justice cannot come unless the rich nations are prepared to give fairly to
those of the poor and less developed nations. It is sheer hubris for the
so-called democratic electorates of developed countries such as the US to
campaign for less taxes while consuming the lions share of the world's
resources and begrudging any curbing of their CO2 emissions.
Bottom Line:
*A comprehensive world poverty plan which displays international compassion
and justice to all peoples regardless of nationality.
*Redistribute all available resources to the needy. No stockpiling for profit!
*Require all commercial advertisers dominating communications media to
contribute to free informational programs initiated by citizens groups
lying outside corporate influence.
*Free all prisoners of conscience including all political prisoners.
*Again I say free Tibet. Free Burma. Free the women of Afghanistan. Stop
the killing in Algeria, especially disembowelling pregnant women. Allow
free elections in China.
Free Market Genetics:
Much of the problem is sourced not in individual greed but in corporate
greed. Corporate transnational organizations have become a law unto
themselves which violate all principles of national sovereignty, regional
autonomy and grass-roots democracy. It is essential that the power of
transnational investment is subject to democratic scrutiny by the people of
this planet.
While western politicians espouse principles of electoral democracy,
international trade agreements are negotiated for the benefit of
transnational corporations who are not elected democratically, who command
and exploit the world's diminishing resources and dominate world media
without any direct accountability to the human population. Corporate
interests control the world economy in a way which now bypasses all
democratic electoral processes. World free-trade agreements result in a
net loss of national autonomy, particularly for smaller and less developed
economies in ways which their electorates have no power or control over.
Until such corporate organizations become democratically accountable to the
populations they serve, such treaties will simply remain instruments of
capital colonialism and serve to accelerate the exploitation of the
dwindling resources of the planet by the quickest to get to them and the
greediest.
The free-market is touted as a natural ecological vehicle of efficiency
through competition, but the free-market is not genetic, because company
law allows complete liquidation and re-direction of company investment.
Companies can thus escape accountability for damaging, exploitive behavior
because they do not contain the genetic principle which is essential to the
sustainability of survivors in a surviving biosphere. Without any genetic
principles, the free-market is dangerously prone to overshoot and
catastrophic rebound caused by rapid over-exploitation of resources to reap
short-term gain in advance of other players or regulatory protection. .
Bottom Line:
*Apply genetic principles to company law.
*Fundamental changes to law are required to establish a sustainable
ecocentric ethics in human society. These must make corporate organizations
democratically accountable to the people as well as to their shareholders.
Genetic Technology and Freedom of Information:
Two illustrations of how anti-democratic such activities can become are
indicative. Monsanto is busy buying up major world seed producers while
using coercive policies to force the adoption of patented
genetically-engineered seed stock resistant to its own brands of herbicide.
All such initiatives are taken without public request or advance ethical
debate, on the pretext of corporate trade secrets and intellectual property
rights. The effect is the planting of vast productive areas of the planet
with zero-diversity monoclones, severe loss of genetic diversity and
private ownership of our world heritage. While Bill Gates rightly opposed
the big-brother attempts of the Clinton administration to make world
encryption open to the US security agency, Microsoft is becoming a real
threat to the future freedom and independence of the internet - something
destined to become the 'noosphere', our one central expression of human
conscious interaction. This undercuts freedom of information and the
foundation of a democratic world society.
The issues of freedom of information and genetic technology are absolutely
pivotal to our future. Major changes which are crossing deep ethical
watersheds are being made in secret by companies for profit alone and are
not submitted in advance to society for any democratic process of ethical
consideration. Industry is able to apply sufficient influence to
government, particularly in the US, to bypass the electorate. Corporate
scientists attempt to bypass consumer opinion by claiming the consuming
public's ethical concerns are based on ignorance of the scientific issues,
religious misconceptions, or frankly that society will just have to accept
the inevitable onrush of progress in the development of genetic engineering
technology in a relentlessly changing world. This is frank intellectual
prostitution.
Many of these new technologies are likely to bring great benefit, but they
are being developed in a completely unethical, undemocratic and clandestine
way, which is by-passing the very social forward thinking that is essential
to prevent us falling into an evolutionary end-game and potential
extinction. The future ecological security of our food species is at
increasing risk. They are being replaced by non-viable, infertile and
engineered varieties and both the original genetic diversity and wild
habitats are being rapidly lost. Germ plasm banks cannot save our food
plant heritage alone.
Science lacks any intrinsic ethical qualities. For every scientific
ecologist trying to save the planet there is an unscrupulous genetic
engineer undoing their work in monoclonal gene tech products. Gene tech
depends on biodiversity for its genetic resources but is the single most
serious threat to biodiversity outside direct habitat destruction. It
raises completely new ethical issues relating to the very future of
evolution and the genetics of the human germ line, which cannot be dealt
with by scientists and industry and government experts alone on the
assumption of an ignorant general population.
Bottom Line:
*Corporations to present all genetic technology development proposals to
consumer ethics committees before proceeding with research and development.
*A moratorium on all patenting of genetic intellectual property rights
until the rights of all people to our genetic endowment and particularly
those peoples who have traditionally discovered and used these species have
been protected.
*Processes involving the human germ line which may alter our genetic future
subject to fully-informed, collective decision by society as a whole.
Keep the internet and all information media free for the political freedom
of humanity.
Healing Population:
World population is a very significant factor in both poverty and hunger
and in habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity. There is urgent need
to realize an abatement of population growth before we all suffer the
consequences severely next century. However the population problem is
complicated by severe economic and energy-consumption inequities. While
population growth in much of the developed world has declined or even
reversed as a result of the "demographic transition" accompanying higher
living standards and better education, the developing world is caught in a
vicious cycle of exploitation which results in poverty, hunger, lack of
education, population growth and habitat destruction. Population cannot
be addressed without addressing educational, gender, and economic inequity
between the developed and developing world.
Enforced population control measures, including sterilization often act
selectively against women and have also resulted in atrocious rates of
female abortion and infanticide, particularly in China, India and Korea.
Education, and empowerment of women are the key to informed, voluntary
non-destructive population abatement.
Proposals:
*Population measures aimed at voluntary contraception, education,
family-planning, empowerment of women to have autonomy over their own
fertility and reproductive process, and the providing of economic
circumstances in which full education and autonomy is possible.
*Religious patriarchs should publicly rescind harmful statements
encouraging population growth, such as those opposing contraception and
claiming sex is solely for procreation.
*Abortion remains a controversial issue of new medical technology, because
it presents an ethical continuum. It is a matter of individual conscience
which needs to be discussed further through continuing ethical debate,
rather than religious edict and violent conflict. Good education, free
access to contraception, responsible use and advance reproductive advice is
a constructive alternative.
CONTINUED .....
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Chaos is the Mother of Invention - Necessity the Offspring
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Chris KING, Phone: 0064-9-3737599 # 8818
Senior Lecturer Mathematics Fax: 0064-9-3737457
University of Auckland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Private Bag 92019 http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/
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