Igniting the Southwest.
This link will take you to OpEd News. That site published an opinion piece I wrote after the Fathers’ Day Inferno that burned the forests northeast of Flagstaff, just a bit north of where I used to live and where I hiked hundreds of miles. At first glance, this editorial doesn’t seem to address the topic of this blog. In fact it does, for it is just another example of the human-centered, human-dominated thinking and action that is consuming Nature.
Save the Peaks
Think of the hundreds of different world views and cultures that modern dominant society has trampled. Think of the loss of hundreds of different ways of seeing the Earth and the human relation to it. Think of the alternative worlds that could have arisen if greed and violence were not the main tenets of our society. The destruction of Nature is closely tied to the extirpation of native cultures.
I wrote an op-ed about what is happening in Flagstaff, Arizona as another example in the long sad tragic story of our treatment of native peoples everywhere.
A great honor was that several First Nation sites posted it:
IDRS, Inc http://indiandevelopment.wordpress.com/IDRS, Inc
and Indian Country Today.
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