Earth's biomass is breaking out in hives on this Earth Day.
Dear Fellow Earthlings,
The first time I ate fresh tomatoes right off the vine (when I was 8 years old), I loved their taste so much that I
consumed a dozen or so of those luscious, seed-gorged fruits, causing my body to break out in a rash known as
the "hives". I had to be whisked to a nearby emergency hospital for medical treatment.
Now, similarly, Earth's ecosystem is being afflicted by a "rash" of sorts, known as the Corona virus. Similar
to my body's reaction when it was forced to cope with an excessive amount of tomatoes, Earth's biomass is
reacting to the many excesses placed on it by people pursuing their various individual agendas.
Polluting the skies, polluting the waters, polluting the land, producing pollution that can be used to make more
plastic...
Traveling to places where there is no need to visit, packing into venues that are no more than huge sardine
cans...
The chief vector for the spread of COVID-19 is the human. The human, not unlike COVID-19, also seeks to
replicate itself at the expense of other living creatures of Earth. In an extreme form of betrayal to kerm Mother (Earth),
kee pollutes and destroys as kee "processes" natural things (resources) into human made concoctions: windmills, tennis
balls, seaports, airports, asphalted surfaces, beef cattle, and all of the other constituents of various earthscapes...
And now that humans have lost the concept of "distance" (as a result of the internet and the passenger jet) --
and that respect for time honored traditions is diminishing at an unheard of rate, a great many people move through
their lives picking out those things that interest each person on an individual basis -- and insisting that a human has
the right to change kerm manner of dealing with the world on kerm own terms -- as a matter of freedom of expression.
As for the rights of other people? Or, "less importantly", for all of the other living things on Earth? All to frequently,
the typical human falls back on such adages as "Nothing is really in my power anyway..." Or: "If something can't
survive the competition, then it deserves to lose out..."
Where is compassion? Respect for others? Respect for the weak? Concern for the beleaguered?
All too often, masses of humans determined to "control" everything and everyone around them, lead themselves into situations in which the very existence of life on Earth falls under the looming shadows of destruction, disease, disaster, diatribe, and DEATH.
As I hunker down on my land on Earth Day 2020, I pray that both humans and COVID-19 become less
destructive as they act out their roles played on Earth's vulnerable biomass stage!
Steve Walker
Earthsaver and Jingles Creator
© 2013 Steve Walker, The Jingles-The Japan Foundation for English Pronunciation, Summit Enterprises.