Here is an image of a West Virginia stream filled with poison after a natural gas corporation came in and had it's way with the area. A couple of nights ago I watched an excellent and terrifying documentary, Gasland. I have written a few articles here before about the natural gas industry, about hydraulic fracturing, about the 496+ lethal chemicals that are contaminating water bodies across this country, making many people sick, and murdering countless numbers of animals. If you want to know more about it, please watch Gasland. Director Josh Fox runs it all down brilliantly. I found out later the documentary made one of our children cry, as he watched the corporate criminals literally get away with murder, as he watched good people feeling absolutely helpless to stop them. For myself, I mostly felt anger. To see what these people get away with makes me fully support forms of militancy against the system. There are brave people out there who have the guts to stand up to these mother fuckers. Arsonists, saboteurs, etc. Right now there is a man that keeps destroying pipelines in Canada, demanding that the gas corporation Encana get the fuck out of the area. They have yet to catch him and are offering a reward of over one million dollars for his capture. These activists are heros, willing to risk decades in prison for the earth and it's people.
Why not support militancy? What other options are we given? The powers that be literally get away with poisoning children! Most environmental militants go out of their way to make sure their actions do not harm any human beings in any way. On the other hand, the people that run this system have so much blood on their hands its unbelievable. The U.S. sanctions on Iraq from 1990-2003 killed over 500,000 children! Who the fuck are the terrorists?!?!?
God damnit I can't stand how fucked up and malevolent this system is. Bear hunting season has begun here in Pocahontas County, WV. Yesterday morning we here at the farm woke early to work on a fencing project, and while working heard the sounds of barking dogs and vehicles tearing through the woods behind our property. Now, I am not against hunting at all. I personally eat meat and have been involved in the slaughter and dressing of some of our animals here on the farm. I absolutely despise industrial factory farming, but I do believe you can kill and consume an animal with respect. But back to the bear hunters, a good chunk of them hunt in the most diabolical of ways. They sit in their trucks while their dogs, who have radio beacons hooked up to their collars, chase a bear, sometimes for tens of miles. The bear runs for it's life for hours until finally, when the creature is just too exhausted, the hunter shows up and blows it away. Some fucking hunter.
I think there are many beautiful human beings all over the world. Unfortunately, there are also complete psychopaths. There are power hungry, murdering, lying, cheating, double dealing, sick men running around all over the planet looking for the next innocent life form to destroy, to rob, to cheat, to exterminate. 120 species go extinct every day. This is such a large and serious problem, and I have no idea how to stop it. The world really is run by psychopaths, and I believe if we don't stop them somehow, they will destroy almost all life on this planet. We have to band together and stop this. We have to.
Stopping them can involve a lot of things. I am not at all Mr. Pro-violence. They must be stopped in as sane a manner as possible. I think it will take many different efforts coming together to actually save the planet, from internal philosophical change in human beings to physical change of the current power structure. But I will support those who stand up to power in whatever way I can.
This post has two videos. The first is a very serious clip from a new film coming out called End : Civ. It deals with the seriousness of this situation and what we should do about it. The next video is a trailer for Gasland. Stay well friends. Keep thinking, feeling, and fighting.
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