Water in the West

Hanh mitakuyapi.

I was reading headlines in Yahoo a few minutes ago and found this gem: "Human Activity Affects Water and Dryness in West". It refers to the western part of the US, of course. If this isn't a "duh-uh" headline, I don't know what is.

Humans have become a cancer in the biosphere, with their gross over-population over the past several decades. US humans consume more than any other humans on the planet, per capita, but every human contributes to this dire situation we have suddenly 'discovered'. New babies are no longer 'wonderful'. What each person does does matter. Hugely and with growing impact as time passes without population reduction of humans, along with everyone making heroic efforts to turn this juggernaut around to the degree that can be done, now. There is a 'time of no return'.. and we're just about on top of it.

Given that every blessed thing in the biosphere is limited, this is hardly a surprise, yet humans - especially in the 'advanced countries - continue to deny reality and ask, "is this real?" If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, and has manure like a duck's , I'd say it's about a 100% chance it's a duck. So, "yes, takoszja, this situation is real, and it is really dire, to boot." And there is no way to duck it. We. must. fix. it.

Gadjillion years ago when I was a child, I started hollering that humans were over-populating the earth; that we ITI People would be fighting for our water while the washichu in the big cities were stealing it and squandering it on things like golf course grass and "lawns" before I got old.

My teachers told me to be quiet. Bigots tried to beat me quiet. I got expelled from school for refusing to be quiet about this. It's simple common sense, after all. Obvious to all but the dedicatedly blind or stupid..

Suddenly, we have 'discovered' global warming and that human activity 'affects' the amount of water available to us all on this planet, not just in the US "west". Wow!

This isn't quantum physics, takoszja, although quantum physics studies the limitedness and limits of every physical aspect of life on our Holy Mother, the Earth..

This shouldn't even be 'news'. It is intuitively obvious, physically obvious, and depressingly obvious. Only a culture predicated on selfishness, greed, and brat behavior would call this news.

The question is, what are all you adults out there going to do about it, right now, so there is a tomorrow for the majority of species who share the beauty and bounty of our Holy Mother, the Earth, with us? A world without species other than humans will be not only pretty dull, it will be sterile, and in short order, lifeless except for those hardy survivor species that can survive the coming disasters. And they are coming.

As The Woman Who Dances The Four Winds, I ask everyone,"What have you done, today, to help heal the Sacred Hoop of the Earth, of which you, too, are a part?"

It's up to every one of us, including you. You are each part of the solution -- or part of the problem. There is no avoiding this fact or the repercussions of it. This is logic - not 'news'.