This is My Planet Too - A Poem



An image I created based on a photo of my shadow.

This is My Planet Too

Poem based on an Interview with Derrick Jensen.

Impending collapse

car culture running out of oil

nowhere to retreat

living in an abstract society

few have real life skills

are we doomed?

Collective denial

environmental crisis

on the news we hear instead

latest fashion

celebrity gossip

corporations control the planet

and you want to talk about sports?

Culture based on destroying the land

culture based on using up non renewable resources

culture based on a lie

the earth is a finite place

a life based on infinite resources cannot last

and you sit here watching a "reality" show

did you learn about reality?



The system is rigged against those who love the land

against those who care about future life

when environmentalists use an existing law to stop the destruction

the laws are changed by those in power

what meaning are laws if they are changed when convenient?

we live in a destructive culture

we live in a blind culture

to quiet us they feed us bright green lies

telling us solar panels and windmills

will bring relief to the environmental crisis

Did you see the open pit mine?

We will need more of those pits in order to build the structures

blow up all the mountains to sake your thirst for power

is that better than a polluted sky?

do you like the world better without its surface beauty?

do you like the taste of contaminated water?

If you lived on your own planet I wouldn't care

but this is my planet, too

there are trees, bees, butterflies

flowers, birds, elephants

do all the living things need to sacrifice their home

so you can turn on your lights?

We have to stop killing the planet

We have to find another way to live

or we won't be living at all.

Copyright Desert Dreamer

Deep Green Resistance - Statement of Principles

Finally, an environmental movement I can stand by with my entire being...it is as if I wrote these principles myself.  The land is waiting for the Deep Green Resistance, I can hear the Saguaro and the ancient Ironwood Trees asking us to join them in living.  I am glad to know that a few humans out there are listening to the land.

By Deep Green Resistance posted on May 8, 2011

Deep Green Resistance Statement of Principles. The soil, the air, the water, the climate, and the food we eat are created by complex communities of living creatures. The needs of those living communities are primary; individual and social morality must emerge from a humble relationship with the web of life.

2. Civilization, especially industrial civilization, is fundamentally destructive to life on earth. Our task is to create a life-centered resistance movement that will dismantle industrial civilization by any means necessary. Organized political resistance is the only hope for our planet.

3. The Deep Green Resistance movement works to end abuse at the personal, organizational, and cultural levels. The Deep Green Resistance movement aligns itself with feminists and others who seek to eradicate all social domination and to promote solidarity between oppressed peoples.

4. When civilization ends, the living world will rejoice. We must be biophilic people in order to survive. Those of us who have forgotten how must learn again to live with the land and air and water and creatures around us in communities built on respect and thanksgiving. We welcome this future.

Continue reading at: http://deepgreenresistance.org/principles/.

It is time to create art and poetry in the name of the Deep Green Resistance.  Below is my first computer generated art created to celebrate the birth of a new movement.