Rainforest Protection Issues

EARTH MEANDERS: Raping Kids and Earth

2012-05-14T22:23:04Z

What kind of sickos destroy children and ecosystems? Well actually, a surprising number do. Most are against both types of victimization of innocence and purity - as long as you don�t talk or do anything about it when it happens.

By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk

Earth is so beautiful, so perfect in its intimate interconnectivity, as are humans in their ability to create and transcend, to pass down knowledge, love, and ecological habitat to our children. Yet we know �especially direct victims of childhood rape and ecocide � that Earth and her humanity are filled with a dark, narcissistic self-destructiveness as well.

Two of the very worst evils stalking the land are those who sexually abuse children, and those who wage ecocide upon ecosystems. In fact, they are two sides of the same coin. This is going to be a deeply revealing and challenging essay. If you don�t think freely with an open mind; and are, well, dumb and insensitive, you may not want to try.

]]> Earth and childhood innocence are two of the most profoundly truthful things ever. Yet humanity�s increasingly predatory nature threatens both. The urge to penetrate and destroy the souls of old forests and young children are a grotesque perversion, illustrating the evil that exists � within depraved soulless modernity � cut off from community, nature, and knowledge of right-living.

One of the worst aspects of both childhood sexual and ecocidal abuse is the extent to which talking about these pervasive and perverse ills are taboo. There are other similarities. Both desecrate what is good, loving, truthful, and required for continued human and natural life by dirty, ugly, vulgar, and deathly power. There is of course the penetration � the perverse, evil desire by some to place their drill in warm and wet crevasses to extract energy while destroying the energy source.

Logging primary forests is very similar to raping children both in moral terror and lasting horrific consequences � the difference is largely only one of scale. The rhythmic pounding of the chainsaw into ancient forests reminds me of being raped. The same impulses that lead us to unquestionably destroy 60 million year old ecosystems for lawn furniture are on display as children are treated like flotsam, indeed trafficked as a commodity, for momentary ejaculatory self-gratification.

I was terribly sexually abused as a child, and have only recently emerged � damaged but mostly recovered � from the acts, the cover-up, and the continued demands by perpetrators and their protectors for silence. Being sodomized and forced to participate in sex acts by an Uncle were horrific enough. But even more detrimental, hurtful, and damaging to my development as a fully actualized human-being was an entire childhood growing up in an environment where my father was routinely sexually abusing a sibling, and where sexual abuse was epidemic in the extended family.

Growing up in a home rife with sexual energy directed at children is devastating, the degree of which was only fully revealed to me as an adult. I look back and realize how these criminal acts � sexual abuse, titillating sexual contact, man boy sex, and a massive cover-up blaming the victims � change your whole way of viewing the world. I am now clear � during what was otherwise a decent upbringing � I and others around me were dramatically and permanently impacted upon by the sexual crimes and cover-ups as family roles, boundaries, and sexual morals didn�t exist. Speaking openly on such matters helps me with my mostly completed yet always tenuous recovery.

I was also born onto a dying planet, where ecocidal and wide ranging human psychosis � destroying all that is natural, good, truthful and life-affirming � is hailed as advancement and development. The personal victimization I experienced occurs daily on a local, regional and global scale as ecosystems that provide for our water, air, food and culture are brutally pillaged � along with all their bounteous life �without regard to anything but the lust for profit. As a trained ecologist, I am privy to Earth�s historic rape in every tarnished ecosystem I see, as I bear witness to Gaia�s and our death.

Earth is routinely ripped open with over-eager, hammy hands, reaching between her legs for treasures that should remain buried. Old forests are not meant to be logged for toilet paper, nor are gas and oil to be ripped from deep within Gaia�s body to poison the air life breathes. Humanity�s long-time rape of the natural world is killing Earth and will result in all life�s final demise unless the ecocidal rapists are stopped � using all means necessary.

The next frontiers in civil rights and natural law are allowing nature, animals, and ecosystems to exist without threat of ecocide, and stopping the rape of our children. Some things need to end because they are objectively wrong and against continued truthful and sacred existence. Much of the abuse and harm we do to others is the result of abuse done to us, and everyone needs to break the cycle. Healthy children and ecosystems are needed simply for Earth and civilization � such as it is � to survive, much less continue to advance and thrive.

I am not looking for pity or making excuses, I just want it to stop � the silence, the lies, and the protecting of family reputations over justice for the abused, and the shame being redirected and falling upon the abusers. The belief that I could not, must not tell � that I was voiceless as I remained a silent victim in both regards � was deeply engrained as I and others are groomed to be sexual playthings of the powerful adults we love on a dying Earth.

Those concerned with children and ecology � whether victims yourself or not � must turn the focus back upon the perpetrators, and stop being victims of crimes that were no fault of your own. The shame belongs squarely upon the perps, and this will only happen when we talk of the evils of penetrating children and ecosystems. Abusive destruction of childhood innocence and life-giving ecosystems must be stopped � again � using all means necessary.

I really have little patience or desire to hear from people the same banalities of "get over it", "forgive", "move on". Anyone who as a child had their trust ripped away as they were raped and sodomized by those that said they loved them knows the permanent damage it causes, and I will not be silenced. I hope forgiveness comes, but not until responsibility is taken by the guilty, and the victimization ends.

It is not all right to rape and sexually arouse children, and I�m not going away, and holding my silence to protect the perpetrators any longer. I am not going away or stopping talking about the rape of Earth and children because it may make you feel uncomfortable talking about it.

About a year ago � after years of being rebuffed, put down, estranged from, and shamed by family members for asking what they knew about my abuse � I informed my small family that I would no longer remain silent about being raped and dealing with consequences of other family members around me being raped.

No longer would I be the victim, living in quivering shamed silence, because my uncle forced me into group sex with an aunt when I was five. Or stop trying to understand my memories of being sodomized with objects by the same uncle, and fondled and sexually aroused by just about any relative that wanted to cop a feel.

I would speak honestly of what it meant to grow up in a household where sexual abuse was routine, about how it changed all the family dynamics, led to over-compensation to get attention, and caused me other lasting developmental harm that I still struggle to overcome. And that I would continue to seek out information regarding who had done this to others and me, who knew � and were and are protecting the perpetrators � and why upon coming forth I am subjected to a whole new round of abusive victimization.

One family member in particular � my brother-in-law � feels justified in routinely threatening me if I speak publicly about having been sexually abused as a child, how it ran rampant in my family, or refuse to keep family secrets. Apparently as a victim of childhood rape, I do not own my body, my history, or my voice. Anyone thinking I will be silenced on these matters is deeply misled. Nor will I allow myself to be damaged by the victimization foisted upon me by other less grounded in the Earth and connected to the humanity of its most small, weak and hope-filled people.

The message of this essay is to call upon each of us to protect what is sacred and good in the next generation and their ecological habitat. It is these sorts of abuse � that we expect others to bear, unsupported, in silence and shame � that cause so much of Earth�s ills. Childhood and ecocidal abuse must be spoken of until there is justice and resolution, until they are ended for a more just, fair, and sustainable world.

Ecological Internet: Small Is Beautiful

2012-05-08T21:23:43Z

2012 Mid-Year Fund-Raising Launch - http://climateark.org/shared/donate/

Dear Earth friends,

There is nothing like Ecological Internet on Earth, for Earth. For two decades this lean, highly effective effort has pioneered the use of the Internet for ecological protection. Our half a million strong global network has facilitated hundreds of environmental victories through online protest, biocentric advocacy tools, and sharing of deep green thought. Together we are having the same or greater impact for Earth as much larger organizations, without the greenwash.

Today we launch our 13th annual mid-year fund-raiser to continue doing so. Together we must raise a minimum of $25,000 to pay for staffing, computers and bandwidth. Will you please donate $10, $35, $100 or what you can afford � right away � to get us started? http://climateark.org/shared/donate/

]]> Ecological Internet has proven decisively that it is not the size of the environmental group that matters; it is size of the ecology vision and fight, and dedication to ecologically sufficient policy to sustain global ecology. Now is the time for you to support one of the Earth�s most important voices for biocentric policy � such as ending old forest logging, fossil fuels, and industrial growth - adequate to sustain Earth�s ecosystems.

Small � ecological science-based, people power environmental activism � is beautiful, and just more effective that the corporatist environmental movement.

Ecological Internet and I are honored to serve global ecology by speaking on Earth�s behalf. These efforts epitomize selfless service to sustain Earth's ecology, human family, and all life. I have built Ecological Internet through decades of extreme personal sacrifice, including taking on considerable debt, and I need your financial help to move forward.

Please support Ecological Internet at http://climateark.org/shared/donate/ as we fund-raise until the goal is met. And please understand that public broadcasting type appeals like this allow us to raise funds unencumbered by special interests and greenwash. In subsequent appeals we look forward to sharing our big plans moving forward, and to meeting and surpassing this modest financial goal together.

For Earth,
Dr. Glen Barry

P.S. Your tax-deductible gift of $50 or what you can afford will keep the loudest, most persistent voice for Earth � and policies needed to sustain global ecology � online and running at full speed. For the cost of less than one big NGO staff person, you will continue Ecological Internet�s speaking of ecological truth to power. You, Earth and I will be glad that you donate to sustain global ecology right now! http://climateark.org/shared/donate/

ALERT! End Old-Growth Temperate Rainforest Logging in Alaska�s Tongass National Forest

2012-04-29T18:58:00Z

TAKE ACTION to protect key Asian elephant habitats and their ecosystems

TAKE ACTION!

It is time to end US old-growth logging, most of which exists in Alaska�s Tongass National Forest [search]. Please urge the federal government to see the salmon and ecosystems through the dwindling old-growth trees for timber, and shift the focus from logging to an ecological protection economy in Earth�s largest temperate rainforest. With only 0.5% of Tongass�s old-growth remaining � the last areas still containing very large 300-800 year old trees � it is unconscionable that the United States of America continues with proposals to log these last tiny patches. If proposals to further log Tongass� last old forests advance, it further clearly illustrates the United States has zero international credibility on issues of primary forest protection, climate change, and policy to achieve global ecological sustainability.

EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist

2012-04-16T14:36:03Z

How environmental groups gone bad greenwash logging Earth�s last primary old forests

Essay by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk

The world�s pre-eminent environmental organizations, widely perceived as the leading advocates for rainforests and old growth, have for decades been actively promoting primary forest logging [search]. Groups like Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Environmental Defense Fund actively promote industrially logging Earth�s last old forests. Through their support of the existing �Forest Stewardship Council� (FSC), and/or planned compromised �Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation� (REDD), they are at the forefront of destroying ancient forests for disposable consumer items � claiming it is �sustainable forest management� and �carbon forestry�.

Rainforest movement corruption is rampant as these big bureaucratic, corporatist NGOs conspire to log Earth's last primary rainforests and other old growth forests. Collectively the �NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs� are greenwashing FSC�s destruction of over 300,000,000 acres of old forests, destroying an area of primary rainforests and other old forests the size of South Africa (two times the size of Texas)! FSC and its members have built a massive market for continued business as usual industrially harvested primary forest timbers � with minor, cosmetic changes � certifying as acceptable murdering old forests and their life for consumption of products ranging from toilet paper to lawn furniture. Some 70% of FSC products contain primary forest timbers, and as little as 10% of any product must be from certified sources.

]]> FSC has become a major driver of primary forest destruction and forest ecological diminishment. Despite certifying less than 10% of the world�s forest lands, their rhetoric and marketing legitimizes the entire tropical and old growth timber trade, and a host of even worse certifiers of old forest logging. It is expecting far too much for consumers to differentiate between the variety of competing and false claims that old growth timbers are green and environmentally sustainable � when in fact none are. While other certification schemes may be even worse, this is not the issue, as industrial first-time primary forest logging cannot be done ecologically sustainably and should not be happening at all. FSC�s claims to being the best destroyer of primary forests is like murdering someone most humanely, treating your slaves the best while rejecting emancipation, or being half pregnant.

To varying degrees, most of the NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs also support the United Nations� new "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation" program (UNREDD, REDD, or REDD+), originally intended to protect Earth's remaining and rapidly diminishing primary rainforests and other old forests, by making "avoided deforestation" payments to local forest peoples as an international climate and deforestation solution. Large areas of primary and old-growth forests were to be fully protected from industrial development, local communities were to both receive cash payments while continuing to benefit from standing old forests, and existing and new carbon was to be sequestered.

After years of industry, government and NGO forest sell-out pressure, REDD+ will now fund first time industrial primary rainforest logging and destruction under the veil of "sustainable forest management" and "carbon forestry". REDD+ is trying to be all things to everybody � forest logging, protection, plantations, carbon, growth � when all we need is local funding to preserve standing forests for local advancement, and local and global ecology; and assurances provided REDD+ would not steal indigenous lands, or be funded by carbon markets, allowing the rich to shirk their own emissions reductions.

Sustainable forest management in old forests is a myth and meaningless catchphrase to allow continued western market access to primary rainforest logs. Both FSC and now REDD+ enable destruction of ancient naturally evolved ecosystems � that are priceless and sacred � for throw away consumption. Increasingly both FSC and REDD+ are moving towards certifying and funding the conversion of natural primary forests to be cleared and replanted as plantations. They call it carbon forestry and claim it is a climate good. Even selective logging destroys primary forests, and what remains is so greatly ecologically reduced from first time industrial logging, that they are on their way to being plantations.

Naturally evolved ancient forests are sacred and primeval life giving shrines, and standing and intact, large and contiguous primary rainforest and other old forests are a requirement for sustaining global ecology and achieving local advancement. Old forests are a vital part of the biosphere's ecological infrastructure � and have a prominent, central role in making the Earth habitable through their cycling of carbon, energy, water, and nutrients. Planetary boundaries have been exceeded, we have already lost too many intact terrestrial ecosystems, and what remains is inadequate to sustain global ecology.

Primary rainforests cannot be logged in an ecologically sustainable manner; once logged � selectively, certified, legally or not � for throw-away consumer crap, their primary nature is destroyed, and ecological composition and dynamics are lost forever. What remains is permanently ecologically diminished in terms of composition, structure, function, dynamics, and evolutionary potential. Logged primary forests' carbon stores, biodiversity and ecosystems will never be the same in any reasonable time-span. Selective, industrially logged primary rainforests become fragmented, burn more and are prone to outright deforestation.

Primary forest logging is a crime against Earth, the human family and all life - and those doing the logging, profiting and greenwashing the ecocide are dangerous criminals - who must be stopped and brought to justice. There is a zero chance of protecting and ending first time industrial logging of primary rainforests when the NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs say it is sustainable, even desirable, and continue to greenwash FSC old growth timber markets � now to be expanded with potential REDD funding � providing crucial political cover and PR for forest ecocide through their presence in the organizations.

Each of the named organizations� forest campaigns are a corrupt shell of their former selves � acting unethically and corruptly � destroying global ecology and local options for advancement, for their own benefit. The rainforest logging apologists have chosen power, prestige and money coming from sitting at the old forest logging mafia's table, gathering the crumbs fallen from the table to enrich their empires, rather than the difficult yet necessary job of working to fully protect rainforests and other primary forests from industrial development.

WWF, Greenpeace, and RAN are particularly culpable. With rainforests threatened as never before, RAN targets the Girl Scouts, Greenpeace supports Kleenex�s clearcut of Canadian old growth boreal forests for toilet paper, and WWF runs a bad-boy logger club who pay $50,000 to use the panda logo while continuing to destroy primary forests.

The only way this NGO old forest greenwash logging machine will be stopped is to make doing so too expensive to their corporate bureaucracies in terms of lost donations, grants, and other support � whose sources are usually unaware of the great rainforest heist. Ecological Internet � the rainforest campaign organization I head � and others feel strongly, based upon the urgency of emerging ecological science, and our closeness to global ecological collapse, that it is better to fight like hell in any way we can to fully protect and restore standing old forests as the most desirable forest protection outcome. Greenwash of first time industrial primary forest logging must be called out wherever it is occurring, and resisted by those in the global ecology movement committed to sustaining local advancement and ecosystems from standing old forests. There is no value in unity around such dangerous, ecocidal policy.

Despite tens of thousands of people from around the world asking these pro-logging NGOs to stop their old forest logging greenwash, none of the organizations (who routinely campaign against other forest destroyers, making similar demands for transparency and accountability) feel obligated to explain in detail � including based upon ecological-science � how logging primary forests protects them. Nor can they provide any detailed justification � or otherwise defend � the ecology, strategy and tactics of continued prominent involvement in FSC and REDD primary forest logging. They clearly have not been following ecological science over the past few years, which has made it clear there is no such thing as ecologically sustainable primary forest logging, and that large, old, contiguous, un-fragmented and fully ecologically intact natural forests are critical to biodiversity, ecosystems, and environmental sustainability.

We must end primary and other old forest logging for full community protection and restoration. The human family must protect and restore old forests � starting by ending industrial-scale primary forest logging � as a keystone response to biodiversity, ecosystem, climate, food, water, poverty and rights crises that are pounding humanity, ecosystems, plants and animals. There is no such thing as well-managed, sustainable primary forest logging � first time industrial harvest always destroys naturally evolved and intact ecosystems.

Humanity can, must and will � if it wishes to survive � meet wood product demand from certified regenerating and aging secondary growth and non-toxic, native species plantations. Humanity must meet market demand for well-managed forest timbers by certifying only 1) small-scale community eco-forestry practiced by local peoples in their primary forests (at very low volumes for special purposes and mostly local consumption), 2) regenerating and aging secondary forests regaining old-growth characteristics, and 3) non-toxic and mixed species plantations under local control. Further, reducing demand for all timber and paper products is key to living ecologically sustainably with old forests.

Local community development based upon standing old forests including small scale eco-forestry is fine. Small scale community eco-forestry has intact primary forests as its context for seed and animal sources, and management that mimics natural disturbance and gap species establishment. It is the industrial first time logging � selective logging, defined as selecting all merchantable, mature trees and logging them� turning primary forests into plantations, that is problematic. The goal must remain to maximize the extent, size, and connectivity of core primary forest ecosystems, to maximize global and local ecosystem processes, and local advancement and maintained well-being from standing old forests.

By dragging out the forest protection fight on a forest by forest basis, until ecological collapse becomes publicly acknowledged and society mobilizes, we can hold onto more ecosystems, biodiversity, and carbon than logging them a tiny bit better now. Soon � as abrupt climate change and global ecosystem collapse become even more self-evident � the human family will catch up with the ecological science and realize old forest destruction and diminishment must end as we ramp up natural regeneration and ecological restoration of large, connected natural forests adequate to power the global ecosystem. As society awakens to the need to sustain the biosphere, having as many intact ecosystems for models and seed sources for restoration as possible will be key to any sort of ecology and human recovery.

Rainforest protection groups engaged in greenwashing primary forest logging (an oxymoron misnomer if ever there was one), particularly while offering no defense of doing so, while raising enormous sums for rainforest �protection�, must be stopped. We must continue to call upon all big NGOs to resign from FSC and REDD, and join us in consistently working to end primary forest logging, and protect and restore old forests. Until they do, they must be boycotted and their funding cut off � even if this impacts other good works they may do, as old forests are such a fundamental ecological issue � until they stop greenwashing the final destruction of primary forests. And it is past time for their supporters to end their memberships as ultimately these big NGO businesses are more concerned with their image and money than achieving global forest policy that is ecologically sufficient, truthful, and successful.

As a rainforest movement, we must return to the goal of a ban on industrially harvested primary forest timbers. This means continuing to resist and obstruct old forest harvest, businesses (including NGO corporate sell-outs) involved, timber marketing, transportation, storage, milling, product construction, product marketing, and consumption. The entire supply chain for ecocidal primary forest timbers must be destroyed. More of us must return to the forests to work with local communities to build on-the-ground desire and capacity for ecologically inspired advancement from standing old forests, and physically obstructing old forest logging. We must make stolen, ill-gotten old wood from life-giving ecosystems an unacceptable taboo, like gorilla hand ash-trays, only worse. Together we must make old forest revolution.

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ALERT! Indonesian Oil Palm Fires Threaten Important Orangutan Population with Extirpation

2012-04-01T13:30:47Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

TAKE ACTION to stop the massacre of Tripa�s orangutans

In a global tragedy for wildlife, rainforests and ecosystem sustainability; rainforest peat fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could finish killing off within weeks about 200 orangutans in an important rainforest habitat [search] in western Indonesia. The Tripa swamp rainforest in Aceh, Indonesia � home to one of the largest remaining populations of wild orangutans in the world � is ablaze as palm oil companies rush to clear forests before a court case stops their plantation expansion. Up to 100 of an already much diminished population may have been killed in recent months, and unless the land grabs and rainforest burning are immediately stopped, the local population of critically endangered Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) may soon go locally extinct, and the whole species soon thereafter.

TAKE ACTION
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=orangutan_oilpalm

ALERT! Congo's Rainforests � Including Gorilla Rich Virunga National Park - Targeted by UK�s SOCO Oil Company

2012-03-22T17:37:13Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!

The Congo Basin [search]� home to some of Earth�s last large, ecologically intact, biodiversity rich rainforests � may soon be decimated by oil rigs, pipelines, deforestation, and oil spills. SOCO International � a London-listed oil company � has announced oil exploration plans in Virunga National Park - Africa�s oldest national park. Virunga is an UNESCO World Heritage site, home to a large population of wild gorillas, and many other important wildlife species, ecosystems, and local forest-dependent communities.

Oil exploration in these globally vital rainforest ecosystems will further set a dangerous precedent that nowhere � whether protected, or ecologically and socially important - is immune from oil industry destruction. Given record oil prices and growing global demand, it appears every last bit of Earth's large, wild and intact ecosystems will be sacrificed to industrial development � to extend our dependence upon fossil fuel, and delay transition now to renewable energy sources � while ensuring abrupt run-away climate change and global ecosystem collapse. Further rainforest ecocide for oil must end if we are to sustain global ecology. And standing old forests offer hope for advancement to the world�s forest dependent peoples.

TAKE ACTION
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/sendsm.aspx?id=congo_oil_virunga

RELEASE: Top Earth Scientists Warn of Global Ecological Emergency

2012-02-27T00:27:13Z

Ecological Internet � leading provider of Internet biocentric ecology news, action and analysis � joins with Earth�s best scientists in warning the human family faces imminent collapse of the biosphere � the thin layer of life organized into ecosystems � that makes Earth habitable and human well-being possible.

From Earth's Newsdesk and New Earth Rising, projects of Ecological Internet (EI)
Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet, glen.barry@gmail.com, +1 (608) 381-5865 for interviews

(Madison, WI) - Ecological Internet (EI) reiterates its declaration of a planetary ecological emergency [1], first issued two years ago. Since then abrupt climate change [search] has revealed itself in all its fury, habitat loss and extinction have intensified, food and water have become increasingly scarce, and human inequity and injustice have grown. Yet there have also been promising signs of a global awakening regarding global ecology, rights, and workers � seeds of revolutionary social change necessary to sustain global ecology.

�There is no question global ecological systems are collapsing, as important planetary ecological boundaries have been � and continue to be � crossed. The human system�s fantastical growth, based upon liquidating nature, has finally caught up with us, and key ecosystems necessary to sustain global ecology are failing,� explains Dr. Barry. �An Eco-Earth Revolution to overthrow the industrial economic growth machine destroying ecosystems may well be the only option left to sustain global ecology.�

]]> This past week the world�s leading international Earth scientists issued their own similar warning � that we face a perfect storm of ecological and social problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption and environmentally damaging technologies. In a paper prepared for the upcoming Rio+ 20 Earth Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June, they also noted the failures of the economic �perpetual growth myth� and called for �dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization� [2].

Ecological Internet�s first declaration was based upon scientific findings in �Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity,� published in 2009 in the journal Ecology and Society [3]. Humanity was found to have already overstepped three of nine planetary boundaries � biodiversity loss, climate change and nitrogen cycle � and to be approaching boundaries for the use of fresh water and land, and ocean acidification. An overwhelming amount of other scientific knowledge supports these warnings.

Dr. Barry continues: �Ecological Internet calls for an immediate people�s power Earth Revolution on behalf of Earth, all life, and the human family. Revolutionary actions � composed of billions of acts of personal resistance to the industrial growth machine � are required to end coal and tar sands, dismantle industrial agriculture, and protect and restore old forests and other natural ecosystems. These are some of the requirements for living well within the biosphere�s carrying capacity.�

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[1] First made on April 13, 2010, Planetary Ecological Emergency Declared.
[2] Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act
[3] Journal Article: Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity

For more information see http://www.ecoearth.info/ and discuss at http://facebook.com/EcoInternet

EARTH MEANDERS: On Violence and Earth Revolution

2012-01-31T11:46:03Z

Imagining the human family coming together to take well considered, decisive, and minimally or non-violent action to sustain global ecology

By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk

Human Family�s Ecocidal Death Wish

The ecological foundation of being is unraveling before our very eyes. Without ecosystems there is no life. Fiercely loving Earth is the answer. Let's sustain global ecology together like our shared survival and abundance depends upon it. And while we set out using classic civil disobedience tactics, let�s not dismiss out of hand any obstruction, uncivil disobedience, sabotage and targeted insurgency tactics � that are non-terrorist � and that may be necessary to achieve global ecological sustainability. The human family�s shared survival depends upon passionately defending Earth using all means necessary.

Earth's ecosystems are collapsing under the burden of human growth, destroying our one shared biosphere that makes life possible. Industrial growth � frantically destroying ecosystems to feed insatiable, ever-growing appetites � is an aberration, a mistake, a disease. If left untreated, this will be the end of the human family, all life, and Earth's very being. Infinite economic growth at the expense of ecosystems is impossible, and seeking endless and inequitable growth in consumption and population can only lead to collapse and massive die-off.

Humanity�s last best chance to justly and equitably sustain a livable planet is to protect and restore ecosystems, end fossil fuels, and a people's power Earth revolution to utterly destroy the ecocidal industrial growth machine. We are all bloody fools to tolerate and not immediately overthrow a violently ecocidal system that is killing us all. If we all understood the implications of global ecosystem collapse, we would go now, together, and slay the global growth machine. It is too late to escape profound ecological decline, yet complete disastrous social and ecological collapse � and possible end to most or all life � may yet be avoided.

Sustaining ecology must become society�s central organizing principle or humans and all species face horrendous death. Globally it is time for radical change to simply survive converging ecology, food, war, water, inequity, population, climate, jobs, ocean, and extinction crises. It is deeply troubling most "environmentalists" deny the severity of ecosystem collapse, rejecting out of hand revolutionary measures sufficient to sustain ecology.

]]> Earth is dying a death of a billion lashes as ecosystems are liquidated for consumption as if nature has no worth. 80% of old forests are gone, 50% of top soil, 90% of big ocean fish, bee populations are collapsing, we are undergoing abrupt climate change, and two billion are hungry and thirsty � to say nothing of acidic and dead oceans, nitrogen pollution, fracking and tar sands, extinction, desertification, water scarcity, pervasive toxics, and how all these ecological crises interact and reinforce each other.

Yes, you read this right � EARTH IS DYING � not that humans are going extinct, but Earth will recover. A whole body of global change and ecology science and intuition indicates Earth is well past its carrying capacity and planetary boundaries, that enough ecosystems have been lost, diminished, and changed forever, that the biogeochemical process that make life possible are failing. We face an unprecedented planetary ecological emergency.

Earth�s ecology crises go unaddressed because of lack of justice, equity and rights �and 1% elite rule with big NGO environmental group greenwash. Earth is dying NOW. The thin layer of life known as the biosphere is collapsing NOW. Life giving ecosystems are being destroyed NOW. Being is ending NOW. It could be different if we acted together to stop the forces of ecocide. The human family embraces a sustaining ecology ethic, or all die brutal, needless deaths, gasping for air, hungry and cold, at each other�s throats.

Most of us have lost contact with Earth that made and sustains us, so we kill our creator, life and ourselves without knowing or caring. It is everybody�s responsibility to stop this self-fulfilling death wish. Those who have yet to have this ecological revelation and are killing Earth must be compelled to stop, using all means necessary. There is no escaping the ECOLOGICAL FACT that global ecosystems and our one shared biosphere are literally falling apart as we continue to incautiously pull pieces from them.

Don�t Ever Say Never to Earth Revolution

True peace is not the absence of conflict as enslaved and hurdling towards mass ecocidal death. Peace is rights, equity, justice, jobs, sustainability � for which we sometimes must judiciously fight. It is ridiculous to suggest that these pernicious trends in ecological destruction � caused by industrial economic growth, which is nearly universally accepted and enriches the powerful 1% elite � will end without a full-scale people's power revolution � with all available tactics readied for if, and when, needed � by a small but enlightened and dedicated minority.

NO one seeks or desires violent revolution, yet Earth is dying, and we need to enter into revolution with all intentions of using civil and disobedient means, but if necessary we may need to cross the Rubicon and embrace uncivil and more confrontational means. Never before has such fundamental social change � challenging the deeply entrenched industrial growth paradigm, and the more is always better growth mentality, eating Earth�s ecosytems � been attempted.

A time may well come soon when it is necessary to use all means necessary against real eco-terrorists � those who are destroying with impunity our shared global ecosystems and our one biosphere, which make life possible and are necessary simply to survive.

All enlightened planetary life wants and deserves an Earth Revolution that is done wisely, escalates carefully, and is ultimately successful in bringing humanity and Earth�s ecosystems back into equilibrium. We of course want the right resistance, exerted by the right people, at the right time, calling for the right things. And as defenders of Earth and all life�s being � we find all violence repugnant, and do not seek any violence ever. But the stakes are high and we are not leaving any possibilities off the table, except for random terrorist targeting of innocents, which would not be tolerated.

Some people are simply taken aback � after several decades of being indoctrinated that civil disobedience is the only legitimate resistance to oppression and imminent death � and are unable to even hear and consider these academic thoughts. Yet, I do not recall ever reading words from Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi saying never, ever, ever will there be another instance where physical confrontation may be necessary or tolerable.

Both Gandhi and King provided a great service in making clear non-violent protest is always the preferable option, and that a great deal can be accomplished over time wielding this powerful tool. But they did not foreclose upon ever using traditional revolutionary activities in times of great danger, when it is thought there is not time, exclusively peaceful tactics have not worked, and when life�s very being is imminently threatened.

A faith-based movement � as was the basis for both King and Gandhi�s struggles � to bring people power to bear upon global ecology sustainability will not work as the primary motivator of the profound social change necessary to sustain ecology. Organized religion is simply too divisive, and bereft of knowable truth, to address what are fact-based, scientific ecological crises.

Organized religion is part and parcel of the history of ecological decline. It is vital to prospects for achieving just and equitable global ecological sustainability that all mythical gods be kept out of government, are made to tread lightly upon Earth, are kept off non-believers� bodies, and remain within the realm of personal faith. Sustaining ecology must depend upon other more truthful and observable sensibilities such as global land, ecology, family, justice, equity, knowledge, and community ethics.

In fact, these two singular men � whose faith based movements brought about important social change � nonetheless have very little to say to inform the necessary dramatic changes needed now to achieve global ecological sustainability. The issues are different, the stakes higher, and the urgency greater. A single charismatic figure appealing to one religious tradition or another is not going to rise to bring Earth to ecological sustainability � our dependence upon destroying ecosystems to meet our desires is too deeply entrenched.

Earth Revolution has to come from the people globally. What is needed is a revolutionary Earth sentiment that arises organically from the people. Earth Revolution aiming to equitably and justly sustain global ecology would be well advised to first go through an escalating serious of protest tactics until a well-developed, and sufficient set of demands are met or rebuffed. If the latter, change of the magnitude necessary in a very short time may well come only from an empowered minority practicing leaderless resistance tactics based upon an underground cell structure.

People globally would participate in such an Earth insurgency to the degree and using tactics that are consistent with their conscience. It is common sense when you lose the ability to sustain yourself � through despotism, ecocide or injustice � that you have the right, indeed a duty, to defend ourselves. If enough people � perhaps 3% of the human family � all at once rushed and destroyed the sources of ecocidal power � Earth, humanity, and all life could be saved with very little if any violence.

Things would be difficult for the formerly rich (broadly defined as those living detached from nature in a comfortable but Earth destroying technological cocoon, including much of the global bourgeoisie) for some time � as they readjust to living within ecological limits. But they would adjust, and all could survive leading simpler, more grounded and meaningful lives, rather than face a final and brutally violent apocalyptic end under the status quo.

To refuse to even consider more robust revolutionary tactics � which for many have brought freedom, and ended monarchy, slavery and other ills � to protect all life's shared survival from global ecocide in the short time we have, is copping out on Earth and virtually assuring an end to being.

Non-Cooperation, Obstruction, Sabotage, Insurgency

The timing for Earth Revolution is so right: Earth is dying, people are suffering, species are going, freedom is failing, uber-inequity reigns, economic injustice is the norm, yet people are awakening. There has never been such high hope regarding the prospects of achieving global human and economic rights, equity and justice, and of the need to sustain ecology. And given the terrible state of global ecology, equity, justice, freedom, and rights � governments have in fact abdicated.

Only profound, revolutionary, gut-wrenching social, economic, political and personal change will save Earth, humanity and all life from ecology collapse and an end to being. Failure to accept revolutionary change tactics means we are accepting ecosystems and society will collapse, and you just want to enjoy living excessively awhile longer. Surely it is not rational to fail to pursue revolution because it may become violent, when violence orders of magnitude greater exists now daily under the status quo growth machine, and will only intensify as apocalyptic end of the world approaches.

We should pursue Earth Revolution using aggressive civil disobedience and non-violently as long as we can and they are effective. But the successes achieved have thus far been tiny compared to what is required to abet ecocidal trends. If accommodation and compromise continue to be rebuffed, and Earth is dying, and thus our very survival depends upon ecosystems which are being killed by ecocidal evil, we have an obligation to look at other well-known uncivil disobedience, non-cooperation, sabotage, and insurgency tactics � as well as emerging transnational protest opportunities presented by the Internet � to bring about social change for a living Earth.

Given the political and economic systems� inherent and profound violence to people and nature � as well as urgent global justice, equity and ecological imperatives � strategies and tactics are going to have to continue to be evaluated and evolve. Violent or non-violent is not the main consideration, and rarely are they exclusive. Other aspects of radical social change tactics � such as effective or non-effective, civil or uncivil, timely or too late, accommodating or not � are just as important.

Leaderless resistance tactics used by current global revolutionary movements could morph into underground cells waging revolution for global freedom, rights and ecosystems. The necessary Earth Revolution to sustain global ecology could escalate to non-cooperation with the ecocidal system, agro-ecological gardening while obstructing industrial agriculture, protecting and restoring ecosystems, and love-making and sharing.

And maybe � and only if absolutely necessary � Earth Revolution could embrace wisely conceived and targeted sabotage and insurgency to utterly destroy the global growth machine that is devouring ecosystems and destroying being.

There are many soft targets in the under-belly of the industrial growth machine that is liquidating ecosystems for throw-away consumption. Poorly defended fossil fuel, old forest logging, communication, pipeline and other industrial infrastructure abound. We know the primary perpetrators of ecocide profiting from Earth destroying activities, and they could be made to pay a heavy price, dissuading others from doing so.

Throughout history there are instances where revolutionary violence has been a liberating force, and other times where it has been oppressive. The coming Earth Revolution need not be overly violent. Like most revolutions, there will almost certainly be some. Again, NOBODY SEEKS VIOLENCE, and revolutions which don�t emphasize violence, while acknowledging the rights of others to act within their conscience, and which do not try to use violence to control its members, can often be remarkably free of physical coercion. Other times, where vital social change cannot be delayed � yet is highly contested by privileged elite � this may not be possible.

Ongoing institutionalized violence by the elitist economic growth machine, military legions, resurgent fascism and corporate ecocide far exceed what has occurred historically during liberating people power revolutions (and much of this is often incidental and caused by fringe forces). The level of violence during any possible Earth Revolution would largely be determined by the responses of the oppressors to legitimate and enlightened opposition to end ecosystem destruction, injustice and inequity.

Nature and I Fight Back

As I have spent a lifetime studying global trends of ecological decline, it has become clear that current remedial actions are going to be orders-of-magnitude inadequate. The over-population, ecosystem loss, toxics, injustice and inequity are just too pernicious. And I have also long had a fascination with the topic of non-violence, and when violence may be justified and necessary. These life-long observations have led me to become a reluctant member of the revolutionary left.

I am well aware of what humans are capable of in terms of violence, and the damage it does. I grew up in a family rife with childhood sexual abuse � in which I was violently sexually abused by a "favorite" uncle. My own topsy-turfy relationship with my lovely wife � who I love so much we have been married twice � was nonetheless marred by emotional and physical abuse on both our parts. Paradoxically, I excelled as a private in the army, yet left seeking conscientious objector status.

After leaving the army, I was quite proud of my commitment to peace, as I am now. And some former acquaintances are undoubtedly put off by the cognitive dissonance of a peace activist embracing revolution. But now, unlike then, I can envision something for which I would be willing to fight � other than god or country, which I have long rejected as the basis for killing � and that is continued existence for all life. We are one human family utterly dependent upon Earth's ecology for shared being. And if we don�t fight the forces of ecocide win and everything dies.

Knowing this, I have followed big dreams with my life, with no guarantees, and very few fundamental regrets. Giving your life to Earth is deeply satisfying. Nonetheless, sometimes I feel so traumatized by what I know is being done to Earth, and what will be the consequences, that I can hardly carry on. I am comforted by the expectation that at some point � those that realize Earth is dying � will have to take matters into their own hands, and will succeed. Indeed, people are coming together now for ecology, workers and rights. Such a people power Earth uprising is the only way we survive together.

** As I always do when writing about Earth Revolution, let me be clear that I am a political ecologist writing of these matters academically. Anyone carrying out Earth Revolution would be solely responsible for their actions.

ALERT! Stop Peru's Road to Rainforest Ecocide and Genocide of Uncontacted Indigenous Tribes

2012-01-25T16:13:28Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

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Plans are to build a highway through Alto Purus - Peru�s largest national park � comprised of vital intact Amazonian rainforest ecosystems and inhabited by at least two 'uncontacted' indigenous tribes [search]. The Alto Purus protected rainforest in south-east Peru is an area of incredible biodiversity covering some of the most pristine forests in the southwestern Amazon and home to jaguars, monkeys and pink dolphins. To cut it with a road would compromise the integrity of the entire Amazonion basin and trigger the swift demise of some of Earth�s last isolated hunting and gathering tribes. One of the 'uncontacted' tribes in the park is known as the 'Mashco-Piro', thought to be the largest group i

ALERT! NAMING NAMES: UN REDD+ Forest Carbon Fund to Log Primary Forests with Corporate NGO Greenwash Support

2012-01-03T19:07:46Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal and ClimateArk

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Earth is facing the twin global ecological emergencies of abrupt climate change and land being scoured of natural ecosystems. Sadly, corporate American NGOs and the United Nations are responding to these crises by further promoting logging ancient forests. The United Nations REDD+ program to protect primary and old growth forests as a climate change and deforestation solution has been hi-jacked by logging interests [search] and their big pro-logging NGO friends, and will instead subsidize primary forest logging for new plantations. REDD has become a gravy train for consultants, greenwashing NGOs and charlatans of many sorts - claiming logging ancient rainforests for the first time protects them! Old standing natural forest ecosystems are key to sustaining climate, ecosystems, biodiversity, local livelihoods humanity and the Earth System. Corporate NGOs supporting REDD+ must be compelled to stop their old forest logging greenwash - or face ridicule, protest, and an end to public support, until they do.

ALERT! Brazilian Forest Code Revisions Threaten Amazon Rainforest, National Advancement, and Ecological Sustainability

2011-12-22T19:14:02Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

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Brazil's industrial agriculture lobby has forced through their Congress changes to the forest code [search], the primary legal instrument related to Amazon rainforest protections. It has been done without any scientific inputs, and in a way that will greatly expand industrial agriculture by reducing ecological protections. Newly elected President Dilma Rousseff must be encouraged to veto the bill, something she promised to do during the election. Efforts to address forest code deficiencies must recommence in a manner that incorporates the latest agro-ecological science regarding sustainable agriculture and the importance of large, connected and intact rainforest ecosystems within agricultural landscapes. Without a veto, recent progress in Amazon rainforest protection is at stake just as Brazil is to host the Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012.

RAINFOREST ALERT! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened by Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal Logging

2011-12-14T03:00:22Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

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Belize�s renowned rainforests [search], beaches, and Mayan homelands are threatened with a resource rampage by a corrupt government confronted with massive foreign debt. With the Prime Minister's permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park - against international treaty commitments and a Belizean Supreme Court ruling. These cleared lines are now being used by poachers to ransack the rainforest, with stolen timbers transported to Guatemala and onward to China.

EARTH MEANDERS: They Say It�s My Birthday� and I have a few wishes

2011-12-08T23:28:04Z

Today is my birthday and it�s going to be a good time. So as I craft a day of mirth, free spirit and all my favorite activities, let me ruminate upon what I wish for as gifts on this special day.

I want peace on Earth, real peace, the kind where the armies demobilize and don�t remain standing like it used to be. Peace where trillions aren�t wasted from funding public social needs. I want a real and permanent turning of tanks into ploughshares. War�s obscene waste of energy, materials, human potential and life cannot persist if human and ecological being are to continue. I want it to end now.

The truth is we are one human family, one species, perhaps from different lineages with a crazy uncle, but a family nonetheless. And I want us to start acting like it. Nation state boundaries are a new false construct meant to divide us. As a human family I want our basic universal rights strictly and unconditionally observed. The human condition is absolute freedom as long as we don�t hurt others. I want gods and governments off of and out of my body.

]]> The lack of economic justice is atrocious and I want extremes in inequity ended now. With billions having unmet needs, I want to extend basic needs to all. I want sustainable livelihoods and much more equal wealth distribution as the norm. I want sharing to allow basic needs of all to be met, with extra for smart, hard-workers. I feel the pain of billions suffering as billions have their every need met, and the 1% feasts like kings of old. I want this grotesque unfairness of the human condition to end now.

Without global ecological sustainability we are dead. So I especially want humanity to power down to once again exist within the boundaries of ecosystems, their life, and the biosphere�s needs. It is time to show good will � and recognize the right to exist � for all life. The variety of life on this planet is amazing. Each has an equal stake upon its niche. Together all species are required to form ecosystems which make Earth habitable. I want ecocide to end now using all means necessary.

Mostly I want the inevitable unraveling of industrial society to occur in a reasonably just and minimally disruptive manner. I want the human animal to return to the land, water, air and oceans in a way that doesn�t destroy ecological being, and causes minimal suffering for all life. Earth is well beyond its carrying capacity already, meaning there are going to be large scale die-off in ecosystems, life and people. It has already commenced. I want the meek and unfortunate to inherit and reinvent the Earth post-collapse.

I want humanity to continue, so I want my family to learn to consume less and like it. We are going to have to commit to ecosystem protection and restoration; organic, permaculture, bioregional agriculture; fewer toys and more durable, well met needs; and things not being the meaning of life. I want plastic junk consumption ended now and organic, non-toxic and non-industrial meeting of our needs and reasonable desires.

When we all are fed, housed, free, actualized and productive; I want to play. I desperately want the human family�s energies put in creative expression � into arts, sport, thinking, love-making, literature, community, spiritually, philosophy, and the search for truth. For me this starts with my need for an Aaron Rodgers football jersey from the world champion and undefeated Green Bay Packers.

I want our thinkers, creators, peace-makers and visionaries celebrated like we do our celebrities and athletes. It is cool to be smart, to be you, to care, to sacrifice, to want more lasting well-being for your extended family. And I would like to be able to make a living and care for my family by working to get us there.

I want free thinking and pursuit of truth as the meaning of life. And want this and all the above now, whatever is required to get it done, because human and planetary lifes are too short to mess around. Let�s together get it done starting now.

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Dr. Glen Barry of Ecological Internet is a PhD ecologist specializing in land, climate, and requirements for global ecological sustainability. He has worked with the World Bank, the University of Wisconsin, consults globally in ecology and IT, and lived in Papua New Guinea for many years. He was recently named a "global visionary... changing your world" by the Utne Reader. He has written more than 125 Earth Meanders over the last several years. A short bio can be found at: http://www.climateark.org/shared/staff/glen.asp

ALERT: Uganda's Protected Mabira Rainforest Threatened Again by Sugar Production

2011-11-21T14:37:28Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

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Plans by Uganda's President to partially destroy the Mabira rainforest - one of the nation's most important rainforest preserves - have surfaced again after being defeated in 2007. Let the Ugandan government know rainforests and their ecological services including water, climate and biodiversity are far more important than sugar which can be grown elsewhere. Together with local opposition Ecological Internet has defeated this project twice before, let's do it again.

RELEASE: Today as Rainforest Action Network and Awardee Naomi Klein REVEL, Primary Rainforests Continue to Be Destroyed in Their Names

2011-10-12T12:57:32Z

By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet
http://www.ecoearth.info/newsdesk/
CONTACT: Dr. Glen Barry, glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org

- Once again Ecological Internet�s true global rainforest action network questions the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged [search]. The Rainforest Action Network and Forest Stewardship Council are first time industrial primary forest logging which must end immediately. Standing, intact primary rainforests and all old forests must be fully protected from certified and carbon forestry, and restored to continue powering global ecosystems and advance local communities.

(Earth) - Today San Francisco based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) will throw yet another swanky celebrity filled party to REVEL and congratulate themselves for logging primary forests to protect them, and to raise further money for such "rainforest protection". RAN continues to hold to the myth that primary rainforests - 500 year old trees in millions of year old ecosystems - should be "sustainably managed" for consumption such as toilet paper and lawn furniture. Noted author Naomi Klein will be RAN's guest of honor, receive an award, and has been vocal in defending the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) brand of disaster capitalism.

]]> RAN is one of biggest threats to world's rainforests and inhabitants because of their founding and support of FSC's massive primary forest logging over an area estimated at the size of South Africa. RAN holds out first time industrial logging of primary and other old forests as a solution to rainforest loss. RAN's campaign against Disney promotes the use of FSC "certified" paper from first time industrial primary rainforest logging in Indonesia for their paper supply. THERE IS another option - learning to live without old forest timbers.

"There is no such thing as 'Ethical Primary Forest Timbers', and this isn't some minor difference of opinion over tactics," explains Ecological Internet's President Dr. Glen Barry. "The issue is whether enough old forests and other intact terrestrial ecosystems exist to prevent the collapse of our shared biosphere. Even FSC which is supposedly the best murderer of old forests gets 60% of their timber and fibers by destroying primary forests. And whether green NGOs collecting money for rainforest protection should support and benefit from primary rainforest logging. Without access to old forests and RAN greenwash, FSC would fall apart. We continue our demands that RAN resign from FSC immediately, or continue to face boycott."

Ecological Internet's campaign to get big NGOs (BINGOs) out of the business of supporting primary rainforest and other old forest logging has been going on for 3 years, starting during RAN's 2008 REVEL. After negotiations with RAN's management broke down on two occasions, Ecological Internet and tens of thousands of others have protested RAN on nearly a dozen occasions. Promises have been made and broken by RAN to evaluate their FSC affiliation. RAN claims to be changing FSC from within, but there has never been any proof of this. Sadly the once proud RAN has resorted to censorship, character libel, and stonewalling to hide their treacherous forest destruction.

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Large connected expanses of primary rainforests - and other intact old forests and ecosystems of all types - are required to sustain global ecology, minimize abrupt climate change, and provide for continued local community advancement from standing old forests. Best scientific estimates are that large, natural, fully operational ecosystems across at least half of Earth's surface, water and oceans are required for Earth's biosphere, all species, and the human family's survival.

It is ironic this year's RAN rainforest awardee - anti-corporate author Naomi Klein, who popularized the expression disaster capitalism - supports RAN and FSC's forest destruction. FSC's current prying open of the Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforests for first time primary forest logging is disaster capitalism at its worse. It is troubling Ms. Klein in her apologist writings for RAN's greenwash can envision a world without oil, tar sands, corporations, and capitalism; but not one without industrially cutting 500 year old trees in millions of year old ecosystems for toilet paper and other consumption.

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For more information:
Greenpeace and RAN Out of FSC Primary Forest Logging Now!
http://www.facebook.com/oldforests - Ecological Internet's campaign page

EARTH MEANDERS: The Great Rainforest Heist: Greenpeace, WWF, RAN, FSC and REDD+ Conspiracy to Log Earth�s Last Primary Forests for Their Protection - http://j.mp/RainforestHeist - essay and draft report

ACTION ALERT! FSC Rainforest Logging is Disaster Capitalism: Tell RAN and Naomi Klein, No Such Thing as "Ethical Primary Forest Timbers"

2011-10-09T16:22:30Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

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SHAME! Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is one of the primary obstacles to protecting ancient rainforests [search] as they promote their first time industrial logging. RAN founded and ardently supports the Forest Stewardship Council's (FSC) [search] destruction of 320,000,000 acres of primary forests (the size of South Africa), including for toilet paper and lawn furniture. This week RAN throws another swanky celebrity filled party to congratulate themselves for logging primary forests to protect them, and to raise further money for more such "rainforest protection". Noted author Naomi Klein will be their guest of honor and receive an award from RAN. Please make Naomi aware of this greenwash, ask that she decline the award to protest RAN's disaster capitalism, and demand that RAN resign from FSC.

EARTH MEANDERS: 9/11/01 � The Day America Died

2011-09-11T17:02:51Z

The 9/11 attacks were inhumane barbarity that brutally destroyed thousands. Yet America squandered the opportunity to unite the world against terrorism, instead going it alone to wage perma-war for a decade (permanent war, still on-going), causing tremendous lasting damage to life in America, our ideals, and world standing. In policies that can best be described as grotesque acts of revenge, hundreds of times the original victims of 9/11 were murdered by U.S. troops given illegal orders. Many if not most of the 300,000 to 1,000,000 killed were innocents � just as in the twin tower attacks. This is not the America where I was born and raised. If these militarist, fascist, morally and financially bankrupt policies and resultant collapse of ecology continue; the simpler, more honorable America has died, perhaps forever.

By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk

Introduction

On the tenth anniversary of 9/11 attacks upon America, I too mourn 3,000 victims of a monstrous criminal evil. Yet as a politically unaffiliated free thinker and global citizen, I am acutely aware that this was only the beginning of the decade�s violent criminal atrocities. I will not and cannot forget America�s dramatic and incautious over-reaction, as mostly decent countrymen and women lashed out with a murderous vengeance. Some 250,000 to one million have been killed in Iraq and about 50,000 in Afghanistan by America�s illegal wars and military aggression (some estimates run much higher). Why bring this up today? Because those that write history control our future, and the true story of American war crimes has not been told.

Post-911, America�s political leaders with vast public support, turned loose its vengeful legions and killing machines, in effect murdering � as occurs with all war deaths � at least 100 to 350 times as many innocents in Persia and Arabia as were lost in the twin towers. The vast majority of these casualties are innocent civilians that loved their children, worked, and prayed to their god just like their New York brethren. Given that several hundred thousand to a million innocent Middle East civilians have been murdered in a decade of American cold-blooded revenge for 9/11, this essay will ask whether this is enough and the wars of murderous vengeance can end now.

]]> Post-911 bad American behavior shows how easily patriotism becomes nationalism, to justify militarism, leading easily to fascism�s tyranny and mass killing. In addition to mass indiscriminate murder worthy of the 911 attack perpetrators, America�s post-911 responses include torture, prisoner abuse, stripping civil liberties, arbitrary indefinite detentions, spying on citizens, and the rise of a fascist police state. This loss of tangible freedoms in a war proclaimed to be about freedom leads me to question whether America can be said to be the good guys in any real sense in the war on terror, when it uses terror tactics itself.

The Earth Meanders series of essays � which place global contemporary issues within an ecological framework � prides itself with providing alternative narratives from a different biocentric, human family centered viewpoint. I am told free speech still exists in America (albeit in tawdry remnants that is spied upon). Yet with cable news mythologizing 911 victims and troops 24/7, I must speak my mind and be heard. I would find the likely assaults on free-thinking, alternative narratives like this one presented here to be funny, if it weren't fascist censorship by the thought police. America is free, has freedom of speech, this is why we fight I am told. You do remember?

This essay explores the fact that state sponsored murder by U.S. troops � acting upon illegal orders in multiple unjust and undeclared wars � has killed hundreds of thousands if not millions, including many, many innocents, whose families mourn their deaths too. It asks whether we Yankees have exacted enough revenge and gotten even yet for 9/11?

If so, can we end the wars and bring the troops home, while remaining eternally vigilant regarding terrorism? Can some of the war trillions be redirected to address our shared collapsing economy, ecology, society, justice, jobs, equity and fairness? Can we adopt a little of the spirit of other victims of terrorism � shown recently in Spain, Norway and elsewhere � and not become terrorists ourselves, forgive our transgressors, and stop hating and murdering now?

Perma-War, War Crimes and Fascism

America has become a vicious fascist empire, whose legions steal resources, destroy ecosystems, and murder to maintain inequity and over-consumption for corporations and the ruling elite back home. In taking revenge upon poor, hapless villagers eking out a living that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, while being guided by oil geo-politics, the United States has shown clearly that it is unexceptional, and that in fact it is dangerous, greedy, and ecocidal (killing ecology). Patriotism DOES NOT mean silence as perma-war fever overtakes and kills the very moral fiber of your once great nation.

9/11 was blow-back from a long history of U.S. occupation and militarism, period. It brought home to the U.S. nationalistic militarism, crashed economies, and tawdry morals it has inflicted upon the world for over a century � with notable exceptions like the World Wars. In other words, when you act like the schoolyard bully, stealing and acting better than everyone else, eventually someone tries to take you down. Osama may be dead, and we may continue to fight the tactic of terrorism forever, yet we have already lost the war to avenge 9/11 justly and honorably, and a whole lot more.

9/11 unleashed America's dogs of war, leading to at least half a dozen ongoing wars (the ones we know about). U.S. troops have in effect waged genocide upon Iraqi and Afghanistan civilians for almost ten years through a brutal counter-insurgency campaign, reigning bombs and radioactive ordinance at will. The U.S. now spends $600 Billion a year on war, nearly doubling in 10 years, which is spent for hundreds of military bases around the world, used to police and occupy much of the world; and for illegal secret programs that overthrow leaders, carry out assassinations and torture, and eliminate freedoms and democracy overseas and here at home.

Post 911 America became THE evil empire - narcissistic, entitled, superstitious, uneducated, ecocidal, militaristic, unequal, unjust, and unfair. I have written at length of Bush and Cheney�s war crimes, there is no doubt they occurred and have gone unpunished. Yet Obama � sold to us and elected as America�s great black hope � has left these policies virtually untouched, in many instances strengthened, like with the Afghan surge and military adventurism into Pakistan, intensifying illegal perma-war against international law and norms.

Thus Bush, Cheney, Obama, their staffs, lines of command, officers, troops and acquiescing U.S. citizens are all war criminals. Their crimes include carrying out asymmetric ongoing revenge killings far beyond the original horrendous crime � morphing not so subtlety into wars of occupation and destabilization for oil. Their unimaginative, non-nuanced and plainly illegal actions in prosecuting illegal wars of aggression have also resulted in the loss of hard fought advances in international law, human rights, and civil liberties. It is unlikely things will ever be normalized soon or perhaps ever � particularly as the conflicts likely true $3.7 trillion dollar price tag � $2.5 trillion already and more to come when all is accounted for � has devastated the once great nation�s economy, ecology, and society.

Much has been lost on the home front as questioning government militarism has been virtually outlawed by myth-making, virulent nationalist propaganda, and violent crowds. The door has been opened to dangerously right wing, fascist, bellicose and vicious, hard-talking politicians � each falling over themselves to be harder than the other on terrorism at the expense of preemptive killing and loss of liberties.

The Republicans and Tea Party (which has always been here as John Birch, McCarthyite fascists) are mostly superstitious, uneducated, bigoted fascists bent upon denying restraint upon military power, and observable scientific truths, in order to further enrich the ruling elite at the expense of workers, rights and ecology. Corporatists use the situation to dismantle hard fought and vital freedoms, regulations and protections, so society can be enslaved, resources over-consumed and ecology destroyed by the mega-rich in the name of "jobs", "patriotism", and stopping "gays".

Americans are indoctrinated that they are exceptional, god's chosen people. Yet when the killing in our name with our tax-dollars commenced, we were told to shop, not conserve � something we did in earnest until war expenditures crashed the economy (as has happened with virtually every empire). There is no such thing as perfect security, particularly in a vibrant liberal democracy, and trying means limiting freedoms, rights, and a permanent state of war. America�s 9/11 incautious militarization � at home and abroad � far exceeds the evil of one criminal act, however horrendous.

War Bad for Ecology

We have watched the war on terror morph into the war for oil and other resources, which we are stealing at the point of a gun from poor local inhabitants that live on the foreign land above our oil, and thus must be killed, removed or pacified. America�s industrial, speculative capitalism has been shown to be deeply violent - routinely killing people, species and ecosystems with impunity. Human life and ecology are worth nothing if they block the ruling elite from growing richer.

Without diminishing what was lost on this fateful day 10 years ago, let's gain some perspective. Coincidentally, bad sources of drinking water kill 3,000 kids DAILY, and it is totally preventable globally with one-time $20 billion dollar expenditure, a tiny percentage of our military budget. This means some eleven million deaths of innocent children have resulted from bad water in 10 years. Where is the outrage? Why is nothing being done?

These kids and their families aren't bankers- yet internationally the 2.5 billion living on less than $2/day, one billion without adequate water, and another billion with not enough food, have dreams and hopes too. They love their children, work hard, and feel pain too. They are also routinely wracked by the consequences of American militarism, and deserve to be heard and share in Earth�s bounty too. As deeply addicted Americans wail regarding gasoline prices, perhaps we could pay a bit more and share so these HUMANS that are our FAMILY can live a decent life too? Is that asking too much?

Anyone not deeply and profoundly outraged by the violence done daily by the U.S. military and ruling elite's economic growth machine - to the natural world and those living in abject poverty - is not fully human or actualized, has not overcome childhood indoctrination and superstition, and is no friend of truth, justice, equity, sustaining ecology and the human family.

Those who think we cannot afford to sustain ecology and share with the less fortunate, while running a war economy for decades, and only after everyone has a job and the economy is growing, do not understand how ecosystems work and our utter dependence upon ecology for EVERYTHING. They ensure a violent people�s power revolution to aggrieve terrible, vicious global inequity in living conditions.

American�s grotesquely wasteful and consumptive way of life � epitomized by foreign policy that takes resources at the point of a gun � is leading the world right to the brink of final ecosystem collapse. In fact, God�s chosen exceptional people are totally ignoring climate change caused extreme weather which is trashing America all year right in our faces.

America is so self-absorbed, so cocooned in air-conditioned comfort, so unexceptional, and so ecocidal that it wouldn't notice abrupt climate change if it bit it in the ass - or crashed the economy, led to foreign militaristic resource adventurism, and destroyed the Yankee spirit of decency. Gee, I guess we should pray for rain.

Virtually every other grave ecological threat to humanity including ecosystem collapse, abrupt climate change, water scarcity, dying oceans, food shortages, over-population, inequitable and over-consumption, etc. has been put on hold as we cower in our beds, pissing ourselves with fright that today a terrorist may kill us, rather than going about our daily lives with pride and courage.

If there is no ecology, there can be no economy, no jobs, nothing! The U.S. and world economy - which have been based upon unlimited growth, resource use, and ecosystem destruction - will never "recover" to what it has been. Such grotesquely high levels of growth in inequitable consumption simply cannot be sustained in an over-populated world with all having ever higher aspirations. The human family commits to voluntary simplicity and sharing, or we will all die at each others� throats � in one or another perma-war � seeking ecosystems' last ill-gotten wealth.

The human family, plants and animals, and our shared Earth, are one, which some call Gaia, a living but dying organism. Our whole living Earth family is in ecosystem collapse together, and achieving global ecological sustainability must be where we focus our energy and resources, not warring over our religious differences and to further oil addiction. As America's gluttonous over-consumption comes to an end � largely as a result of poor governance post-911, ecosystem collapse, and the bills coming due for perma-war � American citizens must resist turning even more sullen, belligerent, self-righteous, thus showing clearly there is nothing exceptional here.

Truth and Reconciliation

The U.S. needs a truth and reconciliation commission investigation to fully and transparently investigate all U.S. war crimes after the attack, and to immediately commit to ending the post-911 wars. We need the true 911 history, not the Disneyfied glorification of unjust war, vengeance, and resource grabs by the corporate media, made holy because we are god�s chosen people.

Only bringing those responsible to justice for all post-911 atrocities � while continuing to build the body of international law, courts and international police to punish and eliminate unjustified terror (remembering justified wars of liberation do exist) � can end the killing. Then together we can begin ending much worse crimes like ecocide, elite corporate rule, and rising fascism which threaten the entire human family's freedom, livelihoods and very existence.

It is well past time for Earth's human family to rise-up and shut down U.S. perma-wars, wage people power Earth revolution against ecocidalists and their industrial growth machine, and get back to the land and gardens to protect and restore ecology. I believe strongly it is better to go on lively freely and humanely, engaged with bettering the world, while being careful � yet perhaps suffering an occasional terrorist attack � than to live fortified, isolated and morally repugnant lives of aggression and resource thievery.

Haven't we all paid enough for Osama�s lunacy? He�s dead and this can all end if the corporations and military/industrial complex benefiting richly will allow it. Can we please stop the post-911 repudiation of everything for which America has ever stood? Let�s use the peace dividend to transform the world.

I and Ecological Internet fearlessly think freely and speak truthfully regarding global ecology and the human family's condition. Join us on the globally ecologically sustainable, genuinely peaceful, people�s power, human rights filled, equitable and just side of history. Or we can allow continued fascist perma-war and ecocide, and wait for being to collapse into nothingness.

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RELEASE/VICTORY: Papua New Guinea Begins Commission of Inquiry into Rainforest Land Grabs

2011-09-02T00:32:39Z

By Earth's Newsdesk and the Rainforest Portal, projects of Ecological Internet
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Once again Ecological Internet�s true global rainforest action network contributes to questioning and obstructing the dominate paradigm that primary rainforests exist to be industrially logged

Papua New Guinea has launched a Commission of Inquiry into foreign land grabs of pristine, indigenous owned primary rainforests for clearcut logging and supposed oil palm development. PNG has the world�s third largest rainforests [search], but sadly industrial logging and oil palm are booming, and large, intact old rainforest ecosystems are dwindling fast. An entrenched and voracious Malaysian timber-mafia has until now virtually owned the government and the nation�s rainforests.

�Special Agriculture and Business Leases� (SABL) covering 5.2 million hectares (12.8 million acres) were granted 74 times in recent years by former Prime Minister Michael Somare. These agriculture projects skirted forestry laws and customary land ownership, allowing clearcuts of primary rainforests on customary land without consent, for oil palm which may or may not get planted. Local national led NGOs such as the highly successful ACT NOW![1] and others expressed concern that SABL leases were improperly executed and would result in large scale logging without providing agricultural development.

]]> After nearly a year in country, patrolling and investigating the situation, Ecological Internet�s global network launched an affinity alert in support of local NGO demands in June of 2011, whereby 3,197 people from 81 countries sent 137,133 protest emails to PNG rainforest decision-makers in a short time[2]. Past evidence and scholarship has shown displays of global concern when closely supporting local rainforest protection demands are highly effective. The start of the investigation has been aided by the transition of government from Michael Somare�s deeply corrupted government to new Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.

�Thankfully PNG�s once great founder, but recent foreign corruption shill, Michael Somare is off of the PNG political stage. It is shocking that Somare-era grotesque stealing of customary land for clear-fell rainforest logging have taken so long to stopped and investigated. This foreign land grab has undermined landowner customary land rights which are largely respected. These standing rainforests are priceless and landowners must resist foreign occupation to instead pursue indigenous protection and community eco-forestry. Let�s be watchful and ensure the investigation is done properly,� comments Dr. Barry, Ecological Internet�s President.

While ACT PNG and Ecological Internet acknowledge there is reason for optimism and celebration, there is good reason to remain skeptical. The Commission of Inquiry has been given only three months to complete its work, which is unrealistic given PNG�s challenging logistics, particularly given many files have already been identified as having gone missing. This is not enough time to identify and fix failings in the Department of Lands and the truth about foreign ownership of land titles. Yet Ecological Internet believes it is important to acknowledge success and forward movement in rainforest protection campaigns, while remaining eternally vigilant.

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�Special Agriculture and Business Leases� (SABL) have been misused to take control of land from local peoples, granting 99 year leasehold title over huge tracts of customary land to foreign companies. Former acting Prime Minister, Sam Abal, had called for a Commission of Inquiry into the SABLs earlier in the year, and had suspended their further issuance. Yet the forces of rainforest destruction successfully pushed back for months, led by logging giant Rimbunan Hijau of Malaysia and a deeply corrupted PNG government still led by Michael Somare.

In Ecological Internet�s home province of Madang, PNG, an area totaling 112,400 hectares of important primary rainforest was granted as an SABL in March, 2011. This joins Madang�s illegal tuna development, new Nickle mining ocean waste disposal, and Rimbunan Hijau�s struggling Ramu logging concession. At the same time, logging giant Rimbunan Hijau is diversifying, developing a large oil palm scheme in the Kikori plains in the Gulf Province. With Michael Somare gone, ending decades of corruption in rainforest management will also require sacking Wari Iamo, chief of PNG�s environment department and forestry board, and Somare�s corrupt bagman for rainforest crime.

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[1] ACT NOW! For a better PNG

[2] Papua New Guinea: Push for Commission of Inquiry into Illegal Rainforest Logging/Oil Palm Land Grabs

EARTH MEANDERS: Ecology Bubble Bursts

2011-07-25T19:43:52Z

End of ecosystems required for human habitat upon us, not many ways to sustain global ecology left

By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk

Ever since the human family embraced a growth based mentality and obsequious faith in liberal economics, we have witnessed a series of bubbles. The most recent boom-bust cycle has been the still unresolved financial and mortgage bubbles, but bubbles go as far back as the Dutch tulip mania of 1637. Exuberant yet clearly unsustainable growth, or inversely destruction, appears to be inherent to industrial, speculative, and growth obsessed capitalism. Bubbles represent the human proclivity for greed, to grow too fast, overshooting demand, while often exhausting key resources.

Global ecology, the biggest bubble of all, is now collapsing and will soon burst. Voracious economic and human growth have raged for three centuries upon the back of dismantling ecosystems globally. Humanity�s economic outputs have been over-valued relative to the ecologically mediated resources incautiously razed for their production. Earth�s carrying capacity - meaning ecology's finite ability to provide ecosystem services and absorb pollution � has been surpassed. Having grown beyond what Earth can bear, the human family is said to be in "overshoot", which can only lead to collapse.

]]> Earth is a living being and like all life can die. Earth is dying now as virus-like humanity destroys its host's ecosystem organs. Every day we scrape Earth of its plants and animals, dig and drill into toxic �resources� not meant to be unearthed, and crap our wastes into air, land and water. Systems biology tells us an exponentially growing system in positive feedback � such as the super-sized economy feasting upon finite and precious global ecology � always eventually destroys itself. This is particularly so given perilous lag times of many ecosystem processes and losses.

The ecological systems underlying human existence are beginning to burst like bubbles. Virtually every type of ecosystem and their output � fish, food, water, air, climate, forests, land, wetlands, soil, etc � are now collapsing locally and regionally. We are witnessing this steady biological impoverishment, of virtually every life-giving ecosystem, aggregate to the whole biosphere � the thin mantle of life surrounding an otherwise lifeless Earth. When speaking of a biosphere bubble burst it is accurate to say Earth is dying. And that it need not be that way, if only we were able to change to maintain ecosystems that foster all human and life�s being.

Ecology has provided a constant stream of services to humanity and other life, making Earth habitable, for what seems like eternity. Food offers one illustrative example of humanity�s utter dependence upon ecology: sun, water, soil, climate, seeds and healthy agro-ecological systems are where food comes from - not grocery stores and mini-marts. That we need air, water, soil and other ecosystems are demonstrable truths � unlike beliefs in unknowable ancient messiahs, which have guided so much of Earth ecology�s destruction.

Industrial capitalism is dependent upon destroying ecosystems as resources for temporary increases in the well-being of some. While climate change is one of several global ecosystems that are collapsing due to human over-use, it is important to remember there are other collapsing ecological systems � including soil, water, forest, wetland, nitrogen, ocean, toxic, ecosystem, poverty, food and others - that singly and together threaten continued human and ecological being. It is these potentially cumulative impacts of several assaults upon key global ecosystems that are most problematic and potentially chaotic. And it�s not even done fairly, as 2.5 billion live on under $2 a day.

The industrial growth machine�s rampant misuse of inappropriate technology to rip apart Earth�s life-support systems for endless frivolous wants by some as others starve and eke out a living must yield to some basic truths. If we are to sustain the required ecosystem habitats necessary, we cannot cut and burn them simultaneously, or multiply to such numbers that we overwhelm them. If you�ve ever seen an over-grazed pasture you know what over-population does to a limited land and resource base � human population must be urgently and humanely reduced.

Hubristic faith in technological solutions to Earth being beyond its carrying capacity is fanatical madness. Continued technological reliance to �solve� Earth�s ecological carrying capacity problem will only inflate the bubble further and result in a bigger bursting, and less remnants from which to try to reconstitute an ecologically based future. Inane techno-optimism such as geo-engineering is ecocide right up to the end � pushing Earth to the wall, raping her, before killing her. It is far preferable to begin to adjust human demands upon ecology to reasonable limits. Not only is ecology truth, and you cannot eat money, but collapsing ecosystems are not substitutable with technology.

What to do? We need knowledge based solutions to sustaining global ecology that are also just, equitable and enhance human dignity - not superstitious, illogical, greedy, and ignorant responses of god's self-chosen ruling elites.

It is too late to stop the global ecology bubble from bursting. Yet a short window exists, perhaps, to lessen the impact of the ecology bubble burst, and provide for some manner of decent existence and potential for restoration and regeneration of a new human/nature project post-collapse. But if we continue to do nothing, or next to nothing, the cumulative impacts of global ecological collapse will intensify and prove to be unrecoverable, unless met with opposing force to end the ecocidal activities surpassing ecology's limits.

It is time for us to return to the land, air, water and oceans and fight for their and our protection and restoration. Simply we must embrace ecological restoration, ecosystem protection, industrial power down, escalating protest and a people�s power Earth Revolution. For continued shared survival the human family must protect and restore natural ecosystems as the keystone response to biodiversity, ecosystem, climate, food, water, poverty and rights crises. Few are doing so as rigorously as is necessary.

Both the perpetrators and greenwashers of ecosystem destruction must be confronted with a wave of people power protests for ecologically sufficient policies like ending primary forest logging, fossil fuels and industrial agriculture. Existing non-violent, direct action protest is fine and must be enlarged, though it has not yet, nor is it likely to be, scaled to an extent able to win on its own. We will need to further intensify our efforts to use the wide myriad of civil and uncivil disobedience tactics known that disrupt ecocide. And if these appeals are not responded to affirmatively after 40 years of stonewalling, we may need to escalate tactics to sabotage, carefully targeted insurgency, and as a last resort, guerrilla warfare.

We face a planetary ecological emergency. Misery and premature death from ecological collapse is all our fates unless we together and all at once resist ecocide. If we all rush and dismantle a coal mine or old forest logging operation, and when asked who did, we respond we all did, we will have won. To speak of sustaining ecology while pursuing anything less than the destruction and overthrow of the industrial growth machine is greenwash and subject itself to being destroyed. The only hope for surviving and regenerating from ecology�s burst bubble is to stop destroying ecosystems and change how we live � including more sustainability, equity and justice.

Maybe people aren�t ready for what I have to say, but I am going to keep saying it because it is ecology truth vital for shared human and all life�s survival. At times it is hard to be heard because I and my organization Ecological Internet refuse to sugar coat our message as we take on difficult issues with ecological science based diagnoses and recommendations. In a world of so much hurt, pain and illness; it is outrageous to futilely cling to an industrial consumer way of living that destroys ecology, people and all that is good and necessary to simply live. Do not wait for others to heal yourself or your relationship with Earth. You have to start now and work harder at both, doing what your conscience tells you is necessary, and taking full responsibility for doing so.

ALERT! Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Is Primary Forest Logging: Clearing Rainforests for Plantations Is NOT Sustainable, Members Must Stop Greenwash or Resign

2011-06-30T16:25:02Z

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal

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The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) [search] brand gets 70% of its timber and pulp by greenwashing current and planned destruction of 130,000,000 hectares of primary rainforests and other old forests � an area the size of South Africa. This week - at FSC�s tri-annual General Assembly in Malaysia � the ecocidal greenwash worsens, as FSC may start certifying plantations timbers from land cleared of primary rainforests [search] as being "sustainable" as well. Being the best ecocidal rainforest destroyer is nothing to be proud of � all such deadly old forest certification schemes must stop.

Please call upon all FSC members to reject the certification of primary forests by resigning immediately, as many others have recently done. Further, demand FSC immediately stop certifying primary forest logging or disband itself now during their meeting. Thank you for participating in EI's on-going global campaign to end primary forest logging, and to protect and restore old forests, as keystone responses to abrupt climate change, biodiversity loss and global ecosystem collapse.