last night i was watching the news and they said the oil spill will likely continue to gush until august…AT LEAST! i can’t help but think about how crazy are world is. how much it doesn’t make sense…and where we are headed…
i think many of our equality rights are directly tied in with our responsibility to mother earth…and how we care for her. as the oil continues to seep into the ocean, many people are losing their livelihoods, animals are dying (and will continue to), people are getting sick…and who knows what else is happening. but the oil companies still refuse to stop the insanity of drilling for oil in our oceans. what are we doing about this? how are we holding corporations responsible when we allow them to kill our home? i wonder how our rights and responsibilities change when the very home we all live on hangs in peril.
i think all rights are interconnected–how we treat each other is not separate from how we treat the earth, animals, our air. i think equality rights (any rights!) are inseparable from our responsibility to treat all life with respect and honour. i wonder if maybe equality rights are that simple: respect, honour, self-awareness, responsibility to all life.
this is a cool link that talks about the possible impact of the gulf oil spill on all of us:http://www.naturalnews.com/028893_top_kill_Gulf_Coast.html
