A re-combination of thoughts’ fragments: the ecologist role, isn’t it –in essence– the role of every human being?

Last Saturday I was invited to spend the afternoon on air in “Absurda Sobremesa” (absurd table talk) a radio program of Santa Rosa.  A potpourri of issues, dealt with good vibes, sarcasm and, if necessary, moral seriousness. A radio program with many voices, fused together in one voice for the listener who is looking forward to get out of the tupperware.

We sketched doable possible changes to modify the system, we talked about the Critical Mass taken forward in La Pampa and how this global movement will go on with our bikes…

We sketched, I say,  because each issue we grazed invited never-ending debates and thoughts that, if boarded, the listener would get bored –maybe he only wanted a sensationalist piece of data to go on with his routine– or worse, he is afraid from the truth, of knowing too much… It is time we start talking about these things, no matter how absurd our conversation seems in our table talks with friends and family.

Miguel, Charly, Marcos and the rest of the crew, are in charge of sustaining the voice of consciousness alive.

One of them felt that as the Critical Mass lacked a defined ideology, or institutionalized structure or identification with a political party, he did not feel like participating in it, because he saw it as an altruist act, with no specific objective, trivial, abstract. It lacked identification, a label, a definition with words.

I suggested that both the Critical Mass and any type of pro-environmental change in our actions transcended all words, because it is not centralized in how you do it, but acts directly chasing an objective and your everyday decision making is easy, because the objective of change is clear.

“Innaction is a weapon of mass destruction” says a Faithless’ lyric.

Thus, one is,indeed, participating actively in favor of sustainability when going out on bike massively, because, afterwards, you go home and linger on thoughts regarding that “unlabeled” act which you were part of, and now yes, just like a germinating seed, a personal identification rises, the integration of lived emotions with our own daily living, with our professional career, our arts and social understandings.

And so, the guy that works in a bookstore will suddenly feel an urge to relocate environmental books in the display window; the journalist will want to include info on the environment and how we are squeezing it all up; the traffic officer will stop giving tickets to everyone for bad parking (he will finally understand that the function he was given to perform is a stupid intention to mitigate the amount of cars sold to everyone as a symbol of social status: of course, we were the ones who swallowed all the publicity) and starts penalizing those whose exhaust pipes are broken and make noise and contaminate the air.

The conclusion: we all end up being potential main characters of change. We all feel the need of changing our way of living. Besides the fact that a biological symbiosis exists between humans and nature, we need to reach a mental symbiosis, tame the rational part of our society; that which ran away while manufacturing and selling…

In an article titled “The ecologist role before the current environmental crises” of Diego Gurvich, the author proposes that anyone who investigates the environment must acquire a more active role within popular science and demand specific policies, and argues that the voice of a community as a whole has more weight and credibility than separate individuals.

Hence, if we all form part of the same environment, it is everyone’s responsibility to represent and defend it… it is here where the true sense of not belonging to any political party, nor religion, nor social sector appears… because the environmental claim transcends all that…

A very special person told me recently that those who have no labels attached have their own label, which is consistent with that vision of reality that forms a mosaic of all the personalities that transform, live and defend the planet. Huge Cheers! Brian Longstaff.-

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