Super-organized indigenous people and a spectacular short documentary

I receive www.ecoportal.net’s weekly newsletter, a web site written by a wide team of professionals regarding environmental matters, which publishes different articles on several global topics. It is an excellent source of information for this web site as well and I strongly recommend you to subscribe to its newsletters.

Last week, they shared the Servindi Intercultural Communication Services’ link, which is another web site which seeks to solidify the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE´S VOICE on behalf of the environmental problems which concern them, as they were kicked out of their natural resources during hundreds of years…

You can not only download tons of information (in fact, they enhance you to extract info from the web site, in order to expand the claims of the indigenous people throughout the world), but listen to short online radio broadcasts, where they update you on ecological news which are related with the indigenous peoples’ reality. It is worth checking this web site once a week.

I now leave you a short documentary, with excellent visual, which took 7 years of production and is now available for it to circulate freely through everybody’s consciousness. It is called “There is no tomorrow” and was directed by the Irish professional animator, Dermot O’Connor.

It is a very sad title, and it could be… who knows? Every time I talk with students, friends, professionals who share an ecological, integral, sustainable view of the social and environmental reality, we arrive to the same conclusion:

If we manage to act as ONE species in protecting our home within the Cosmos, then we will change things around and will push on through… Because the technology already exists; we only have to transmute it into our minds, bring it into consciousness and feel that the changes required are something evident to do, and not like some wacky idea which will stipe us off our occidental living commodities…

If we do not manage to push on through (if there really is no tomorrow), it will be because our species did not really deserve its self-aware aptitude and did not know how to take care of itself; he let the ego and arrogance get hold of its destructive living habits . If this is so, it is worth dying trying to change things around, rather than not doing anything at all.

Sometimes, I get the feeling that the end is no longer important, the objective, reaching sustainability… but it is worth aiming towards it… We need to get down on it as soon as possible, and this is achievable by moving the objective aside, which seems so unreachable, out of minded, impossible, and open to criticism. Simply starting up, first from our personal living and then into our actions towards this feeling of change.

I sometimes put myself in a philosophical position, which is almost inevitable: it is cold in the Argentinian flatlands, there is a lot of wind, clouds and a feeling of personal introspective thoughts regarding the environment.

If this week gives you a rest, give the short documentary a try, it is only half an hour!

Cheers!,

Brian Longstaff.-

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