Whos Is Asking The Wind

Who is asking the wind? This is an article that I have been working on for a while and though I still feel it needs some work, I thought that I would send it out on this the 2nd day of the Copenhagen conference. I'll try to put up stuff that I find about the conference on my site if I can, I have a pretty busy week ahead. Please go to fiain.ca/witness.html for more of that. Who is asking the wind? WindWaterEarthResourceNomadEntitlementOwnership Question: Is anyone asking permission of the wind to treat it and use it as a resource? Some dear friends living in a beautiful coulee near Pincher Creek in S.W. Alberta.field to the west of them lies a large wind farm The turbines are massive structures dominating the sky The Calgary transit system gets a major part of their power from wind farms Striking in a province that holds the oil industry as a holy see. Summer 2008 a few bat biologists at the field discovered that the change in air pressure beneath the turning windmill blades isbursting the bats' lungs or maybe it's collapsingdelicate respiratory systems Thousands and thousands of deaths The researchers' suggestion was that during the bat migration period, the windmills not be set to start up until the wind reached a certain speed that the bats don't fly around in. The windmill company, who funded the study is, apparently, implementing their findings. I am sad to say that my pessimism is so entrenched that that fact came as a surprise to me. Question: Why didn't the windmill company know that their operation was going to be smack in the middle of a bat migratory path? One Answer: no true connection to the land that they were occupying. If the people of the company lived on the land forgenerations, it is

likely that they would have know that bats migrated/lived there at certain times of the year. It is also possible that if they lived on that land for generations – I mean truly lived on that land, in the deepest sense – that they would not consider for one moment putting a wind farm on that land. Or digging coal out of it or pumping crude out of it or sucking gas out of it. Wind farms rate pretty high on the environmental hit list of things that we aught to be doing about future energy needs. Of course, there is opposition from people that don't want their view wrecked, from those that are affected by the vibrations from the wind moving through the turbines. These concerns are often put down as simply self-centred. Against community Ownership/Entitlement/ResourceMany nowadays might agree that the wholesale destruction of a forest ecosystem is wrong. Many won't. Oil out of the groundCoalno one wants it in their backyard. Sour gas H2Swell there have been multiple bombings in British Columbia by folks not willing to put up with that The wind. The wind. Is anyone asking if they may take the wind? Wind powera great aura of hope for the future.of a culture to just take the wind to clear cut a forest to dig out sand full of tarto level a mountain to last grasp coal The driving influence the environmental movementthe movement to keep things the way they are and get away with it Assumptions we have the right to make use of any part of the earth that we want resource thick with assumption Environment, deep ecology, 70s onwardReferences: John A Livingston - Rogue Primate, David Ehrenfeld - The Arrogance of Humanism, Derrick Jensen – Endgame & Walking on Water, Hugh Brody - The Other Side of Eden, David Abram – The Spell of the Sensuous

Environment, the environment, whose environment? what environment?The term environment is a relative term.We must save OUR environment John A Livingston and others have said that the environmental movement is little more than an effort to keep things where they are and get away with it. Livingston said this decades ago and in a CBC Ideas radio interview said that he can not, will not call himself an environmentalist Truly, he was a naturalist of the deepest sort howI wish that I had had the chance to meet him Who killed the electric car?fuckI'll kill the electric carThe roads that it rolls ona highway might as well be a fence says the daor Mark Connellkeep the wild at bay and awayfrom it's given pathsultimate new green way technology gone goodelectric carHere we are back to coalpeeling back mountains to grease up our handsshove them up the ass of progress wind, solar, no harm at all except the mine, the industry, the polluted water, earthblessed technology the wind … solar … for that matter, who is asking the Sun?is the Sahara ok with Europe putting their reflective selves on the sand the power that will be foreverthere is nothing there anyway arrogance entitlement shocking.the shame is profoundand deep nomadIs the nomad a traveler? one that knows the landthe ground that the bird seesfrom so many points of viewthe scent of springthe raw earthbrings the new placethe time to moveto the summer Someone to whom the windspeaks and tellsAsksbut moves on without an answer Is this traveling or being in the same - Place? What is someone who drives for 1,2,3,4 hours a day to a job? not knowing the land that they put their tread imprint upon? At all can't go back Can't go backwhat that means in truth?go forward?

Forward to where ?The death of the oceans? The air? The land? The lakes and rivers? To ever deepening magical technological interventions? To climate war? To nuclear war? To authoritarian governments? we certainly can go back to any of the sort mentioned abovestone age living better than you can imagineobviously A number of years ago I made a pledge to devote the rest of my life, my work to finding a way back/forward to a way of being with the wild earth. I was on the banks of the French RiverWemitigoj-SibiNorthern Central OntarioJust before I drove thousands of km on a Canada wide solo music tourmerde As Derrick Jensen so beautifully puts it and I here respectfully and with honour, steal. I have hammered in my picket pin and am will not move until the world that I love is saved. I present my life to that cause and I cannot be stopped. can not be stopped I think of dear Katea dancer a choreographer how would I be able to dance?I reckon we can just start moving our feet Now wherever you and I happen to be and we will take it from there