Women Spreading Seeds of Hope
An empowering creation story
I recently started listening to an audiobook “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Now I know the real creation story — the one where a woman comes from the sky and with the help of the animals, she gets earth from deep under the water and starts our world on the back of a turtle. She brings with her seeds and because of her love and care, the plants grow.
This creation story is so much more empowering for women than hearing about Eve being punished for eating a piece of fruit. Now wonder we let ourselves be trampled by men. Men — who subconsciously or consciously blame us for there not being heave on earth.
We women need to feel proud of our spirit ancestor from the sky (even if we aren’t Native American) and all she achieved. We need to do what she did — plant seeds and revitalize the earth with the help once again from our friends in the animal world.
Scientists are not Gods — and we won’t be saved by more technology or another app
If we respect and admire the natural world, hopefully we will be able to close our ears to the scientists that are still acting like God. They got us into this mess and they have the audacity to think they can get us out of it. When will we ever learn?
In Australia, when we were overcome with cane beetles, we let the scientists introduce cane toads from overseas to “fix the problem”. Now we are overcome with them and they have killed large numbers of our native fauna.
When we are ill, we take their medications only to find out later that often the side effects are far worse than the original illness ever was. There are even mental health “medications” that make people feel suicidal as a side effect. How crazy is that?
Sure we now have solar and wind power and electric cars. But the batteries needed in these cars require a lot of energy to be produced. One step forward, but also a step back. Science never seems to get it fully right. Because scientists don’t ever consider the full picture. They can’t predict all the outcomes, because they aren’t all-seeing and all-knowing Gods. They are just doing their job, earning their money — just like the rest of us.
They can’t do better than nature
It is their egos — male and female that make them feel that they can do a better job than nature itself. And now they are meddling with the very core of our beings — our DNA and combining genes from plants and animals and doing all kinds of other manipulations.
I was dismayed this week when a woman in the Sierra Club I belong to said (when I voiced my concerns about gene editing), how she would try new gene therapies if she had cancer. But she can’t help it. As a former science teacher she’s been brainwashed into thinking scientists can do anything. I know how easy it is to fall into this way of thinking. I have a science degree myself.
Well yes they can do anything. But should they? I practice Transcendental Meditation (TM) and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi — the guru that introduced it in the west, asked Dr. John Fagan years ago to give back the grant money he had received for biotechnology gene manipulation research. If he was enlightened (and I believe he was having met him once and felt the effect of that), perhaps he had a better intuition of the future and all its danger than most of us do. He himself had studied science and loved talking about science and he encouraged scientists to do research on TM. He was definitely not anti-science. But he was strongly against GMOs and gene manipulation.
They are already mixing plant and animal genes and even the gene technology tools themselves like CRISPr have become cheap enough for people to do this sort of things in their home labs. So they’ve already started.
China has put a doctor in jail that cloned a baby even after they told him not to. But I can’t see that doing that in other countries because too many people treat scientists like Gods. Sensible scientists may help slow them down a little by helping us establish more regulations. But I think our only real hope is that if we use money to lure them down some rabbit hole like rats. We need to lead them somewhere so they can’t do any more damage.
What can we do to change the trajectory?
If we give the biotechnology scientists great jobs and pay them to work on far more necessary things than gene manipulation, that could help us not only stop the genetic nightmare we are being cast into, but it could even help the world in other ways.
For example, we could have them work on finding ways to use native plants for food or clothing. Aboriginals years ago found that if they put certain fruits in running water for a few days, that it leached the toxins out of them so that they were then safe to eat. Yet most people have no idea how to make use of native plants. There is plenty for them to work on. We just need a wealthy backer to be the pied piper for humanity.
Native plants like prairie seeds grow more easily because they are adapted to the soils and climate of our country and they put down far deeper roots and sequester more carbon.
As Ronnie Cummins said launching his book “Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and a Green New Deal” recently, regenerative agriculture contains the “shovel ready solutions” necessary to help us. We can implement these solutions now. We don’t need to wait for science to try and fix climate change (and probably create more problems down the line in doing so).
It’s been reassuring recently to watch the premiere of a new documentary called “Peace With Nature in Costa Rica” directed by Stuart Tanner. It outlined how all it took to get farmers to preserve their existing trees and grow more, thereby doubling the countries forests was a bit of money and encouragement. Farmers were also given incentives to grow green living fences, to use organic farming practices and to improve the quality of their soil.
There are lots of people who want to act to help prevent climate change and who are willing to drop everything and act. They just need a little bit of money to help feed and house themselves while they help farmers transform their acres into sequestration success stories. And the farmers need some compensation so they can afford to let them do this.
Money has been the cause of great anguish for many of us, but it is also a tool which, if used wisely, could help save the world. We can’t wait for the politicians.
So in writing this blog, I am reaching out to billionaires — billionaires like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Michael Bloomberg, Sergey Brin, Carlos Slim Helu, Gina Rinehart, Tom Steyer, Harry Triguboff, Vivek Chaand Sehgal, Frank Lowy, Anthony Pratt, Andrew Forrest, John Gandel, James Packer, Sir Richard Branson and so on.
Please help us save the world from destruction from both the pollution and energy contributing to climate catastrophes and/or from the effects of the genetic engineering. With your help we could easily form an army to dig deep and use regenerative agriculture (growing both native food plants and normal food species) to save the world and restore our connections to nature.
