The world needs soldiers
Posted by Dis Domnu on February 13, 2009
Our planet, our home, is in danger. It is being harmed by our actions, and we know this. We know this, and we continue to act as though nothing is wrong. We want to think that we can sit back and enjoy ourselves without any responsibilities. If there’s damage to the environment, we can always get the government to fix it! This sort of thinking has allowed the situation to last far longer than it should have. We, as humans, should have recognized the damage we were doing to our home. We should have reversed our actions, and adopted new policies. Instead we ignored the problem.
Yes, some of us took action, but not nearly enough. The issue was confused, and the people who did not care about the world were able to spin the information into something unrecognizable. Until recently, the debate continued as to whether humans caused global climate change, or whether climate change even existed. I still see people claiming that it does not exist. That is how deeply rooted this problem is.
The world needs my brothers and sisters, who have dedicated themselves to healing the land. It needs them desperately, but their healing work cannot go forward while the enemy continues to pillage the world. You cannot heal a man who is being tortured to death while you work. We cannot heal the land while it is continually destroyed. We do not have the resources available to heal all the wounds being inflicted around the world.
What the world needs is soldiers. The world needs people who are not only willing to heal it, but who will go out and challenge those who are harming it. Their ability to do such great damage to the world needs to be removed. Their weapons must be broken, and their will to combat must be shattered. The world needs men and women willing to dedicate themselves to this fight; it needs men and women willing to use whatever skills they have to tear down the strongholds of those who think it their right to attack our home.
The world needs soldiers to defend it just as much as it needs healers to repair the damages done to it.
Bryson Nitta said
Hmm…what do you mean by “soldiers?”
Are you advocating for militant environmentalism?
Dis Domnu said
Not quite. That sort of thing wouldn’t be very well tolerated in the United States, but remaining passive isn’t good either. I know plenty of people who think that all that needs to happen is a few more government regulations. I know people who are perfectly prepared to repair damage, but not prepared to go out and stop it.
In the case of Western culture, including America and Europe, soldiers have the ability to use words to greater effect than bombs and bullets.