Climate Strike
This will be a quickie post. It’s actually more of a PSA (public service announcement).
Just in case you haven’t been paying attention to the many news stories that have been circulating recently, a Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, has inspired students around the world to participate in a “Climate Strike” tomorrow, Friday, March 15, 2019.
Greta herself, a sixteen year old, has been striking from school every Friday for months. She’s attained world-wide notoriety, even addressing the uber-wealthy and powerful at the Davos Forum in Switzerland this year, calling them out on their inaction regarding this most dire of emergencies facing our planet.
She’s even been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of her astonishingly successful advocacy and activism.
I’m sure I would be thinking about this much more consciously if my sons were still in school. That’s not to say that I don’t fully support this action, because I absolutely do! In fact, I intend to show my support for the protest locally, in body and voice. I’m just saying that, had my kids still been at home (and undoubtedly participating tomorrow), I almost certainly would have written about this sooner because we would have been discussing it here at home every night.
Which is also another reason why I want to post about this tonight. If you don’t have a youngster in your household (now or ever), it’s possible this may have escaped your attention. It happens. It’s hard to keep up – so we have to stick together in this and make sure we don’t miss the big stuff.
In order to give just a little bit of a different perspective to this effort, I am providing a link to a post about this event that was just recently sent out by an organization that has a most unique approach to nature: Perelandra.
PSAs – Two for One!
I figure I’m providing two PSAs in one by writing this post on the Climate Strike. Not only am I alerting you to the fact that the youth of the world are taking part in this monumental and historic mass protest demanding immediate action on climate change, but I’m also connecting you with an amazing organization that I’ve worked with for decades.
The essences and other products of Perelandra, similar but definitely different from Bach Flower Remedies, can improve your health and bring you into balance (internally and externally) with Nature. Even better, though, is the opportunity Perelandra affords us to learn how to speak directly with Nature and work with it consciously to heal Mother Earth (and as a result, ourselves). I’ve been a fan of Machaelle Wright (the founder of Perelandra) and her products for decades.
And in spite of how that paragraph you just read sounded so much like a damn info-mercial, I have no financial interest or stake in whether you buy anything from Perelandra.
I’m simply providing a link to Perelandra’s post on tomorrow’s Climate Strike because they put together a really great compilation of resources and alternatives you can participate in if you don’t get a chance to support the strike tomorrow.
I am moved and motivated by the incredible passion and commitment these young people are showing. Sadly, they know it’s up to them. My generation has failed and continues to fail them repeatedly, a turn of events that boggles my mind.
Let’s turn this thing around. Let’s get our country on the right path – joining the rest of the world in the battle of our life. We must not give in, give up, or lose sight of the fact that not only are we humans all ‘connected.’ We are actually all one world and one people.
I know we can do this.
(T-988)