TEST TIDBITS: THE DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE— PART ONE

In 1989, David Suzuki, a Canadian radio host did a series of programs he called,” It’s a Matter of survival”.  He was an early believer that much of the damage to our planet was caused by humans. His ideas caught fire and an environmental foundation that operates to this day was formed.  In 1992 he and others penned this Declaration of Interdependence and presented it to the climate summit in Rio de Janeiro.  The declaration is broken into three parts (knowing, believing and resolving).  Below is part one:

                                         WHAT WE KNOW

We are the earth, through the plants and animals that nourish us.  We are the rains and the oceans that flow through our veins.  We are the breath of the forests of the land and the plants of the sea.  We are human animals, related to all other life as descendants of the firstborn cell.  We share with these kin a common history, written in our genes.  We share a common present, filled with uncertainty.  We share a common future, as yet untold.  We humans are but one of 30 million species, weaving the thin layer of life enveloping the world.  The stability of communities of living things depends upon this diversity.  Linked in that web, we are interconnected-using, cleansing, sharing, and replenishing the fundamental elements of life. Our home, planet earth, is finite; all life shares its resources and the energy from the sun, and therefore has limits to growth.  For the first time, we have touched those limits.  When we compromise the air, the water, the soil, and the variety of life, we steal from the endless future to serve the fleeting present. ( parts 2 & 3 next weeks).

EARTH STEWARD ACTION: Take time to read about the Suzuki Foundation—links below)

SOURCE: https://www.davidsuzuki.org