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