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By: Gabrielle Francis Conrad-Amlicke, MSW September 26, 2019
Uncategorizeddeep ecology, environmental justice, environmental racism, environmental social work, environmentalblog, environmentaljustice, poem, politicalpoetry, socialwork, systems of oppression, youth

A Poem; Not Advocacy

Envy is what drives us and to surrender to emotions that mute us — envy results in suspending the mind from movement. Without movement, we are silent observers.

Envious of what the earth could be. Dreamers dream; far from pollution- the rising toxicity of their environment. They envy those who are now dead, those who lived free from contamination.

The materials which assisted in their birth are now their demines.

More born, more educated, more rapid human progress… only now it comes to light, we are our demise.

The platforms I see you on, venting frustration; you seem to live in hate at the moment. It is not hate; you know this. It is envy. The dawn of logical and scientific progress is that which triggers hysteria; present day.

If not for science, where would we be. If not for development where would we be?

What results would come too if nothing had occurred and we stay suspended?

Would the earth be “clean” “green” “sustainable”? See language is a tool.

But we live life without a guide. If we killed god.

Or maybe we are the same in one-

You can not remove the riptide wave from the ocean; a wave cannot be conceptualized as a single entity. Are we all one on this planet?

Science tells us that we are all one and the same; the natural environment and the body are the same materials. Movement is constant; feedback loops persistent.

Movement was not made by hands seeking doom. The movement was made out of envy and questioning how life could be.

The scientific method without a guide.

We question or hypothesize and seek solutions. The human condition is intersected by the light human hand time and time again.

The new hands will find solutions. Once the “environment” “earth” or “natural world” what have you become a deity will we follow it, serve it, surrender to it.

Do we envy the idea of a world where the planet is our god? Surrendering to multiple gods.

We must consider that civilizations that lived in this way serving multiple nature-oriented gods.

…they all still came to their demise.

Envy drives wars. There is always a winner or loser. AS we take back the earth, we’ll wash the blood of thousands off our hands.

Unless those in power now are thought of as vulnerable. The plastic producing plant shuts down- each worker has a family- each family member is now a casualty.

Our oceans grew hot, so we made them run red.

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Uncategorizeddeep ecology, environmental justice, environmental racism, environmental social work, environmentalblog, environmentaljustice, poem, politicalpoetry, socialwork, systems of oppression, youth
Posted by:Gabrielle Francis Conrad-Amlicke, MSW

Advocate for Environmental Social Work & CEO Founder Environmental Social Work LLC

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