MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PIRATES
Captain Paul Watson and his volunteer crew have been called lawless pirates, bleeding-heart ecofreaks, seal huggers—and other endearing names. Why? Because they’re the fiercest earth warriors watching over the high seas. These extraordinary women and men risk their own lives to protect seals, dolphins, whales, and anyone else under attack from a poacher’s harpoon, spiked club, or bullet.
Show your support for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Buy SSCS T-shirts, caps, and books. Or send a few bucks. (C’mon, dude, you don’t really need that pedicure, do ya?) Unlike with many wildlife organizations, your contribution won’t get frittered away on “bureaucratic overhead.”
Let’s keep Sea Shepherd sailing strong for another 30 years.
Check out Peter Heller’s excellent National Geographic article, Whale Warriors.
LIVE TRUE WITH EARTH
GENERATE THE LEAST AMOUNT OF GARBAGE POSSIBLE
Making the shift to vegan living, you’ll be cleanin’ house. Recycle unwanted leather shoes, wool sweaters, and other animal “products.” Donate items to a local thrift shop to be reused. This way you won’t be adding another mountain of crap in the dumpster.
Everything in dumpsters ends up in landfills. Space on earth is finite. And landfills are pollution to the planet and people, especially those unlucky enough to live next door to one.
A less desirable but effective alternative is to keep wearing the leather shoes and wool sweaters you have until they wear out. Then replace them with vegan options.
But you wonder what difference your actions alone will make when many other folks are doing just the opposite. Each one of us who chooses to live with the natural world helps the land, the sea, and the air.
Suppose everyone was mucking up the earth. Would that make it okay to surrender?
Or, despite doom, would you walk true with yourself and create your own path?
The way of the natural warrior often means traveling a rough road through so-called civilization, but to live a life more ordinary—and be less than all you are—is hell.
Because then you never existed.
Remake civilization. Be the kind of person you want to see in the world.
MITAKUYE OYASIN
In Lakota this means
“all my relations” or
“we are all related.”
