To begin with, no civilized human being recognizes themselves as The Creator, The Divine, the Maker of All, and since no organic creation has achieved the impact on God’s creation that the human organism has, the responsibility of recognizing this Anthropocene reality also requires the humility that we, each of us, are but servants, not its orchestrator! Our food-chain dominance may require the sustenance of lower life forms but, unless one is Satanic and believes cannibalism is human nature, we have no prerogative to terminate, even for punishment (nor as for that which the death penalty is normally instituted) intending to deter others from amoral behavior, we cannot judge the end of another human-being’s existence. Is that not what we are doing discarding with no regard, non-biodegradable waste into the biosphere?
We must stop the Trump-ing of all our civilized human awareness generated since the dawn of the written word. The only non-violent means through which this can achieved subsuming our democracy is through mobilized protest! Come join Juneau’s sister March and congregate in front of our State Capitol Saturday at noon.
John S. Sonin
Juneau