When are two pictures worth ten thousand pictures?

Two pictures.   This scenario is playing out in thousands of places on our ball of dirt.  Two pictures cannot say it all.  Yet they reverberate and harmonize across the Planet.  Languages, cultural practices, survival skills.  We are losing more than what we have destroyed, a cruel synergism.

From Siberia

The loss of permafrost threatens to extinguish a culture of Raindeer peoples, and others, I don't know what all. 

From the New York Times. 

 “At some point they talked about abandoning the village, but people did not want to move out,” said Octyabrina R. Novoseltseva, chairwoman of the Northern Indigenous People’s Association in the Srednekolymsk region. “They would lose everything, the culture would all disappear.”

From Kiribati and the Marshall Islands

 Does this sound familiar? Sea Level Rise...

And yet, while we’ve long known the dangers global warming poses to low-lying island nations like Kiribati, the world may not realize that Kiribati is also grappling with climate denialism, even as it faces the reality of being wiped from the map by 2100. The current president, Taneti Maamau, believes that while climate change is real, it is not man-made. Consequently, Maamau has announced his government’s official intention to “put aside the misleading and pessimistic scenario of a sinking, deserted nation.”

This is a statement from a Washington Post article by a former president of Kiribati.

 

All over Earth, cultures are being lost.  While the Military-Industrial complex reminds one of a giant snow ball, growing and growing while it tumbles headlong, wreaking destruction all on it's path.  Everywhere I go, it's different.  And it's the same.

As an environmental educator, I had to recognize that my generation will not be able to right the ship.  There is no time.  Again, as an educator you ask "what can one person possibly do?"

It belongs to the kids

"We did not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; he have borrowed it from our children."  

Who said that?

We must give the tools to the kids to fix the broken system they are inheriting from foregoing generations.