Great Lakes draining away
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Posted on August 15, 2007
Filed Under Global warming/Climate change, Ecological hope, Environmental disasters, Earth spirituality, Inspiration and reflection
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Today from Margaret Swedish:
A follow-up from yesterday. Not surprisingly, the story about the low water levels in three of the Great Lakes — Michigan, Superior and Huron — made it onto the front pages of the Milwaukee Jouornal-Sentinel this morning. I leave you to the link and this very disturbing article.
The Great Lakes are draining away — thanks to our favorite US Army Corps of Engineers, that metaphor for all that is wrong with our relationship with Nature — along with help from a warming globe, climate change, changing weather patterns (like drought and decreased winter snow cover).
The study cited here was conducted by a group of Canadian property owners, the Georgian Bay Association. You can read more about the study at this link.
Imagine 50 years from now if we don’t figure out how to stop this. Imagine our depleted lakes, their ecosystems eroded or destroyed, while the demand for fresh water increases exponentially.
The good news is how many people are rallying to defend the lakes and their lush ecosystems. For example, Great Lakes United, an international group, and the Alliance for the Great Lakes. You can get lots more info from these sites, both the bad news regarding the threats to the lake and the good news about what we can do about it.
We don’t want to believe that our human behavior can destroy anything so marvelous and large, but we are doing it — here as in many parts of the world — by our reckless often selfish behavior, by our disbelief that my life can do so much harm. But then, we are ruining whole oceans, for heaven’s sake.
These waters are source of our birth, beginnings of life, our womb, our sustenance. The Great Lakes were born out of glaciers, carved out by ice and melting ice. They don’t belong to us. They are not ours to possess or destroy. They are for us only to be honored, respected, to be used only in the balance of Nature, and protected for the next generation and for all those that come after us.
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