Living.
We understand that crimes against human life are just as important as crimes against other forms of life in our world. We believe in messages that recognize environmental crimes against communities like West Oakland & the South Bronx are just as pressing as those in the Western Arctic & the Southern Amazon.
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"You don't see that somethings wrong, earth's spinnin' outta control" – Mos Def
Photo by Scott La Rockwell
‘Between the greenhouse gases and earth spinnin off its axis
Got mother nature doin’ back flips
The natural disasters
It’s like 80 degrees in Alaska
You in trouble if you not an Onasis
It ain’t hard to tell that the conditions is drastic’
Released last year in April, Mos captured a much ignored issue in our communities-the neglect of the Environment. Once, I had a friend comment that there were too many other issues in disenfranchised communities in America, and furthermore, throughout the world that needed to be dealt with before the environment.
There’s no order of operations to our life.
Everything is important. Environment is as important as is the economy or the social problems or whatever else maybe prevalent in our communities. The reason the environment is neglected is because it is not, or people can not, directly connect it back to money, gold, wealth, to prosperity.
That is exactly why we must focus on the environmental degradation of our communities. Because it is the health of our environment that will yield to this prosperity or wealth. Having money doesn’t feel good when your surroundings, your environment is ugly.
This leads to a wider conversation about wealth. It’s safe to say that the most naturally beautiful parts of the world are those that hold a natural beauty. The Himalayas, the hills upon which the Great Wall of China stands, the waterfront beaches of Monaco and St. Thomas… They’re beautiful because they are Green friendly. They’re not colored black by smog and pollutants. They are also prosperous. Businesses venture to them because people will come to them.
And so, if anything, if not for the sake of our children’s health or for the beauty of our communities, how about we become green to become rich? ‘Nicer’ areas attract businesses, restaurants, better real estate. This improves our communities; it empowers them. And lets not let it take form as gentrification but rather as a revitalisation of our communities, by our own hands.
