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Restore Our Earth
April 22, Earth Day 2021
By John Towndrow
lthough Earth Day has been
Aaround for 50 years, the urgency
to care for and restore Mother Earth
has never been greater. Earthday.org
reminds us, “When life around the
globe returns to normal, our world
cannot return to business-as-usual.”
But what does this mean? Earthday.
org explains, “Our global community
has been shocked by the largest global
crisis in a generation. COVID-19 has
Photo Susan Towndrow
shown us the necessity of thinking
ahead, but the next crises are already million species weaving the thin layer
on their way. Climate change, species of life enveloping the world.
loss, pandemics, and massive natural • The stability of communities
disasters might define the future — of living things depends upon this
unless we do something now. We diversity.
have the solutions, both natural and • Linked in that web, we are
technological. We just need the will.” interconnected — using, cleansing,
2021 also marks the 30th anniversary sharing, and replenishing the
of the Declaration of Interdependence, fundamental elements of life.
created in 1991 by the David Suzuki • Our home, planet Earth, is finite;
Foundation. The declaration reminds all life shares its resources and the
us that as we work toward a recovery energy from the sun, and therefore has
from the pandemic, there are things limits to growth.
we can and must do to put us on a • For the first time, we have touched
path to a sustainable, resilient, and those limits.
equitable future for us all. • When we compromise the air, the
Declaration of Interdependence water, the soil, and the variety of life,
(David Suzuki Foundation) we steal from the endless future to
This we know: serve the fleeting present. Planting the Tiny Forest at the Cornwall Public Library
Photo Susan Towndrow
• We are the earth, through the This we believe:
plants and animals that nourish us. • Humans have become so numerous need for clean air, water, and soil. walk after us and err on the side of
• We are the rains and the oceans and our tools so powerful that we have • We see that economic activities caution.
that flow through our veins. driven fellow creatures to extinction, that benefit the few while shrinking This we resolve:
• We are the breath of the forests of dammed the great rivers, torn down the inheritance of many are wrong. All this that we know and believe
the land, and the plants of the sea. ancient forests, poisoned the earth, • And since environmental must now become the foundation of
• We are human animals, related rain and wind, and ripped holes in the the way we live. At this turning point
to all other life as descendants of the sky. degradation erodes biological capital in our relationship with Earth, we work
firstborn cell. • Our science has brought pain as forever, full ecological and social for an evolution: from dominance
We share with these kin a common well as joy; our comfort is paid for by cost must enter all equations of to partnership; from fragmentation
history, written in our genes. the suffering of millions. development. to connection; from insecurity to
• We share a common present, filled • We are learning from our mistakes, •We are one brief generation in the interdependence.
with uncertainty. we are mourning our vanished kin, long march of time; the future is not For more information and to get on our
• And we share a common future, as and we now build a new politics of ours to erase. mailing list: transitioncornwall.com
yet untold. hope. • So, where knowledge is limited,
• We humans are but one of thirty • We respect and uphold the absolute we will remember all those who will Earth Day Canada: https:/earthday.ca.
