Request

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Use of Fossil Fuels 

alters cycles 

of Earth, 

our beloved Home,

on whom 

we depend 

for Life itself.  

Using these 

non-renewable 

resources 

with reckless abandon,
hopeless naivete,
or Human arrogance

is go down a path

of aborting Life itself.  

Surely we did not 

come here 

to do that.

I am someone 

who grows Food.  

I have front row seats 

watching the relationship 

between Climate Change 

and our potential 

for sustaining Life.  

I am a Mother 

and someone 

of Grandmother age.  

With the years 

and experiences I bring, 

I see intimately 

how our actions 

influence others, 

particularly 

those yet to come.

I request

we each cut back 

on Fossil Fuels 

and move 

toward renewable sources.  

It's pretty easy.

At its core,
it's a request 

to adopt practices 

which sustain Life

rather than seek 

to destroy it.

Why would we
even consider

anything else?

~~~~

Glinda Crawford, 2011

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