After a sloppy snowstorm that started on Sunday, this day dawned in pacific tranquility. The slowly melting snow pack, formed by the soggy snow over the crusty winter snow-remains, is a fitting Earth Day setting for spring on this Superior Peninsula.Since I left the moderating winter weather of Hudson Bay last week, I have been slogging through getting back into a domestic mindset of reestablishing the rituals of home and hearth obligation. No more sustained nomadism on the tundra and obligation to dog team and camp life.
Earth Day, a spiritual sister to Easter, is here with little societal reverence or acknowledgment. Planting trees is one bit of homage that I'll indulge in, though planting at a bit more southern latitude makes more sense if in conjunction with this date. And my planting is also a bit self-serving (on my own land), but couched in a biocentric sensibility.
Joseph Romm, climate change thinker and gadfly, writes on Alternet :
http://www.alternet.org/water/137586/on_earth_day%2C_forget_about_the_planet_--_we%27re_the_ones_who_are_screwed/
Romm believes that the concept of an Earth Day is flawed and somehow hypocritical - that what we need is to relate to the baser human world-view of anthropocentrism to get people on board and vested in the anti-climate change movement. At least that is my reading of what he is cynically (but wisely) getting at. He may be right...
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