Not Fake News: We are surrounded by Eden
By ROBERT SEIDLER
Every bit of what we read as news is fake. Sure there is about one-tenth of a percent that’s true but we ignore that because it doesn’t fit our agendas.
That little .1% will obliterate that 99.9% in time if we continue to ignore it. That .1% deals with our spaceship flying through the cosmos while suppling air, water, food and heat and cold. It’s free you do however need to pay attention if you don’t pay for it directly.
There is no plan(et) B there are no birds without lots of bugs. There is no oxygen without lots of plants and most of them in the seas. There are many fewer fish without mosquito larva even the hazardous no see ums have an aquatic stage that fuels our estuaries with food stock that the tiny creatures eat and they get eaten by the small fry of the fishes we eat when they are grown. No no see ums many less fish for us to eat.
You can believe this is fantasy, or not notice or care but it is law and real law that can’t be broken by humans and these and the other laws of nature cannot ever yield. No amending, no hiding no different outcome than that intended. Break these laws and get no water, no food and no air.
I had the pleasure to be part of the oyster aquaculture start up group about 8 years ago. I traveled to Europe and Japan to see how and why they did what they did for hundreds of years in regards to the cultivation of oysters.
Water quality turned out to be key to longevity and success. Caring about water became their “ways” and the water provided and still provides.
I came home to the belief and actuality that “water is god” – take care of water, all living things are mostly water around 70% so maybe 70% of our thoughts and plans should be here not at Walmart or watching the Fox.
The Fox is poisoning our minds with irrelative trash and hate it is the #1 of Fake News. But all the media none excluded are Fake News. They omit the essence of life, love and happiness for all the things connected and dependent on the spaceship…earth!
Every day we should thank it, honor it, protect it and fight for its health…every day and this is proven as the most important feature about our life and we ignore the “earth” damage the earth, exploit the earth and all of its interwoven processes.
Oysters are a keystone species and hundreds maybe thousands of little critters use them for food, shelter and habitat. Bigger critters like Black Drum just eat young oysters and it’s their main foodstuff. Well after we added oysters to the estuary again the biodiversity returned very quickly.
Amazingly fast just a couple of years. Monster schools of drum roam the leases. Crabs of all types dozens of species show up in the oyster baskets. Hundreds of living creatures I had never seen returned to the bay.
There is no Fake News here this is life and living and function with oysters improving water quality and diversity to marine and terrestrial environments.
Fishes grow fast about a foot a year well everything grows fast in the water – it’s 400 times denser than air and it’s zero gravity to most creatures too. Energy isn’t wasted fighting gravity you see.
You get light flakey filets not tough stringy red meat. Thank you water!
The real news is you can find the real news and leave the fake News behind but you have to start noticing and that’s the Eden that’s around all of us each day. It’s run by the planet and evolution not magic or some guy or girl in the clouds it’s water powered and fueled by oxygen and carbon dioxide in a dance.
It happens even when we take no actions, we breathe, drink water, fish and never notice Eden.
It’s time to notice and get involved because it’s payback time. Leave the fake News and watch the natural and real news going on around you. Toss your pesticides away, protect the water, the bugs, the plant and the animals or you lose them all.
There is no plan(et) B or plan B or other choice. Learning and understanding IS now the only choice.
Starvation, dehydration and disease will deliver this news unless we wake up and it will not be fake or be amended or anything but real.
The real news is we are surrounded by Eden and also a working part of it and not apart from it. Noticing what actually provides us with air, water, food, heat and cold was the most important part of all the native peoples that came before us. 750 generations of those people lived in the Ochlocknee basin that encircles my home. Their gigantic kitchen mounds of recycled food shells rise high enough to protect them from hurricanes which they did.
Their spirits are still here as are their atoms and impacts on the ecosystems. 750 generations is quite a run at civilization but there Eden was real and the only way and place they ever knew.
Our civilized ways destroyed them and their cultures. Our forced so-called laws trampled, and in the short term underminded their real laws.
Nature and the planet owns all the real laws and they cannot be cheated or denied. Time always presents them without regard to species, sex, wealth, education or power.
Those laws will reduce all us humans to helpless little primates hoping to find food, water, air, heat and cold once again.
What should be on our currency? “In dubio pro natura” that would be the first step in saving us.
Robert Seidler is a filmmaker in Sopchoppy.