So now it is TWO YEARS since...

[Niri Te]

There is a thing we could call inertia of spirit. There are probably those who make their millions from raping the earth, that probably saw the movie, (it WAS that popular), who then thought, "Great graphics, REALLY cool model making, and a state of the art computer system has made an escapist story VERY believable".
Those of us who were already struggling to live within the bounds of environmental sanity, and those who were open minded, but somewhat undecided as to what the ecological truths were, took a different message from the experience, however. They, meaning WE, took it as a call to action. A story line that was fictional, for the sake of entertainment, but the underlying thrust of the movie was a great allegory on just what is happening to the planet.
Has the movie CHANGED that much? I don't think so, what it HAS done though, is brought more folks to the realization of how badly unbridled greed can blind people, and institutions to it's dark underbelly.
I think that it has solidified the battle lines, so to speak, in the upcoming war of the minds over the future of this planet.
Ateyo te syaksyuk and I moved out to the county in Texas with, by far, the lowest population density. Purely rural, consisting of very spread out farms and ranches that are measured not in acres, but in sections.
Seven years after we moved out here in 2003, it was discovered that there are Rare Earth deposits under three of the mountains in Hudspeth County. two of them within thirty miles of our place.
There is this desert lizard that is indigenous to this area that has been declared endangered, that will shut down a lot of oil drilling in the several hundred square mile area that we live in the middle of, but will likely not even slow down the exploratory drilling at the base of those mountains because of the magic six words, "In the Interest of National Security".
We will see what happens, but as the quality of life, and environmental purity of this county goes straight into the toilet, the land values will go right through the ceiling. When we lose all the legal challenges that we can mount
against the firms that can smell the many millions that can be made ripping the earth open, (The only REALISTIC "war" we can make on "the company"), and Eywa does not come to our aid, the two of us will sell our 80 acres with it's private airstrip for a bunch of money, get a large sailboat, and sail it down to one of the largely uninhabited island Archipelagos, and SHOOT ANYONE who comws within gun scope equipped range of our boat.
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Niri Te