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OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
We the people, in order to form a more perfect world, do hereby declare that we will free ourselves from the tyranny of Fossil Fuels.
We know that nothing lasts forever and that if we do not use the fossil fuel energy we have available to us now to build a way of life based on renewable energy then we will be choosing life in a pre-industrial society.
We recognize that fossil fuels separate the haves from the have not’s and are the cause of massive conflicts from the Vietnam era oil fields of the Mekong delta and the South China sea to wars in the deserts of Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan and that their extraction has caused environmental devastation and social injustice from Appalachia to Australia.
Knowing that in some countries our food supply requires 10 calories of energy from fossil fuels for every calorie of food produced and that the transportation of food requires fossil fuels, we resolve to produce our food locally as it was done by our forefathers before it was controlled by multinational corporations who in the process of production have used petroleum based herbicides and pesticides that have poisoned the food, soil, water, and air, resulting in untold numbers of cancers, birth defects and diseases.
Knowing that doubling an ingredient in any recipe can lead to a disaster in the kitchen or in a chemistry lab we recognize that the delicate balance of the web of life can be drastically altered in 200 years by releasing 200 million years of stored carbon into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide from burning coal, natural gas and petroleum which has already led to desertification, environmental refugees, sea level rise, and threatens to make life miserable for billions of this planets inhabitants.
To an Empire, a Declaration of Independence is a DECLARTION OF WAR. This war is not against nations or people but against the idea that we cannot be free from dependence on an energy source controlled by the few at the expense and ruination of the many.
We hereby issue a Proclamation of Emancipation from the slavery of fossil fuel and state that from hence forward we shall not rest until our world is free from the tyranny imposed be the control of energy.
We will work towards this goal until In the future, will sit on our front porches, or in our yards, or neighborhoods, with family friends and neighbors, singing and playing acoustic music until the stars come out and shine down upon us, undimmed by the fire of fossil fuels.
With inspiration from:
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
I Hear Them All
I hear the crying of the hungry
In the deserts where they’re wandering
Hear them crying out for Heaven’s own
Benevolence upon them
Hear destructive power prevailing
I hear fools falsely hailing
To the crooked wits of tyrants when they call
I hear them all (3 times)
I hear the sounds of tearing pages
And the roar of burning paper
All the crimes in acquisition
Turn to air and ash and vapor
And the rattle of the shackle
Far beyond emancipators
And the loneliest who gather in their stalls
I hear them all (3 times)
So, while you sit and whistle Dixie
With your money and your power
I can hear the flowers a-growing
In the rubble of the towers
I hear leaders quit their lyin’
I hear babies quit their cryin’
I hear soldiers quit their dyin’, one and all
I hear them all (3 times)
I hear the tender words from Zion
I hear Noah’s waterfall
Hear the gentle lamb of Judah
Sleeping at the feet of Buddha
And the prophets from Elijah
To the old Paiute Wovoka
Take their places at the table when they’re called
I hear them all (9 times)
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