Barry Dana: Recreate Sustainability with trillions spent on conflicts 874ConversionPressorDana 1
Channel: PeaceActionMaine
Date: 13/08/2019

Good morning. My name is Barry Dana….(former…current Chief.) I am Wabanaki , that’s this land’s first people, indigenous people.
I was asked to come here today to talk about the native perspective and how we live with the earth. And that message that I bring- I was given from my elders who are now ancestors. And it’s very simple.
Love the earth. Treat the earth as you  treat your own mother.(and I hope you treat your mothers well because if you’re treating your mother like the earth, we’re in trouble.) Do no harm to the earth or that harm shall fall upon you and future generations. This message is probably more important now than it was then. It got me on the right path.
But now that message has to be delivered to everyone so we all are on the right path.

We’re living today as though we have infinite resources. Infinite growth. And that is unsustainable. If we’re simply asked    by the creator, by our mother to do no harm-then we’re failing. Why? Because of greed. Because of war. War for oil. Just for our entitled little life styles that we all live. It’s time to stop the fighting. It’s time to “re-create”-that’s my word-instead of “convert”. Re-create so we’re creating. We have to start anew. We have to return to ways in which..are sustainable with the planet. Living in balance is simply living local. We spend trillions of dollars annually on conflicts around the world. Why can’t those trillions be dedicated towards solving those problems?  Where every country, every person can live locally.  Do your own food. Do everything yourself. Do everything ourselves as a country. If we want America to be great, we need to make the world great. So let’s start here, let’s start now. Let’s continue this path to make the world sustainable, healthy so that we make a planet for future generations, one that works for all of us. All my relations.