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hes and walk about with their brothers in the shade, doing nothing.</i></p><p id="0c98"><i>What I want should not be confused with total inactivity. Life is what it is about; I want no truck with death.</i></p><p id="a708"><i>If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence</i></p><p id="a475"><i>might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death.</i></p><p id="10ff"><i>Perhaps the earth can teach us as when everything seems dead and later proves to be alive.</i></p><p id="05d9"><i>Now I’ll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.</i></p><h2 id="fcce">The Reckoning.</h2><p id="c53c">Looking back, it has been gathering momentum, the mad rush to achieve what we want, at any cost:</p><p id="0f33">To reap the seas leaving plastic in our wake.</p><p id="e9e3">To demolish swathes of virgin forest, leaving desolation.<

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/p><p id="e2fa">To channel rivers where we want them to go, leaving ecological wastelands.</p><p id="373d">To wage wars for our own ends, leaving trails of broken people,</p><p id="887c">Children sobbing, mothers weeping, fathers forlorn,</p><p id="e174">A march to foreign borders, forsaking safety.</p><p id="8016">Where will it end?</p><p id="e9ee">And now, a pestilence rages across our world, leaving devastation in its path.</p><p id="a3f7"><i>But, giving us the opportunity to pause and reflect.</i></p><h2 id="0b41">It is Time:</h2><h2 id="e9fe">Nature and the universe agreed, it’s time to take stock.</h2><p id="7c23"><i>For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much.</i></p><p id="b99a"><i>Now I’ll count up to twelve and you keep quiet and I will go.</i></p><p id="255b">Lynette Clements. 2020. The simplicity of language, the urgency of need.</p></article></body>

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