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An ECO WORLD

At GreenPolicy360, there is a thought that comes 'n goes, a drifting thought about the beginnings, ancient beginnings, and south of the Great Rift Valley in 'the old world when all was green'.

The ancient peoples now call it 'a Zambezi world'. Others call the Rift, where the Continent was hewn, 'Humanity's Birthplace'. An eco world calls to us.

Today, we're singing of how we, humanity, came out of Africa and we're looking at images of the Rift taken from the International Space Station in a flat, desolate, barren flatlands that's south of the Zambezi.... in the San world of the indigenous people, the aborigine. Some say these people are the oldest old tribe of ancients left in this modern world.

The Stars Above

The ancient San people in the Zambia-Zambezi region 'talk to the stars' they say. Their world used to be rich they explain. Now most all of what used to be the richness is gone.

They feel sorry for us, for we are 'ill' they say in an attempt at comforting, because we cannot 'talk to the stars' as they do, so there must be something wrong with us.

And we remember Carl Sagan now who spoke of 'science' of the stars and how we are 'made from stars' and so we feel better, but most all of us cannot _feel the stars that we came from_ .....

Photo Courtesy of Andrew McCarthy

Stardust Origins

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We are Made of Stars...

“We are all stardust”

― Carl Sagan

An Eco Worldview of an Origins Tribe Called the San People

Believe -- It's All Related -- the San Understand

SJS: From the Rift the ancient ones move on ... out of Africa and thousands of years later we can still listen to the few voices left of ancient wisdom....

We listen to how they speak of power, of rich homelands, and how in olden days they lived in a path of beauty, before them and behind them, how they walked in beauty, in and of nature. Today what is left is a memory, memories and riddles, the old ones, 'Anasazi' as some are called in the Americas. The ancient ones, the old ones, the few who are left in the modern world, tell their stories.

The green that they believed was forever is gone. What was is memory. What the moderns call savannas is no longer in the world south of the Rift in the Zambezi world. What is left is in the north, far away, out of sight. The days of vast green plains with vast beyond-eyesight herds of wild animals are long gone. The trees and their entwined canopies that used to call to us are mostly gone, as remnant trees, like sentinels stands desolate amid the baked plains now.

Those rains with life giving water, those was no drought, what was drought, the waters of life are not to be found without traveling far, far, far to the North, following the stars that talk to the San, and the San are of them, and speak to them and tell stories and speak of sounds of the Great River itself and rushing water cascading and the stories sing of Seas beyond, a Great Ocean where the Sun rises... and the stars above from where the San are from...

The ancient San people have faded away these days and the few wandering tribe remnants now carry their water in cracked birds eggs, protected in carefully woven baskets that they protect as they roam in a desolate landscape where few from South Africa or the outside of San world ever see.

The world of the San is harsh but their memories are rich in their telling... the lush times, the good times when the grass was green and they were rich living in a richness of life around them, in them, and above them... life was to be protected, this they knew. They saw a bigger story and the few remaining San still do see what only a few see. We. at GreenPolicy360, point to Carl Sagan talking of stars and how to see who we are...

The people south of the Zambezi live in an ECO world... They remember and they tell us in tales what to know of the richness of life that has gone away. Still, we see the richness of life is around us, a Living Earth, that we are within, and stars we are from, and it's all related, San-wise, and is speaking to us.

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Intro: A few thoughts on Ecotourism, in the early days:

Back in the day, when your GreenPolicy360 Siterunner had left NYC publishing for Hollywood producing, one of the films that our company put together was with LaVar Burton. He had just come from the 1977 "Roots" Miniseries, the out-of-Africa story of Kunte Kinte, as played by LaVar.

Later LaVar became involved in a back-to-Africa as he joined up with friends of mine, a recently formed eco-adventuring company that took the name of SOBEK. LaVar tells a great story about almost getting eaten by a croc in Africa, on the Zambezi, as the SOBEK attempted a first-ever river run of the river below Victoria Falls.

LaVar's story is true, I think, though that was many years ago and since then much water has flowed down one of the world's greatest rivers. And then there's the whole eco and tourism thing that has gone from an idea to a generational phenomenon.

Take SOBEK and its OARS. Richard may have 700 stamps in his passport by now...

Richard was a friend from back then, who I helped with the publishing launch of his ecotourism whitewater adventure company. He had invited LaVar along to the first whitewater descent of the Zambezi River, bad, never before oared rapids below the Victoria Falls and, until he almost got eaten, LaVar was along for the ride.

"Until" is the key word. It seems that not far from "putting in" and beginning the adventure with the team of explorers and assistants, who were along for safety, that the kayak of LaVar experienced an encounter. As told, a very large snout with very large teeth, came out of the water suddenly and puts it teeth through a kayak next to LaVar. He rapidly paddled to shore, he proceeded to call in a helicopter from shore, and soon was swept into the sky.

The whitewater team wished his a good-bye, then proceeded to complete their journey down the Zambezi, without losing anyone or having anyone eaten.

Zambia! The Zambesi!! The Hominids & the Stars!!!

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We, humanity, came out of Africa and now we're looking at images of the Rift taken from the International Space Station in a flat, desolate, barren flatlands that's south of the Zambezi.... in the San world of the indigenous people, the aborigine. Some say these people are the oldest old tribe of ancients left in this modern world.

I used to argue with Don Perry about the beginnings, he the scientist talking of prehensile thumbs and our ape family similarities, then switching mid-story to 'feelings' he sometimes suddenly had when swinging up in the treetops, up above in the jungle canopy. Then I'd push and ask again, "when did we come down? and why did we come down from the safety up above?"

Don's theories ranged from mainstream to uniquely Don's (as far as I knew). His hunting by dropping rocks then climbing down for the fruits of successful hunts was one of my favorites.

And so it goes...

Today, we hear about old, old, old Africa and even though the story involves colonial explorers looking for lost tribes (as I read about back in those days of Bangs and his many rivers run throughout the world, and the new ecotourism adventuring we were doing, in different spheres, pushing into new visions of geo-adventures and experiences. With me there was also the rainforest canopy and Don Perry, a National Geo hero, a 'Jacques Cousteau of the Richest Biosphere' on Earth, adventuring into never-before explored upclose 'real jungle'. Don, as a PhD scientist from UCLA, was also inventing a canopy web, engineering it, testing it, then over years and decades introducing it for eco-visioning. Don has brought people from around the world into the tops of the jungle, the rainforest, the living earth.

Every Day Is Earth Day

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