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Planet Citizens

Chief Lyons, Dennis Kucinich, Leonardo DiCaprio

Marching in 2015 for the Common Good

Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich and DiCaprio

2014, Marching in NYC

Bioneers & Planet Citizens Marching for the Common Good

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:People_Climate_March_Sept._21st_Sunday_afternoon_m2.jpg

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg

Chief Oren Lyons, Onondaga, also speaks up to the Associated Press before the 2021 Earth Climate Summit

• https://apnews.com/article/climate-science-technology-environment-europe-98e55f2c64aa6d3dc76a5fc64f8d4ba2

AP / World leaders have been meeting for 29 years to try to curb global warming, and in that time Earth has become a much hotter and deadlier planet.

Trillions of tons of ice have disappeared over that period, the burning of fossil fuels has spewed billions of tons of heat-trapping gases into the air, and hundreds of thousands of people have died from heat and other weather disasters stoked by climate change, statistics show.

When more than 100 world leaders descended on Rio de Janeiro in 1992 for an Earth Summit to discuss global warming and other environmental issues, there was “a huge feeling of well-being, of being able to do something. There was hope really,” said Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, one of the representatives for Native Americans at the summit.

Now, the 91-year-old activist said, that hope has been smothered: “The ice is melting. ... Everything is bad. ... Thirty years of degradation.”

Scientists say this is happening because of heat-trapping gases. Carbon dioxide levels have increased 17% from 353 parts per million in September 1992 to 413 in September 2021, according to NOAA. The agency’s annual greenhouse gas index, which charts six gases and weights them according to how much heat they trap, rose almost 20% since 1992.

From 1993 to 2019, the world put more than 885 billion tons (803 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide in the air from the burning of fossil fuels and making of cement, according to the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who track emissions.

A pessimistic Lyons, the Native American activist, said, “I would say this meeting in Glasgow is the last shot.”

Listen to Chief Lyons @GreenPolicy360

• Seventh Generation / https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation

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SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: "Can we talk?" These words became a mantra of Joan Rivers and she was a challenging force back in the days of 'early TV'. Before the online world came with its social media mega streaming memes, there was Joan! And her signature phrase, "Can we talk?" needs to be remembered and be a meme today and tomorrow, next week, next month, and forever. I think of "Can we talk?" as like moments of discovery, where a challenge leads to new ideas, exploring 'New Worlds' far from accepted 'Old Worlds'.

Teachers in Joan's world, the U.S. between 1950 to 2000, would explain how the "Old World", "discovered" the "New World and tell stories from school books how Christopher Columbus, a Spaniard or Italian with Spanish support, sailed to the West, across an unknown Ocean with three small ships looking for 'spice in the Far East', and gold and treasure of course, and inadvertently 'discovered' the native, indigenous peoples of what became know as 'the Americas'.

"Can we talk?" Time to challenge the old ways of seeing and believing... What was never told to school students in old America but should've been told in great detail was what's known as the Doctrine of Discovery. To be more specific, how the Old World discovered the New World and took control/provenance under a Christian Doctrine of Discovery which legally bequeathed all land discovered by European explorers, mainly Catholics, to the Christian sovereigns, colonialists and set a foundation in place for further expropriating and exploiting the lands of ancient peoples. The value systems of the indigenous peoples were deep value systems distinct from the so-called 'discoverers'. The Catholic Pope who first provided a 'bull' giving 'ownership' of the native people's lands to the discovers should have been spoken of by educators, but wasn't.

We speak of the Doctrine of Discovery here. Take a long look at this link...

THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY -- via the Onondaga Nation

• https://www.onondaganation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DoctrineLRev.pdf

"The Doctrine of Christian Discovery: Its fundamental importance in U.S. Indian Law and the need for its repudiation and removal"

By Joseph Heath, Esq.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doctrine_of_Christian_Discovery_-_by_Joseph_Heath%2C_Esq.pdf

File:Doctrine of Christian Discovery - by Joseph Heath, Esq.pdf

Here is the story of the legal underpinnings of colonial law globally, how the Church (Catholic Church) and nations of Europe combined to claim the 'discovered' lands of the world for their own. The story is one that broke with the value of what we now call today, "ecology", where the land and the wildlife, the connection of the land to the people of the land is intrinsically bound together and the people act to protect, preserve, and honor the multi-generational inheritance of their place within a larger ecosystem of life.

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Consider our friend, Chief Lyons from the Onondaga nation and his/our message that is at the core of our green work, looking to protect and preserve life on earth, to expand rights and quality of life, to educate about working and acting for today's environmental protection and for the 'seventh generation'.

Seventh Generation

Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of ancient wisdom:

"We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come...."

"What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?"

GreenPolicy Siterunner: Chief Lyons is one of our favorite Bioneers who has joined with us -- and helped to open our eyes and hearts for many years

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Today's Challenge

Generational Thinking, Sustainable Living

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Seventh_Generation_Sustainability

"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time." -- Terry Tempest Williams

Seven generation sustainability is an ecological concept that urges the current generation of humans to live sustainably and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future. It originated with the Iroquois - Great Law of the Iroquois - which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead (about 140 years into the future) and decide whether the decisions they make today would benefit their children seven generations into the future.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Seventh_Generation_Sustainability

"In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation... even if it requires having skin as thick as the bark of a pine." This is an often repeated saying, and most who use it claim that it comes from “The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law.”

In fact, the original language is as follows: In all of your deliberations in the Confederate Council, in your efforts at law making, in all your official acts, self-interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not over your shoulder behind you the warnings of the nephews and nieces should they chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground – the unborn of the future Nation.

• http://blog.nativepartnership.org/sustainability/

Chief Oren Lyons

"We are Part of the Earth" (Video)

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"Honor the Earth"

Indigenous Vision for a Sustainable Earth

• https://www.honorearth.net/

Winona LaDuke

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Sustainability

Sustainable Thinking, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Living,

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Vision, Future Focus

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development

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Chief Lyons and the Bioneers

As a Bioneer, a Planet Citizen - http://www.bioneers.org/staff/chief-oren-lyons/

Bioneers

Indigeneity is a Native-led program within the Bioneers that shares Indigenous solutions to our most pressing social and environmental issues. We welcome all people to re-indigenize by learning from Indigenous teachings and the experiences of your ancestors.

• https://bioneers.org/why-we-need-healing-and-reconciliation

Terri Hansen: “The Native American model of governance that is fair and will always meet the needs of the seventh generation to come is taken from the Iroquois Confederacy. The seventh generation principle dictates that decisions that are made today should lead to sustainability for seven generations into the future. And Indigenous nations in North America were and are for the most part organized by democratic principles that focus on the creation of strong kinship bonds that promote leadership in which honor is not earned by material gain but by service to others. In the plains, there was great honor in giving your horses to the poorest members of the tribe. The potlatch still practiced in the Pacific Northwest is another example of voluntarily redistributing wealth to those who have the least.”

"The Roots of American Democracy" (with Video)

• https://bioneers.org/chief-oren-lyons-the-roots-of-american-democracy-bioneers/

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Strategies of Resilience & Survival