Pistis reclaims the right to be wild - and the responsibility to be livid? (weekending March 7th 2020)

‽istis reclaims the right to be wild - and the responsibility to be livid? (weekending March 7^th 2020)



‽istis, learning perhaps, possibly, maybe nearly too late about:

‽        the quarter of all species perhaps presently at risk of extinction in the coming decades[i]

‽        the very possibly missed future targets of ‘the Paris agreement, the Aichi biodiversity targets and 80% of the UN sustainable development goals (food, water and energy security), because of our poor stewardship of the natural world’[ii]

‽        the maybe surprisingly identified existence of 12,500 species of ant and the flip-it-on-its-head humbling picture of fragile connections leading to the view that ‘we need the invertebrates but they don’t need us’[iii], that without them 'I doubt the human species would last more than a few months' (biologist Edward O.Wilson) 

…but newly determined not just to grieve us on our way[iv], ‽istis hailed the United Nation’s General Assembly resolution 68/205[v] and the proclamation of March 3^rd (the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in 1973) as World Wildlife Day. 

Smiling wryly at a half-remembered UK television sketch[vi], and in solidarity and intricate, complex co-dependence with the herds and shivers and maelstroms and ostentations and fluthers and clowders and pods and charms and sedges and murmurations and basks and schools[vii], ‽istis resolved to think on the potential implications of this: that we ‘share the same roof’; that, ‘after all we are only one link in the chain of life.’[viii]  And ‽istis determined to rage, rage and not just be wild, but to be livid!   

© Pistis  

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[i] https://www.wildlifeday.org/   and https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/directory?direction=desc&sort=extinction_status
 [ii] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/biodiversity-climate-change-mass-extinctions  

[iii] From: New Worlds – The World Mapped Like Never Before Alastair Bonnett (p.102-103) Aurum Press, London 2017

[iv] With eternal thanks to Dylan Thomas: https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night

[v] https://www.wildlifeday.org/sites/default/files/PDF/UNGA_res_68.205_world_wildlife_day.pdf

[vi] http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003085.html (clues here...)

[vii] https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/99-strange-collective-animal-names

[viii] Young voices for WWLife Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGlaNUv668