Earth Manifesto

The goal of the EARTH MANIFESTO group is to support the Earth on the path of healing. Healing means: stopping the destruction and contamination of the biosphere, eliminating the sources that are in the process of killing all living beings and making all life impossible.
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Humans considered to be a homo sapiens regard themselves as being peaceful, friendly beings. However, by non-human beings they are called: those who torment, torture and bring death. When people see a film about a group of lions hunting an antelope, bringing it down and together with their children, companions and relatives eating it, they often complain: How cruel! The poor little antelope, who immediately appeals to the protective instinct of humans with its cuteness (Konrad Lorenz’ kindchenschema), had to die. However, in case it is a human who shoots a lion, has his head stuffed as a trophy and fixed to the wall of his living room, not much people will dare to say anything. The lion kills in order to survive, the man kills (in this case) because he thinks this to be fun, and to show off in society. Wild animals are hunted all over the world — only a few of them because the people who hold responsibility, or who themselves go on a hunting party, suffer from hunger. Tigers and other f…

The situation of humans is disastrous. There are no noteworthy efforts to mitigate or even stop the various catastrophic developments: The enrichment of the atmosphere with CO₂ and with methane gases, the gases that contribute to global warming, is accelerated. Forests around the equator and in the northern hemisphere are being cut down faster and faster. In the north, bogs are burning and the permafrost is thawing. Those who are responsible for this are not only acting out of greed, but they want to leave “scorched earth”. They boast about their destructive capabilities. Most of these people also are mass murderers, they arrange for indigenous peoples and poor populations to be killed, or are they personally involved in such capital crimes.
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1.The following comments on the EARTH MANIFESTO receive confirmation by many organizations, scientific institutes, projects and NGOs. Almost 8 billion people will live on Earth in 2020. This is an extremely high number when compared to various animal populations. You don't have to be a zoologist, your own observations will perfectly suffice: in the animal world, excess populations as a rule are not viable, they usually will collapse. Since humans undoubtedly are living beings, they will have to account for the fact that they will inadvertently face such a fate.This will not only hold due to shortage of food, which is a problem that is constantly worsening. The massive interference of human civilization in the biosphere leads to destruction of resources essential to humans, animals and plants alike. The mass extinction that people cause through their actions also affects themselves. It compares to the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period about 250 million years ago.Just…

I am the home to billions and billions of creatures. I am the Earth, and all these creatures living in my oceans, on my land surface and in the air belong to me, they are parts of my physical and spiritual body. We are an entity, a complex entity. We live in a peaceful way, we communicate, we develop each other and ourselves. In millions of years we altered, new creatures form out in the life zones of my surface.
One of these species is a creature walking on two legs, has two gifted hands and a gifted brain. Human beings have been part of life, took part in natural communication and live peacefully.Some thousand years ago some groups of humans invented a new lifestyle. They became farmers, they founded towns, they constructed a hierarchic society with priests and kings at the top. They founded armed forces to wage war on their neighbours. They conquered their small world, they founded reichs and empires. These warrior humans started to kill all peaceful humans, only a small amount is l…

The face of the Earth shows in the butterfly, in the caterpillar, in the face of the gray heron and the baboon, the trout and the rattlesnake. But also in the oaks, the rhubarb bushes and the grasses and daisies. It is the volcanic lake in the Eifel, the ridge on the Weser with its rabbits and lynxes, the semi-desert with its cacti.

But the blank faces of those who two legged creatures, chatty and busy, are not associated with the Earth. They delude themselves into thinking they were the owners of the Earth, the owners of billions of chickens, pigs, steel and nuclear power plants, high-rise buildings and halls and lunar landscapes. They have been waging war on each other for 12,000 years: Who will be the winner? (if there should ever be one) Who will be the superstar? My earth day, states the Earth, will be the day when all these slave owners are gone for good.

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