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'Oil represents the sprits of a long dead world, that we use to satisfy our greed for power and sacrifice and our children in return.'

A Shwar elder (CESR, Quito)


The Shwar are an old people,
They have lived in the Foothills of the mighty Andes,
In the green vibrant world of life the Amazon,
Beneath them lie the remains of a world of life
That existed before the mighty mountains.
Life that swam the seas and clothed the land and in their time died to be buried , as the dead are
Far below the surface that supports the living.
Now over the mountains come the shiny machines,
Sound and color, power and money.
To drill deep holes in the green Amazon to reach below
And suck the essence of those that had died
So long ago.

Men who live by asking power from the spirits of the dead
are known to the Shwar.
As they are known in every tribe or civilization of humankind.
They represent the age old battle,
that divides men .
Those who choose the power of light and those who choose the power of dark.

The consequences are also known,
from light life,
from darkness death

This is an axiom of the biosphere

But both give power,
Both extend promises
Both require sacrifice

The sacrifice of light is the containment of greed
such that power is shared and future children are sustainable

The sacrifice of dark, is the lives of the future to be given in exchange,
so that personal power and wealth is gained

Men who live by asking power from the spirits of the dead
are known to the Shwar as they to every tradition,
They are the authors of bloody and mangled victims, of dark deeds and cruel hearts, who give up even their children for the power granted, though their sacrifice.


Machines that live by gaining power from the dead crawl around the planet of life.
Like zombie slaves
Cutting, digging and running at the whim of the purveyors of the energy of the spirits of the dead. With every motion poisoning the air of the world of the living.
Lights that blaze bright,
Enticing men as moths,
To bask unthinking of
The consequence poisoned air .

And now the final push.
Towards the endless end.
Lives short in days and long in suffering.
Must all humanity must join,
In full heart.
To accept increasing the use of power
from the world of the dead
to each and individual life as a hallowed goalŠ..
mindless 'Development'
created by the greedy,
the heartless,
To become, the killers of
our children. As sacrifice
for the power that propels us to
develop and progress.