Humanitarian Disaster in the Sahara

Algeria has stranded 13,000 migrants in the Sahara forcing them to walk across it in response to EU directive to North Africa to lessen migration across the Mediterranean. These migrants come from regions torn by war, violence, poverty and climate change. In searching for solutions this is definitely not a solution, nor it is anything but a human rights violation. These migrants are sent out without water or food and many do not make it.

The podcast here Migrants Abandoned In Searing Sahara explains this crisis and sheds light on the reasons behind it. Much thanks to Arianne Kirtley, founder and director of Amman Imman/Water Is Life for bringing this to my attention. This is not being covered in the media as it should be.

We are seeing such inhumane treatment on a scale across our globe that must lead us to questioning why in this age of progress can we not provide the basest yet most important needs to humans. Why it is that cruelty and apathy are always seen as the way to handle a crisis. Those refusing these migrants and others around the world legitimately seeking asylum are not part of the solution, but the problem.They leave them victim to starvation, dehydration, slave traders and those seeking to radicalize them.

Please listen to the podcast and share it with as many as you can. We cannot sit in silence as our fellow human beings rightfully in need seeking safety are left to die in the scorching sands of the Sahara.

Update:



Africa may have witnessed its all-time hottest temperature Thursday: 124 degrees in Algeria

Now imagine having to walk across the Sahara with no water or food. Still have not seen anything about this in MSM.

Water Is Life.

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We Are The Cure

I hit a milestone this week as it has been a year since my surgery for stage four ovarian cancer. One year that has been filled with healing, hardship and trying to adapt to a life that has been filled as well with reflection and also sadness. I have had this blog for over a decade and have brought forth a myriad of issues and information that spans the globe. So much time spent sending out an SOS about the crisis of humanity centering on water, our source of life.

As we look out into the world today we see more pollution, more corporatization, more war and a climate crisis now truly illustrating that consequences not considered can reap a deadly future. News of corals in the Great Barrier reef dying, to continued pollution of our oceans from spills, plastic, fracking, overfishing and extreme warming (and Arctic Amplification) souping up storms, the most devastating Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria, which also laid bare not just the effects of extreme climate, but the persistent political corruption, racism and economic bias that exists at the highest levels of government.

The juxtaposition of these tragedies to my time of healing has in all honesty left me sad and angry. All those days of pain, discomfort, fear and also hope pushed me to defeating the cancer (hopefully for good) because I knew life was precious and worth living. To me, it is the same regarding water. We know that clean water leads to health, prosperity and a balance with the Earth that works in tandem with our bodies and souls to bring peace.

Yet, we still infect the oceans with plastic, toxins, nuclear waste, agricultural toxins in amounts becoming more unsustainable for marinelife and ourselves. We continue infecting the air with greenhouse gases we know have now catapulted humanity into unprecedented territory. We know what we need to do to heal our affliction, yet we continue poisoning the Earth and wasting and destroying its resources.

Any cancer patient who knows what they need to do to fight the disease does it even though it requires a sacrifice. I wish that mentality could be applied to the other crises we face as humans. The moral of the story...when you see a challenge before you, to not do all in your power to do the right thing to fix it, to heal it, is endemically immoral.

My cancer was not something I caused, at least not directly. However, the damage we are doing to water resources and the Earth in general is being done directly. We would never turn our backs on someone we love who is suffering from cancer or any other disease. Therefore, for the world we love, the water essential to our lives and those for whom there is no one to speak for them we can do no less. We must do no less.
Peace and health to you all.

Water Is Life.

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The Future Is Now the Present

Climate Bellwether? With Cape Town Almost Out of Water, "Day Zero" Looms

Is this a foretaste of the future in the present? Don't say we weren't warned. Water is the one thing taken most for granted and the one thing we can't live without. We will see this scenario playing out in other places globally and we are not prepared on a global scale to face it.

I have been on hiatus the last year due to my Stage IV cancer. My journey is not over although my last CT scan showed no sign of disease after six cycles of chemotherapy and major surgery last summer. I still have scans,tests and appointnents more than likely for the rest of my life with the fear of recurrence. However, I remain positive. The road has been long and a test of my inner strength. It has also reinforced just how precious life is and how truly blessed we are to be alive. Water is essential to that life which is why I have always tried to advocate as best I can for preservation, conservation and water justice.

As we look on the state of our world today we see the force of anthropogenic climate change being exerted on resources to a breaking point. War, displacement, pollution and a general lack of concern by governments for preserving this life resource as well must bring us to speaking out for our Earth and those unable to speak.

I as an American can say I am proud of those marching and speaking out against intolerance and injustice. Especially in the wake of our government being infiltrated by intolerant xenophobes in league with the very interests intent on destroying our oceans and water sources for profit. Social injustice is an injustice to all and to our climate, water, land and the web of life.

What is now happening in Cape Town is not a warning of the future, it is the reality of our present. Like the cancer that wracked my body, a cancer is taking hold of our Earth in large part due to the cancer of the soul. Healing that cancer of the soul is imperative in healing the cancer of our planet.

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