OUR BURNING PLANET - GLOBAL STRIKE COUNTDOWN: Living in the End Times: Four days for the Earth

Many years ago, I remember being disturbed by an article about how there won’t be enough jobs in the future for everyone. Having experienced my own struggle to find work, I remembered clearly the dark depression that hovered as I waited to hear back about my applications. As terrifying as the weight of such uncertainty on my shoulders was, it bothered me more that, because I wanted a job, someone else might go without.

With this in mind, I want to make the case for giving four days to the Earth – and by Earth, I also mean community. Over the past few months, I have been working for a non-profit that believes in advancing the rights of indigenous people and local communities, peoples who hold the key to protecting our biodiversity. Traditional knowledge and community practices have helped them to live in harmony with nature for centuries. There were fundamental principles that communities lived by, and a deep connection to the Earth that continues to be inexplicable and sacred.

While I’m sure it is not necessarily original, I first thought of the phrase, “four days for the Earth” when I read anin which he quotes a San healer as saying, “Four days a week must be ecosystem work…” Of course, it’s not clear what that means, but my interpretation was: more of our week should be devoted to something outside of labouring for the capitalist system — anything from cultivating a garden, to spending more time with family.

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