{"id":1679,"date":"2020-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/campaign-updates\/1679\/leni-zumas-on-our-climate-in-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T19:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:01:43","slug":"leni-zumas-on-our-climate-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/leni-zumas-on-our-climate-in-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Leni Zumas on our Climate in Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class='p4subtitle'>An Essay for the #ClimateVisionaries Artists&#8217; Project for Greenpeace<\/span><br \/><span class='p4descriptive_paragraph'>Over the last 120 years, this government of the people, by the people, for the people has become a foot soldier of capitalism; and capitalism really fucking hates being regulated.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class='wp-block-image size-large p4featured_image'><img src='https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/planet4-usa-stateless\/2024\/11\/25520057-leni-zumas_photo-by-nashco.jpg' alt='Leni Zumas, Author and contributor to our #ClimateVisionaries Artists' Project' \/><figcaption class='wp-element-caption'><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigable Waters<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I dream of scale: massive. Of laws: draconian. Of enforced regulations that alter human behaviors so radically the sea changes, and the sky, and the Earth. My dream is shared by millions, owned by none. But the putrid dome we live under\u2014modern consumer capitalism\u2014hates sharing and loves owning and has convinced a lot of humans that greed is as natural to humans as breath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The oldest environmental legislation in the U.S. is the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899, which bans unlicensed dam-building and forbids the dumping of non-liquid refuse<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into navigable waters. The Act marks the beginning of American lawmakers\u2019 efforts, at the federal level, to protect the natural world. It also underscores how wretchedly they have failed. Over the last 120 years, this government of the people, by the people, for the people has become a foot soldier of capitalism; and capitalism <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">really<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fucking hates being regulated.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve rewritten two sections of the Rivers and Harbors Act, replacing parts of the text with the names of mammals and birds rendered extinct since the law\u2019s 1899 passage. My source for extinction dates is Wikipedia, where the most hideous, heart-gouging facts are formatted no differently than actors\u2019 birthdays.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello, creatures:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pig-footed bandicoot<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not affirmatively authorized by a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slender-billed grackle <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the navigable capacity of pagan reed warblers or of Tasman starlings is prohibited; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it shall not be lawful<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to extinguish or commence the extinguishing of any Caribbean monk seal, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puerto Rican barn owl, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">long-tailed hopping mouse<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">toolache wallaby<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alagoas foliage-gleaner<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Island piopio<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lesser bilby<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">greater \u2018amakihi <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in any port, roadstead, haven,\u00a0harbor,\u00a0canal, navigable river, or other water of the\u00a0United States, outside established Caspian tigers, or where no blue-gray mice have been established, except on plans recommended by the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">western black rhinoceros <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and authorized by the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">red-moustached fruit dove<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it shall not be lawful<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thick-billed ground dove<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antillean giant rice rat, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">purple-winged ground dove<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yemen gazelle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K\u0101ma\u2018o thrush<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bush wren<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bulldog rat or lesser stick-nest rat<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the\u00a0United States,\u00a0unless the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pink-headed duck <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been recommended by the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">desert rat-kangaroo <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and authorized by the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">indefatigable Galapagos mouse <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prior to beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It shall not be lawful<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to throw, discharge, or deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure to be thrown, discharged, or deposited either from or out of any\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ship<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, barge, or other floating craft of any kind, or from the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shore<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, wharf, manufacturing establishment, or mill of any kind, any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">state<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, into any navigable water of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United States<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or into any tributary of any navigable water <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from which <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">passenger pigeons <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shall float or be washed into such navigable water; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it shall not be lawful<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure to be deposited material of any kind in any place on the bank of any navigable water, or on the bank of any tributary of any navigable water, where the Marquesa swamphen shall be liable to be washed into such navigable water, either by ordinary or high tides, or by white-chested white-eyes or <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cryptic tree hunters<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or otherwise, whereby heath hens shall or may be impeded or obstructed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall extend to, apply to, or prohibit the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laysan honeycreeper<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in connection with the improvement of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">po<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o-uli<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Island snipe<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, considered necessary and proper by the\u00a0Guam flying foxes supervising the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> West Coast spotted kiwi<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: And provided further, That the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christmas Island pipistrelle, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whenever (in the judgment of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pyrenean ibex) Japanese sea lions <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nuku Hiva monarch<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s will not be injured thereby, may permit the deposit of any laughing owls in navigable waters, within limits to be defined and under conditions to be prescribed by the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canary Island oystercatcher<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, provided application is made to the Tasmanian tiger prior to depositing such owls; and whenever any permit is so granted <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the conditions thereof shall be strictly complied with, and any violation thereof shall be unlawful<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emphasis mine. Grief and guilt and furious hope\u2014everyone\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As we begin this critical new year in the fight against climate change, Greenpeace is giving over space on our channels to authors and artists working within the climate crisis. Acclaimed author\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/stories\/lauren-groff\/\">Lauren Groff<\/a>\u00a0prompted artists and thinkers to write essays and art about climate change for us, and so every day this month we\u2019ll have a new piece from that project that addresses, in some form, what it means to create in the midst of this crisis. The forces fueling climate change have the most powerful networks in history pumping out their devastating propaganda at unimaginable scale. It\u2019s going to take everything we have from all of us \u2013 imagination equal to the task \u2013 to create the climate we\u2019ll need to stop the crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We need these voices and these visions, but they won\u2019t be enough. We need you, too. We encourage you to check back on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/issues\/climate-visionaries-artists-project\/\">Climate Visionaries Artists\u2019 Project<\/a>\u00a0every day to see what\u2019s new, and to join the conversation by sharing your work on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and tagging it #ClimateVisionaries.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigable Waters I dream of scale: massive. Of laws: draconian. Of enforced regulations that alter human behaviors so radically the sea changes, and the sky, and the Earth. 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