Planet earth and the life thereon is crying out for transformation. The cry is subtle, even silent, but very real. If one listens in the silence, reflectively, the message is clear. Many of us know it. Our error has been the belief that we're alone in our concerns. We certainly are isolated from one another. We are a majority unaware and anattached.
Popular culture does not seriously acknowledge the truth of the situation and challenges we find around us. Culture has a vested, disfunctional, passion to deny anything so profound. And so, we are told that life has never been better; endless material prosperity is our destiny. We're all rich and getting richer. There are problems to be sure, but they're only around the margins. Tinker with them; they're solved!
It is now, as always, in the words of Dickens, the best of times, and the worst of times. There is a profound departure from other times this time, however. Human technology and "progress" of the past two centuries coupled with institutional action and attitude have made it possible, even inevitable, that the resources and enviromental stability or our mother earth could, by human actions, very shortly be flushed into oblivion, along with the security of life as we know it.
At the same time, we live in social conditions of great flexibility, and can, if we choose, alter the course of our collective natural and social experience.
My name is Dave Rowland. Along with Matthew Airmet, I'm the Co-Chariman ot the Green Party of Utah (GPU). I'm probably no one you've heard of. I do, however, possess ideas and plenty of passion. My guts and my heart are on this page. I mean what I am saying!
I'm 50 years old; have been for half that time happily married to the same spouse; have fathered and helped raise four fine children, and am now joyously acquainted with an intelligent, loving, lively, world class three year old grand-daughter.
Since 1996, I've been affiliated with the GPU. Although not legally recognized by the State of Utah at the time, the GPU succeeded in placing the national Green Party candidate, legendary consumer activist Ralph Nader, on the ballot. Nader placed fourth at the polls in Utah and the nation that year, behind Republican, Democrat, and Reform party candidates, but far ahead of more financially flush "third party" candidates such as those from the Libertarian and Natural Law Parties.
The Green Party is international in scope, having originated in Germany in the 1970's.
