Susan Harby, Visual Artist

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ENVIRONMENTAL
In the early 1990's, I was thinking about the devastation of the environment. Everywhere I drove, I saw dead animals on the road. Newspaper articles abounded with the tales of the wide scale deaths of people and animals along with the loss of forests and the pollution of water. Why do people who make national and international policies encourage this rampage of destruction? Do they not have grandchildren who need clean water and air? Do they not want their children to see the wonders of the natural world, elephants, whales and all the creatures of the earth?

Why are we so hell-bent on destroying Adam's Garden?

I was visiting Zimbabwe and came upon two articles in the local newspaper about pesticide use. The first article addressed the fact that people were eating the mopani worm. Zimbabwe was emerging from a drought and people were close to starvation. The corn was starting to grow but the super-sized mopani worms were destroying the crops. People let their chickens run in the corn fields to eat some of the worms. The people, themselves, would gather the worms to roast and eat as was their custom to do. The writer was admonishing the people not to eat the worm as it was a sign of their tribal past and, now that they were entering the modern world, they should not eat the unseemly worm, but use pesticides to eradicate them. The article went on to discuss the �safe use� of pesticides. Without editorial comment, the following article on the page informed the reader of the rise in cancer rates in the areas where pesticides were in use. (Later this newspaper was shut down by the government.) When I returned home, I heard that the United States had banned the use of DDT in the U.S. but allowed its continued production and exportation to other nations such as Zimbabwe. Everyday in the states, news is reported regularly of increasing cancer rates. I see people in the stores buying up pesticides and herbicides. Don�t they read the papers or see their friends dying of cancer? What is wrong with us that we can not make moral and ethical decisions for ourselves and others?