High Noon for the Eco-System (Earth Needs More Than a Day) | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

April 20, 2014

"The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses."

- Utah Phillips

We need a loud global alarm clock and we need it now. In fact, we could use a bunch of 'em -- tick-tick-ticking in every city and town on the planet to remind us humans that time is of the essence.

Our eco-system is finite and there is a point of no return. With this in mind, we could all kick things up a notch or three in terms of urgency, solidarity, and methods. Maybe such an escalation could begin with a showing of High Noon?

I watched this classic 1952 film for the thousandth time recently and found myself focused on the moment when Amy (Grace Kelly), the pacifist wife of Marshal Kane (Gary Cooper), shoots and kills a man to save her husband's life. Earlier in the film, Amy had declared:

"My father and my brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side but that didn't help them any when the shooting started. My brother was 19. I watched him die. That's when I became a Quaker. I don't care who's right or who's wrong. There's got to be some better way for people to live."

However, she not only ends up shooting a man, she also fights off the main villain, which allows Marshal Kane to finish him.

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