ON ECOLOGY
"Only he who creates is living.
We are dead when we do not create.
To be creative means to be free and to realize yourself in harmony with nature.
To be happy, man does not need to be rich on the outside.
To be happy, man needs an inside wealth of the soul.
To be happy, man needs no external mechanic energy but a sincere creative energy deep inside.
There is a bad joke (that says) when GOD created the earth he saw that nature was not perfect so he invented the gardener.
But, in fact what gardeners do is to upset the laws of nature.
A bible word has turned out to be wrong and deadly harmful. It is when GOD said to men, more or less like this: Go and multiply and develop and exploit and make the earth subservient.
Man today is the most dangerous pest that ever devastated this earth. Man has become a vermin alienated from the environment of nature.
We live in paradise, but we destroy it.
Everything is here to be happy on earth.
We have snow, and every day a new morning.
We have trees and rain, hope and tears.
We have humus and oxygen, animals and all the colours.
distant lands and bicycles,
we have sun and shadow, we are rich.
There is no energy crisis.
There is only an insane waste of energy.
Does nature know such a thing as an energy crisis?
Do the birds, the trees, the animals have an energy crisis?
Only man imagines he has an energy crisis, because he has gone mad perfect ecology must be to put man back into his environmental barriers so that the earth can regenerate.
The insane and unjustified consumption of energy should correspond to the equal amount of responsible intelligence.
But this is not so.
Man remained a stupid animal that all of a sudden has crazy amount of energy, of poison and deadly weapons at his disposal. And he wastes this all blindly destroying his environment and killing his own brothers.
And greedily this man, this stupid animal is asking for more energy, more poison and more deadly weapons, men, especially the so-called experts have lost control over the levers of energy. They do not know anymore what they do.
The consumer society does not bring us the salvation.
We produce without sense.
We consume like mad.
We waste blindly.
Man degrades himself to a manipulated consumer’s item.
This is the worst form of slavery man has experienced in his existence.
He who advocates nuclear energy is either excessively short-sighted, misinformed or consciously criminal.
The more time is passing the more we recognize the extent of the dangers of blind technology we have set into our world.
It would be irresponsible to ignore the fact that technician, scientists and experts are leading us onto a vast world of problems which they themselves cannot understand and cannot manage anymore. We run return become dependent upon deadly perilous things which are beyond our comprehension.
Our technological achievement must match our creative responsibility, we are far behind, unfortunately.
For instance, you are not allowed to have a machine gun and kill randomly everybody we dislike or see in the streets. If we get a car we must have a driving license to use the car, because the car is dangerous in the hands of somebody who cannot drive. But how does it come that everybody can use detergents and chemical soaps and kill without even knowing that we are killing by using chemical detergents.
The criminal advertising tells us how to get clean with the help of soaps and detergents but this is a lie.
The cleaner our shirts the cleaner our house the dirtier gets our environment, not only dirty but dead.
And this someone who uses poison to kill is all of us you and you and me, when we use detergents to wash when we use poison in agriculture and gardens, when we use poison and create poison when we drive cars, when we use poison to produce the objects we live with, when we use poison in our everyday life.
In our television, in our radio, in our newspapers, in our street-posters this poison of all sorts is advertised and promoted freely instead of being forbidden in order to protect us.
The state authorities should protect nature and ourselves from poisonous substances, but no state authority forbids advertising, the selling, buying, and the use of poison which is much more harmful than any narcotics.
Workers continue to produce this poison in always bigger quantities because otherwise trade unions say they would become jobless.
This short-sighted thinking leads us to a labyrinth where there is no way out.
In spite of our wisdom and intellect we got entangled in a big mess – we got blind. We do not see anymore the relationship between criminal causes and disastrous negative effects.
Without beauty and creation in harmony with nature nothing works and all goes wrong.
Everybody of us has the duty like in times of war to stand on his post and to watch and observe and act and fight wherever he is for beauty with human creativity in harmony with creativity of nature.
These are not just beautiful words, this is our survival. Is no excuse like – I am too poor – I am too powerless, I am too insignificant and so on.
It is our duty to create paradise and to let paradise happen wherever we are.
It is madness when we work in ugly factories to get enough money to sustain a small nice home somewhere else.
Wherever we are wherever we work or live must be a kingdom of responsible creativity and beauty in harmony with nature.
We cannot live nicely in one place and by doing so destroy the neighbours place or another place.
For instance using objects which have been produced by factories which kill forests somewhere else with acid rain.
Our computers must be fed with all ecological datas all environmental long terms information we have now already at our disposal, when we want a computer to answer us about rentability and feasability in all domains of human activity.
In that sense we can very well calculate with highly sophisticated computers what is cheap or expensive, rentable or not, harmful or beneficial in its overall long-term nationwide and worldwide interconnections.
It is crime not to give the computers all ecological and environmental datas to count with.
To take in account all ecological and environmental information must be a precondition for all calculations.
What benefit we have for instance when we can produce and buy one item cheap in money but in doing so we must cope with dead forests, polluted rivers, poisonous air to breath, devastated landscapes, houses in which we loose our humanity, genetic transmutations in plants, animals and ourselves, disappearance of species and so on and so on.
This terrifying bill is presented to us a little bit later just because we wanted something quickly and cheaply and easily.
And because of this little difference of time and space between the origin of the ecological crime and the visible and tangible disastrous effects, it is very easy for the irresponsible planners to deny all responsibility.
And anybody tells us that by using the straight line, by using the ruler and the t-square we kill and destroy our creativity, and without this creativity we cannot live.
We must again live as if in times of war.
Man has to be careful.
Man must think independently, must plan economically.
We must avoid mindless waste.
Man must see to it that the natural cycle continues to function.
Happiness does not depend on materialistic wealth.
Happiness does not depend on production.
A tree is cut down in five minutes,
but it takes fifty years to grow the tree.
That is approximately the relation
between technocratic destruction and ecological rebuilding.
The technocratic chaos is a cancer which can only be cured by creative ecological means.
This is a long way but the only possible way out.
In order to master ecologically our mismanaged situation, we need creative thinking combined with knowledge of the laws of nature.
By no means do we need the spirit of industrial progress.
The so-called progress has turned out to be a step towards self-destruction.
We can only survive if we step back.
Only we who acts in harmony with plants and trees, who acts in accordance with the laws of nature and the cosmic cycle cannot go wrong.
All human laws have turned out to be a constant failure. For instance, it is inadmissible that industries try to oppose natural purification plants which function naturally with the help of vegetation because then they could not sell their highly technical and complex and ugly and expensive purification plants.
But a natural purification plant is beautiful like a paradise garden and costs almost nothing.
This is just one example of how ecology must be handled with creative spirit in accordance with the laws of nature.
We must make a peace treaty with nature.
We must restore to nature territories which we have occupied illegally and destroyed illegally.
But to make a peace treaty with nature we must have a free and valid partner to talk to and this can only be a free tree, a free vegetation and not a slave tree.
Only spontaneous vegetation is a qualified partner of man to establish a peace treaty with and not sick monoculture slave trees planted by men.
The peace treaty with nature must include the following points:
Speech on Ecology on the occasion of handing over of the poster “Save the Rain” to Norges Naturvernforbund during the press conference in Oslo, October 17, 1983