With the poor people of the earth
I want to share my fate
The brook of the mountains
Gives me more pleasure than the sea

-the last verse of the song, “Guantanamera,” by Jose Marti

Riding in a taxi yesterday early in the morning of the last day of the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, my driver told me, as we passed the big stadium in Cochabamba where the concluding event was being held later that afternoon, that the stadium held 30,000 people. If he was right, then there were 30,000 people celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Mother Earth Day, in Cochabamba yesterday.

I’d be surprised if there was a bigger Earth Day event anywhere in the world. And it sure would be a nice surprise to find out that this likely reality was reported in the mainstream news sources of the USA. After all, just like the 117 nations at Copenhagen that supported 350 parts per million as the objective that the world needs to get to as far as carbon in the atmosphere, those 30,000 people, and the many like them around the world, just don