Starhawk swoops into town with earth-based messages

[icymist]

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Recently, OnMilwaukee.com spoke to Starhawk about her new book, her Earth-based messages and what it means to be a modern-day witch.

OnMilwaukee.com: What are your main thoughts that you're sharing on this tour?

Starhawk: Our need to connect with the natural world. This theme runs through all of the spiritual and political work I do, as well as my new kids' book. The goddess traditions say the Earth is sacred and alive and a living being, and to be healthy, vibrant people we need a connection with the natural world.

Climate change is not about a gradual warming of the Earth, even though people in Wisconsin might think it is a good thing (laughing). But we live in a culture that's not dealing with climate change. Our culture seems to think the environment is optional; that it's not necessary.

My message is we have not escaped nature, we are still part of it, just as much as our ancestors were. We just have more ways to separate ourselves.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Man will probably be

responsible for his own destruction