World Water and Earth Day 2020, Alchemy's Speech, Imagine4

“Ten years ago,” Alchemy began, “on March 24^th, 2010, New Moore Island sank beneath the rising waters of the Bay of Bengal.

[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/24/world/main6329339.shtml]

“The UN dedicated World Water Day 2010 to the theme of water quality, highlighting the plight of more than one billion people world wide who lacked access to clean, safe drinking water.

“The World Wildlife Fund held the fourth annual Earth Hour, hoping for a global agreement to encourage all countries to lower emissions, and to stop global warming.

[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36064095/ns/world_news-world_environment/]

“Water levels across the world were rising, and issues of water security were getting more and more critical. On March 27^th, 2010, at 8:30 pm, starting in the Chatham Islands off New Zealand, and crossing the globe through the time zones, four thousand cities, in over 120 countries, turned off their lights, to reduce energy consumption, to call with one voice for an end to greenhouse gas emissions, and end to global warming--,”

Alchemy looked around at the faces barely visible in the darkened room, and was also heard and seen, through the ultra-band feeds, by more EVOKE Agents, all across the world.

“Ten years ago, EVOKE Agents began their large-scale, little-publicized campaigns to increase security and sustainability world-wide. Energy, Environment, Food, Water—all aspects of life were threatened by poor education, by habits of obsolescence and depletion, by interdependence upon a flawed approach.

"We learned, communities learned, nations learned—concerns could not remain unaddressed; insecurities and in-sustainability could not remain un-redressed.

“Tonight, March 27^th, 2020, we celebrate new levels of global security, new levels of global sustainability. We celebrate an Earth newly recharged, an Earth on its way to being restored.

“We celebrate our humanity, individually and interdependently.

“And, in a new kind of gesture, acknowledging how far we have come to improve our threatened existence, and recognizing how fully we must all embrace the responsibility of continuing to live sustainably, we will have a new kind of World Water Day, a new kind of Earth Hour. We will celebrate our new sustainability with a World Water and Earth Day.

“Millions of people world-wide used to turn lights off in a unified gesture to highlight environmental concerns.

“Tonight, millions of people world-wide can turn on their non-emitting renewable-source lights, in a unified pact to never again allow the darkness of unsustainable consumption, of unsustainable environmental practices, of untenable humanitarian crises to cover our Earth, and extinguish the lights of hope.

“Tonight, millions of people world-wide can celebrate a new World Water and Earth Day together. And what will they see?

“New Zealand’s Chatham Islands will be rimmed with solar torches. In the mountains of Tibet and Nepal, renewable-energy spot lights will illume the renewed snow-packs blanketing the mountainsides. Laser shows will show the re-growth of the glaciers; across the great lands of Russia and the fertile lands of Europe, travel ports and sky-scrapers, village gates and household doors will shine to highlight our shared efforts to renew the Earth.

“The great deserts will be lighted, especially in the new plant/re-vapor terra fields. The self-sustaining green zones will direct their solar-powered lights onto the vapor screens, and join the celebration of green renewal, of water security.

“The tall towers of the world, the cathedrals, mosques, temples, the travel-ways and bridges, the castles, universities and great halls will shine with lights festooning their heliostats and solar/wind power drums.

“The great rivers and waterfalls will be lined with solar and hydro-voltaic lights, and, in the great river deltas, in Guadalquivir, in the Bay of Bengal, in the Gulf of Mexico, solar lights will shine upon the sparkling waters, the flights of the pink flamingoes, the white storks, the grey cranes.

“In the oceans, some of our more aquatically-minded Agents will swim in the sea-fisheries, triggering the bioluminescence of the thousands of comb-jellies and glow-fish, the phospho-processing algae and seaweeds that keep our oceans clean.

“And in the skies, powered with the solar-magnetic dynamos, flights and satellites, and our near-space craft will run their board lights, to shine as brightly as the newly-visible stars in our now clean atmosphere.

“And if, somewhere on the Earth, rains fall upon the celebrations, the rains will be clear, clean, and plentiful—and the rebalance of the Earth and her waters will be all the more evident.

“We still have much to do. We still have much to learn. But, together, whether publicly or in secret, whether brightly lighted or quietly glowing, tonight we can all enjoy a fuller sense of security, of purpose. Our EVOKATION has been heard, and you have risen to the call. Our waters, our resources, our planet are more secure; our lives on this Earth are more sustainable.

“Tomorrow, we begin anew the work to sustain the vital resources, and the vitality of all life upon our planet. But tonight, in celebration of the first annual World Water and Earth Day, let our renewable-energy lights shine forth, in solidarity and in celebration, banning the darkness of depletion and diminishment.

“Tonight, united through our common interest, strengthened by our shared abilities, the lights of our renewable power plants will illuminate the verdant lands, the clear waters and the clear skies of our renewed, sustainable waters, our renewed, sustainable Earth.

“Thank you, Agents of EVOKE.”

And on the sea-shores of the Chatham Islands, the first of the solar torches flickered to life.