Guy Spiro: Angaangaq, I usually like to start by asking people to tell their stories, how they came to be who they are, but I'm moved to start at a different place with you. I've been saying for quite some time that the world is alive. Gaia is a being and that she'd be capable of healing herself of the damage done by the industrial revolution in an afternoon, and not spill a teacup, and if enough of us will love her, she will.
Angaangaq: It's interesting that you ask that question. Years ago, Al Gore was making the movie called An Inconvenient Truth, and the Eskimo elders were disagreeing on whether to support the film. I was so excited that Al Gore was doing this film and that this request came forward that I ran home and said, "You're going to be famous, you just need to support this film." He asked me, who is Al Gore? And I said, you know, he was the Vice President. He said, who is he? I went through the explanations several times and one of the elders said, "You know son, fame will not stop the melting of the big ice." I was so stunned.
I said, "You're going to be famous," and he said, "You know, son, if the people in the world could put their minds together, we could not stop the melting of the ice. It's too late."
I was stunned and at the same time, my own ego wanting to be famous in supporting that film, trying to convince them, I forgot myself completely, insisting that they support it. And they, just very lovingly, said, "Son, none of us can stop the melting of the big ice. It's too late." So they did not support the film or put their names to it.
I find it interesting that you say that now, but the only thing you and I can do is to change. So that's our work, to melt the ice of the heart of man. My mom says that only by melting the ice in the heart of man will man have a chance to change and begin using his knowledge wisely. Much later I realized man has vast knowledge, but we need to change and use it wisely. We have not yet done so. Mother Earth has always changed. The old ones told us over and over, she's always changing. It's you and I who don't change.
GS: Clearly, we should not have polluted like we have, clearly, that's bad. But they say that the ice caps are melting on Mars and I don't think our pollution could be causing that.
