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    Arktel, the Planet Only Children Could Save
    Arktel, the Planet Only Children Could Save
    Arktel, the Planet Only Children Could Save
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    Arktel, the Planet Only Children Could Save

    By Menkit Prince

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    Elelle and Rotaahr looked out the window of their father’s flying saucer. Below was Tarjez, the most beautiful planet in their galaxy. But the forces of evil had been busily destroying the majesty of this planet, leaving only one small child alive to watch the bitter end. Devastated, the children begged their father to rescue Janos – but it was too late. Tarjez exploded leaving them no choice but to flee for their lives. Would Ellelle and Rotaahr learn how to protect their home planet, Arktel, from the same evil forces threatening to destroy them? Or was it too late?

    Ellelle and Rotaahr were determined to do all they could to save their world so they met with other school friends to brainstorm what their world’s problems were and asked their parents to help solve them in addition to doing much research. The momentum gathered as the children began to implement changes in their homes. They went out into the community and gave presentations showing the adults what they had done and imploring them for help. Then something amazing happened – because they were using less resources and living more simply, more attuned to nature, they became happier, more radiant, and were a living example for all to see.

    The movement to save their world grew to other schools and other countries until a political shift occurred and the children were finally given a voice for their future.

    Captain Paul Watson wrote ‘Can children save the world? The answer to that is that our only hope for the survival of all that is beautiful and alive is that they must. When I read a children’s book, I look for one virtue more than any other and if I find it then I see a book that has value. That virtue is empowerment. With Arktel, The Planet That Only Children Could Save, I see a tale that educates, inspires and empowers.’

    A surprise ending and an important message to all the children of Planet Earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMenkit Prince
    Release dateOct 2, 2016
    ISBN9781370632794
    Arktel, the Planet Only Children Could Save
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    Menkit Prince

    Menkit Prince is an author of several children’s books and also books pioneering the art of combining essential oils with food.Born in Australia in 1951, she has been involved in aromatherapy since 1993 teaching classes on essential oil application for improved physical and emotional well being.She is also an avid environmentalist trying to make the world a better place with books, blogs, recipe books and local activism, especially for native Australian animals and the environment.Her research into alternative healing methods convinced her that diet is the most important factor in creating vibrant health. After graduating from the East West Foundation in Sydney in 1981, she taught macrobiotic cooking, shiatsu, Japanese Okido Yoga and Oriental Medicine. Over the next 10 years, she founded and directed several healing centers in Australia and New Mexico.After years of experimentation, she embraces a vegan diet specifically a raw food diet. Menkit Prince is the first author to combine top-grade essential oils with a plant-based diet to raise the frequency of food and dramatically improve the flavour, making it more attractive for people to adopt a vegan diet. See her books at http://www.essentialoilcookbook.com http://www.chloeandjoey.com http://www.arktel.coom http://www.aromaticallyraw.com

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      Arktel, the Planet Only Children Could Save - Menkit Prince

      Dedicated to Chloe Jordan, Adi Mandel, Kitalia-Rae Tasker, Skye Bortoli, Stella McInnear

      and all the special children in Uki Village, N.S.W. Australia and

      everywhere who give me hope for the future of planet Earth.

      I also dedicate this book to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose vision and courageous, self-sacrificing efforts to save the ocean before it collapses surpass any environmental movement on planet Earth and to all environmental and wildlife activists who sacrifice themselves tirelessly to save planet Earth and its human and non-human inhabitants.

      Acknowledgment

      Thanks to Maneka Gandhi for taking the time to write the foreword; to Earl Bingley of www.canadiansvoiceforanimals.com and Susan Liberty Hall for encouraging me to get this story published; to the inspirational artwork of Linda True-Arrow; and to Kathy Stewart and Lynda Staker for editorial assistance.

      CONTENTS

      DEDICATION

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCTION

      PART 1 – DISASTER ON PLANET TARJEZ

      1. All Alone

      2. How Tarjez Used to Be

      3. Magical Animals

      4. Why Things Went Very Wrong

      5. Escape!

      6. Coming Home

      PART 2 – PROJECT ARKTEL

      7. Reaching the Children

      8. Project Arktel

      9. Mission Statement

      10. Solving Arktel’s Problems

      Too Many People

      Too Many Pets

      Not Enough Raw Materials

      Forests and Wildlife Disappearing

      Pollution and Disease

      a) Food

      b) Transport

      c) Chemicals

      d) Sewage

      Stressed Oceans

      Too Much Crime

      Attitude to Nature

      11. Churches Get Involved

      12. Enjenikel in Trouble

      13. Teamwork

      14. Plan of Action

      Team Science/Research

      Team Art

      Team Music, Poetry, Dance

      Team Building

      Team Education

      Team Public Speaking

      Team Cookbook

      Team Movies

      15. Next Setback for Enjenikel

      16. Meeting School Leaders

      17. Going to Parliament

      18. The Final Push

      19. Movie of Tarjez

      PART 3 – PROJECT ARKTEL’S FINAL BATTLE

      20. Our New President

      21. An End to War

      22. Win-Win Business

      23. Respecting our Environment

      24. New Attitude to Animals

      25. Healing Naturally

      26. Heart of Arktel Opens

      27. No More Prisons

      28. Fun Schools

      PART 4 – A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN OF EARTH

      29. Song of Arktel

      30. The Seed

      ENDORSEMENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      1. Janos despairs as his world dies

      2. Smelling Flowers on Tarjez

      3. Land Animals on Tarjez

      4. Sea Animals on Tarjez

      5. Order of the Wealthy Nobles

      6. Underground House on Arktel

      7. Children Saving Our Forests

      8. Community Gardens on Arktel

      9. Sculptures from Ocean Trash

      10. Arktel Children Helping Lonely Old People

      11. Children Approaching the Councils

      12. Elelle’s Flier

      13. Children Demonstrating in the Streets

      14. Movie of Tarjez

      15. Samtek’s Frequency being Measured

      16. Growing Plants in Giant Pyramids

      17. Holara’s Dance Therapy in Hospital

      18. Underground Prison on Our Moon

      19. Studying Insects at School

      20. Children Singing ‘The Song of Arktel’

      FOREWORD

      One of my favourite poems is written by a cockroach, Archy, a poet-philosopher who jumps on the keys of a typewriter.

      Archy was invented by Don Marquis – but I know he did not have to be invented – every creature on this earth is as sentient as we are, much more intelligent and as they see their world disappearing, standing helpless in the face of guns and violence inflicted by one species on all the others of this planet, infinitely sadder.

      Man depends on each plant, each drop of rain, each smidgeon of algae to live. It is amazing that he saws away relentlessly and foolishly at the branch on which he sits. And, having destroyed this planet, dreams of conquering worlds in space.

      Writes Archy:

      "As a representative of the insect world I have often wondered

      On what man bases his claims to superiority. Everything he knows he has had to learn. Whereas we insects are born

      Knowing everything we need to know"

      (Quote from Don Marquis,

      The Lives and Times of archy and mehitabel)

      I feel the same anguish as Archy when I have to deal with ignorant people who want to kill everything that moves - and when these people occupy positions of power where they can influence decisions I feel even more afraid for the earth and all her inhabitants.

      What makes me even more anxious is the apathy and despair of those people who do not believe they have any power to change things, and so they lurch from ignorance to irresponsibility and leave the decision-making to a handful of people who know and feel even less.

      Read this book and change. The time has passed for seminars and lectures. You need to get out and use your power to change policies – and to change yourself. Use less, want less, kill no more either for eating or for using. You can change the world in a week if you believe you can. But first you have to be the change you want to bring about. Nature works on strong principles of morality – something all the earth religions knew – and you need to attune yourselves to them, if we are all to survive.

      The basic dharma of each person is Do unto Others as You would Have them Do Unto You. Would you want the Earth to do to you what you are doing to her? Would you want the grass and the forests and the animals to do to you what you do to them? All violence boomerangs and now we find that we are going to be the ultimate victims.

      It is not your knowledge that needs to increase. It is your sense of survival.

      Maneka Gandhi –

      May, 2008,

      India

      introduction

      For a long time I have been trying to help our planet. I see that humans are not taking good care of our rivers, soil, air, trees, mountains and oceans. Every day over 100 types of plants and animals go extinct and it fills me with great sadness.

      And so I have been going out into the world trying to get people to join me in making some good changes. Most of the people walk by me as if in a dream, not caring about this world or the future. Or they say they care but then do nothing. But I have always noticed that it is the children who have the greatest desire to save our whales, dolphins, seals, and all kind of animals.

      They look at me with big eyes full of soul because they understand that all creatures are special. Perhaps at home they have a dog or a cat, a bird or a rat for a pet and have learned to love all animals.

      It is the children who want to help and get involved in projects with me. And so we make it fun. I set up small tables on the ground with a blanket to sit on and give them lots of paper, crayons, coloured pencils, markers and coloured pens. They write heartfelt letters to the Australian Prime Minister asking him to please protect animals. On their letter they make a beautiful drawing of that animal, then write the address on an envelope.

      I notice the parents glow with pride when I show them their child’s work, yet that adult would not take the time to write a letter themselves. It seems that the child is teaching the adult for a change.

      Adults have many jobs to do every day such as going to work, shopping, cleaning, driving kids to school and so on and don’t have time to think about anything more than taking care of their own families. But the children have more time and are thinking about their world and how it will be when they grow up. For them caring about the planet is the same as caring about themselves, except in a bigger way.

      And so it is that I look to the children to save our magnificent Earth – and it is in them that I have faith. There are huge problems to overcome but the biggest one is in our attitude. Do we believe we can make a difference or do we feel like giving up before we even start?

      Never doubt yourself, dear child. You have the power to touch the coldest people by caring from the bottom of your heart. The adults do notice.

      After all most parents have kids they love and if those kids ask their parents to help them save the planet so they can have a future, I’m sure they will listen. And if all the children ask their parents to help them, together you can start a revolution!

      We are running out of time. Koalas are heading to extinction along with many Australian animals and plants. If we keep going the way we are, there will be only people, cows, dogs, cats, cars, buildings, houses, shopping centres, roads and a few trees. How would you feel knowing there were no more platypus, kangaroos, possums, koalas, wombats, green frogs, water hens and so on? When you grow up, will you tell your children that koalas existed when you were a kid but they are no more left? Wouldn’t it be better to try and make sure they these animals don’t go extinct before it’s too late?

      It is my sincere desire for this book to be in the hands of every child on the planet, and in the hands of all the parents and teachers.

      Adults are the ones who have wrecked this Earth, not only for our children, but for every living thing. Surely nothing is as important as doing everything in our power to stop the destruction of our beautiful blue- green planet?

      I hope this book inspires you to do something - anything. I am sure that if you do, it will make you very happy because helping others brings peace. If you only care about yourself you can never find true ever- lasting happiness.

      May all the angels look down on you and smile. You are precious!

      Menkit Prince, February, 2010

      Someday the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die too.

      -John Hollow Horn, Ogala Lakota, 1932

      PART 1

      DISASTER ON PLANET TARJEZ

      Chapter 1:ALL ALONE

      Janos looked around him. In all directions smoke was filling the air as it escaped from cracks in the ground. The cracks were getting wider, and as they did so the planet made a frighteningly loud crunching noise and started to shake. He had no idea where the next crack might open up.

      The ground beneath his feet kept getting hotter. He climbed to the top of the mountain where he found a cave. It was a little bit cooler in there.

      It had been many weeks since he left his home and he had no food or water. He hadn’t eaten for so long and he was weak. His bones were sticking out under his dry skin. If only he could drink something! His mouth was dry and his throat felt like it was on fire. Desperate, he licked the side of the cave wall where there was a little moisture, but it wasn’t enough.

      He had never felt so afraid his whole life. He looked at the small tree in a pot he had lovingly carried with him all the way from his home far away. He knew this tree was fragile and precious and he treasured it like no tree had ever been treasured in the history of his world. He held the tree in his hands and looked at it, feeling its life force, knowing that soon he and the tree would be dead. He had been hoping he could plant it, but where? He looked over the valley but saw nowhere safe. His heart filled with grief and he put his face in his hands. He saw what his people

      had done and his heart was broken.

      Everything he knew and loved was gone – his family, his friends, his old neighbours and his home. Gone was the song of the beautiful animals, the trees, fresh air.

      All alone, he was the last living thing on Planet Tarjez. In between the rumbling of the earth and hissing of the hot steam there was an eerie silence.

      How could this be happening? For years his people were told that when their world came to an end a magnificent Sky Being would come and take them to a special place where they would be happier than ever. But where was this Sky Being? He looked up at the sky but only saw smoke and black clouds. He coughed and choked for a few minutes.

      Janos became very angry and yelled out at the top of his voice and with his last bit of strength:

      YOU LIED!!!!

      His voice echoed across the valley but nobody answered back. He started to sob out loud and he cried for all the beings who had died in pain because of the greed and stupidity of his people. Could it be that the reason why the Sky Being didn’t come was because the people didn’t wait patiently for the world to end by itself, and destroyed it themselves?

      And he started to pray very hard that if there was ever another planet like Tarjez that the people would never make the same mistake and destroy it.

      *****

      At that exact moment in the sky behind him hovered a flying saucer. This saucer was from a faraway planet who had been visiting planet Tarjez for thousands of years. The pilot, whose name was Enjenikel, along with his two children Ellelle and Rotarrh, saw Janos and were watching him closely. The sound monitors on the outside of their craft had picked up Janos’ scream and they were wondering what was going on.

      Janos Despairs as his World Dies

      Ellelle and Rotarrh said to their father Dad, what if he’s in trouble? We better go and help!

      Not yet, replied their father, experienced in extraterrestrial journeys. We have to observe a bit longer before we can determine if it’s safe to land and whether indeed we can help him.

      As they zoomed their radar towards him, suddenly Janos was overcome with weakness and fell to the ground unconscious.

      Ellelle was hysterical now Dad, see! He needs help! We have to help him right away.

      *****

      What was happening to Janos? His mind and body felt completely relaxed and strangely peaceful, as if he was floating in a warm pool of water. All the sounds around him stopped and he lost awareness of all sensations in his body, but his mind was aware.

      All the memories of his life flashed before him in a split second as if he was back there all over again. As this was happening to Janos, Enjenikel had been using his thought measuring machine and reversing it backwards in time to record everything that had happened to Janos.

      It turned out that Enjenikel was right to wait because, right after he had finished doing that, the mountain on which Janos was lying exploded and fireballs were hurled into the sky, forcing Enjenikel’s craft to flee for its safety. Had they tried to land they would have been blown up too.

      As soon as they were safely away from Tarjez, Enjenikel checked his thought- reversal machine and started unwinding the images from Janos’ mind as he died. What followed next was the most amazing thing Enjenikel and his kids had ever seen.

      Chapter 2: HOW TARJEZ USED TO BE

      All around Janos were unbelievable flowers with brilliant

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