Thursday, September 29, 2011

AGING MOTHER EARTH: ISN'T IT EVERYBODY'S CONCERN?

Before it is shocking to hear news about devastating calamities such as flashfloods, super typhoons, earthquakes of tremendous strength. But as we observed, their occurrence are becoming more frequent that a layman could not even explain why these had been happening recently. Why? Because their concern is not to maintain the ecological balance between man and mother nature; their main concern is how to survive the every day challenge of survival, to counter hunger even in an undecent way of living. Is there a way for them to understand the principle of climate change? Of global warming? None at all. Because their minds had already been bombarded with much sufferings brought about by competition for survival, because living on this very earth is full of uncertainties, of unfairness displacing the weak and raising tyrants to pedestal. Why this happened? If only we could transform the social triangle increasing the rich to majority and the poor otherwise, then we could probably change the figure of mother earth, too. Perhaps, we could share a little from ourselves to help change the face of the earth, after all it is us who would benefit its outcome.

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