Another Choice

Seven billions of human beings exist today materially, at the same time: how many among them all are living in harmony?

With themselves, with their milieu, with their environment?

With this Nature that lends them life?

With this Earth that nourishes them?

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Has there ever been upon this earth so many beings in need?

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Has there ever been more harmful a species or even as harmful as ours upon this earth?

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We – humans – pullulate, devour, devastate, spoil and mar, exhaust, poison, deface, pollute and waste and mistreat and nothing seems to be able to slow or divert our advance: this sinister and malevolent magic we name “development”.

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All of our bodies issued from our bodies issued from our bodies, this blind sexed proliferation which threatens a universal equilibrium, which respects nothing but its own expansion and satisfaction – is this what we have chosen, for which we were born human?

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