Rout or passage

The seed of the disaster

As of today, the world-population is estimated at 7.8 billions and is expected to reach 8 billions in 2023 – three years from now.

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Those who have the means to act at their disposal and whose action influences the entire terrestrial world, are but an infinitesimal minority.

And yet we are all – humans, animal and plants – carried along.

Are we then impuissant?

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Where is, where does the first vice or defect lie, the first deformation, the first tumor in the body of our species?

Can the child who stands erect still see, across the ignorant din of motionless time – the time of all ages fused by the clarity of its gaze, can it still see the root of this devouring growth?

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