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The evacuation of any sort of scruple characterized world development in the ensuing years. The pursuit of immediate profit took precedence over any other consideration, whatever be the consequences and effects on natural equilibrium, or on peoples’ welfare. Large consortiums and multinationals seized power, bent on dictating to all how they must live and on controlling all products and their circulation over the entire earth – from seeds to the utilization of money, time and body.

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Alarm bells resounded already on all continents – ecologists, economists, medical doctors, sociologists and artists, poets and musicians attempted to warn the world of this rush to destruction. Scientific progresses led to associate disciplines that so far had been entrenched from one another, for the evidence was growing of a necessary complementarity of all approaches to really begin and grasp the physical and material reality, and all now could better comprehend the conditions of “natural” balance. But the exploiters, the predators and greedy robbers, in the likeness of the thieves of the ancient Veda, stood deaf, just as governments and States did, whose economies increasingly depended on the success of these new giants who would ransack and rape the earth till it dried out – from the manufacturers of more and more sophisticated arms and weapons to the industrial monopolies of mining, extraction, processing and distribution – and no natural resource was protected from their cunning puissance.

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