Questions and Meditations

3 Malfeasance

Rivers and oceans have become our refuse bins.

Where is the horror?

Where is the awakening?

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This year, 2018, in Kerala, the southernmost State in the Indian peninsula, during the month of August, unprecedented floods took place – considerably aggravated by the “human factor”: unregulated construction along the water bodies, defective management of dams and choking of run-offs. The tons and tons of accumulated rubbish piled at the bottom of the rivers, ponds, basins and channels, were lifted up and borne every which way, mingling with crumbling soil, uprooted trees and fragments of collapsed buildings, broken vehicles and machinery.

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In the United States, in Canada, in New-Zealand, forests continue to burn.

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What is the source, or the cause, of this collective blindness?

How have we come to this state of monstrosity, how have we turned into these harmful creatures that pullulate all over the Earth and vitiate its atmosphere and devour, parasite and disrupt its entire organism?

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A human being and a horse, a human being and a wolf, or a dolphin, a tree or a garden, can together learn to recognize and respect and love one another, to grow one by the other, one with the other, one from the other.

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