Kim’s Dream – Orlan Ravanera
Global Poverty, Environmental Destruction & Gross Inequity
The onslaught of various types of ecological disasters globally has dawned upon us that indeed the earth is now on the precipice of its 6th extinction after the 5th extinction which happened some 63 million years ago when asteroids hit the earth that put to extinction the dinosaurs. This time, the falling down of the earth to the precipice is anthropogenic (man-made). Indeed, we are now on the 23rd year of the 21st century but we are not sure anymore if we can reach the 22nd century which is just 77 years from now. It is already scientifically concluded, for example, that the 200-hectare urban center of Cagayan de Oro will be underwater in the next 25 years as proven by a study that the global sea level will rise by 16 meters high, thus, the city will be under 48-ft under water. Perhaps this is the reason why Xavier University Campus is being sold to the Cebu Landmasters, Inc.
Various questions are being raised worldwide, which are appearing in the social media: such as, ”What have we done with the beautiful world we were given as a home? What are we doing with it? We have polluted our water, our air. We have polluted the ocean with oil. We’ve made a desert where there was once a green meadow. We’ve reduced to bottom-trawling the ocean for fish, irrevocably destroying the ocean ecosystem. We’ve chopped the rainforest. We’ve irrevocably harmed the global environment in the process. All for the sake of corporate globalization.”
Corporate globalization has totally disregarded the oneness and interconnectedness of all of God’s creation. Humanity through the rule of one-percent of global corporation has been controlled by the super-eco (devil) which has buried mankind to the whims and caprices of the mundane through unbridled materialism and consumerism amidst denigration of spirituality. Let us not forget the oneness and sacredness of the ecology. This is foremost in the hierarchy of the laws of nature as everything is inter-connected. No sun, no air, no water, no life. No forest, no river, no crops, no food. It is that simple.
Exploit and kill the forest ecosystems and all other ecosystems will perish with all the billions of flora and fauna that have been there for millions, if not, billions of years, even before the homo sapiens came into being. By seniority, these plants and animals that constitute the megadiversity have more rights than the humans to exist. In just one hundred years, our country has lost its 17 million hectares of dipterocarp forest which is endemically the richest on earth. Don’t you know that in the 5,000-ha.-Mt. Kitanglad Range, the number of flora and fauna is greater than what is found in the one billion hectare-continent of North America? But no more as these billions of species have been sacrificed to the altar of greed and profit through corporate globalization in utter disregard to life’s spirituality amidst morale collapse and religious apathy. So puzzling why we have not heard the cries of the birds and of the trees while they were being massacred. All we do is to kneel down before images that came from the imagination of the painter Leonardo da Vinci. Don’t you know that protecting God’s vanishing creation is the highest form of worship as nature is the reflection of the Formless Unseen Being, the Creator?
Well, am not surprised. In the last century alone, human killed each other reaching more than 150 million deaths because of two world wars and the so-called cleansing of Hitler and Pol Pot. Such brutality of the homo sapiens to their own kindred has manifested the diabolic nature of man unseen in other species. If humans can do that to their own kind, more so to those they described as lower forms of life notwithstanding the truism that all life is sacred. Indeed, man has been created in the image and likeness of God but he has reduced the image of God to his own image, even creating the AI (artificial intelligence). That is the manifestation of man’s super-ego controlled by Satan.
Even GAIA (Mother Earth) is now dying because of the diabolic acts committed by the new comer species called the homo sapiens whose existence came about 700 million years ago while plants and animals existed for more than three billion years.
According to studies, the poorest of the poor now are our fisherfolk in coastal communities as 10 of the 13 major bays in the country are now biologically dead. This is very painful in an archipelago which was once described by Kent Capenter, the President of the Food and Agricultural Organization as the “Center of the center of marine life on earth.” This is in addition to the fact that by unit area, the Philippines has been tagged as the richest on earth in terms of endemicity.
Who controls? Who decides? Who benefits? Only big business, the oligarchs, the cartels through corporate globalization, highly adhering to a flawed development paradigm which can be likened to a giant-off-balance. So as not to fall, the giant must run and in running it steps on communities, the fragile ecosystems, the ozone layer and GAIA herself – ALL FOR THE SAKE OF CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION. Enough is enough of the fallacies of life and religions.
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