FORGING PEACE WITH NATURE

Our world is so much concerned about the actions and inactions of terrorist such that we leave our actions and inactions that impact the world seasons through global warming and its rippling effect, climatic change, to a few people to decide.

If we can put billions of hard earned tax payer’s dollars into putting systems and technologies in place to track, thwart and prevent the daily activities of terrorist, what are we doing to curb global warming and its devastating natural disasters it leaves in its wake?

If we have stepped on the toes of the terrorists, they are men with like passions like us, we can plead our cause with diplomacy, compensations and ceasefire, but if we step on the tip toes of nature with our carbon emissions through so called industrialization without cause to the feeling of our environment, it will never forgive us but will surely pinch us with its devastating and debilitating stings.

If we can commit the same resources we have committed to curbing terrorism in the past to this cause, it will not be necessary to face nature’s begrudged diplomatic corps to sit at the table of compromise. Our actions would have spoken for itself, if we can develop systems and technologies that will enormously and forever reduce the emission of carbon to the barest minimum.

The tsunami that just ripped parts of Japan confirms the fact that nature is ranting its fierce anger at us and it’s not turning back. Nature is no more interested in our rhetorics and cheap promises, now nature wants to see actions and solutions.  Nature says it has reached its limits and can only vent it distress and pressures at the door step of our world. Nature says I will leave a scar on the conscience of man for the scars he has serrated on my back. Nature says I will also turn your luxuries into ashes because you have trodden on my pristine. You have defiled my virgin forests and my fallow grounds you have evaded and trampled upon. You have converted my haven for wildlife and made it your sewage and waste disposal sites. Nature says that since you have changed my yearly seasons, I will change and revert your seasons as well.

I call on you not because you have the ability to deliver promissory notes, but I call on you to deliver solutions that will make this present God has given to us a worthwhile. That God’s present can be handed over to our children’s children in its entirety and wholesomeness. It will be handed over to posterity in its pristine and virgin state.

I call on you to make legislatures, laws and mandates that will prevent those who are not sensitive to the plight of our environment to be brain washed and indoctrinated to behave environmentally. To know that their actions and inactions, their selfishness and quest to enrich their accounts without cause to the environment is a bane to our world; God’s gift.

Human beings from the inception of the world’s creation have been selfish, never sensitive to the plight of other creations. Flora is wailing so loud that the heavens echo with their cry. Flora suffocates with our waste which ideally is their food. Flora says now am intoxicated and cannot take it anymore.

Fauna has no abode to rest as man enlarges his abode through erection of mansions and estates that he barely sleeps in. Man acquires “toys” to satisfy his ever ending lust and pride not mindful of the harm he is causing his environment.

The true greatness and might of man is for him to lie being mindful of what goes on in his environment. Man then invests his resources to championing the resurrection and regeneration of his environment. Man looks forward to seeing deserts turned into canopy of forest. He hears the sweet twittering of birds, the mooing of cattle and the rushing of streams and rivers.

Then man can say he is achiever and the guardian/custodian of this world. Then man can walk tall and not crouch. Then man can live at peace with his Maker and environment in unison. Then man can worship being in tune with his spirit and communicating with his maker and not scared and haunted by his actions and inactions.

Let us make new resolutions we are burnt on achieving and conquering, let us fight to recover the world we have lost to out lust and evil passions. Let us live such that our children’s children will be happy to live in this world that was handed to us by God through our fore fathers.

We have all the resources and power to change the world into a haven for flora and fauna and present a worthy gift to posterity. We are called at this moment to act to save our world because the creator made us custodians.

Global warming is a global issue and we need to nib it in the bud once and for all