Is it about ways to rule our planet through means unimaginable or simply to slow down on our approach to life and preserve our environment?
Happy Earth Day 2010, everyone. Owing to the tremendous delay in publication, I would like to indicate that I have written this article the 22nd day of April in commemoration of the Earth Day 2010. So if this post gets published sometime next day or week I hope I could still save my point for sharing. As we sniff our share of air from this very day we might as well reflect upon the degree of ‘freshness’ in it or the level of its toxicity. I doubt if most of us could savor that fresh air in the midst of a busy city caught up in the humdrum of its business activities. I suppose if there’s some air we could label as fresh, we owe it to the lost tribes thriving at the heart of the Amazon while a horde of chain saw- wielding lumberjacks from a logging company topple down the trees surrounding it every minute. From simple celled organisms called “prokaryotes” we have arrived to this point in our long evolution as a power hungry specie in the animal kingdom worthy of admiration (or humiliation), you decide.
A week ago, in 14 April the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (I hope I got the spelling right) in Iceland placed all Domestic and International flights on hold in most airports over Europe. It was a time of reckoning where when Mother Nature draws her own power, we have no control over it but to wait. But I doubt of course if in certain parts of the globe some mining companies have halted their operations for a moment in drilling holes down the surface to extract oil or in obliterating the surface with dynamites to extract iron ores or anything worth mining for a marketable value.
As far as I could see it, we are destroying this planet faster than she could recuperate from the wounds we have inflicted and by such time comes that Mother Nature calls for a major overhaul we might as well be flushed out of her system when she so decides to detoxify herself. So it seems justifiable that we have all reasons to be restless and wreak havoc far as we could considering our limited lifespan and highly unstable state of thinking. Soon or late even the mightiest billionaire in the world will be just a heap of raw mineral returning to the surface of the earth exacting the same part of it he took at the prime of his life powering all his whims and endeavours.
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