The Seven Pillars of the Joy of New Life challenge us against our own indifference and abuse against Nature

The Seven Pillars of the Joy of New Life

in deference to our love of Nature - but where does Nature come in?

These seven pillars challenge us against our own

indifference and abuse against Nature.

  

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature School on Blog [avrotor.blogspot.com]

This editorial cartoon, The Joy of New Life, accompanies the editorial Still Poor, 

PDI March 21, 2016, following Easter Sunday. 

What role has environment to The Joy of New Life, 

and to the state of being Still Poor"?

Poverty undermines the pillars of truly a happy life;

it creates its own world apart. 

Anthropocentric regard of human supremacy over

all creatures, itself is an ecological crisis.

Man re-shapes the Earth at will for his needs

and wants disguised as values.

Education for literacy, justice for equality, freedom

as right are licenses to anthropocentrism. 

Dignity sets man on a pedestal, lord and master  

of all creation, rational and supreme.

Who enthroned man with such power, but a god 

he claims the source of his power.   

Self-anointed, he wills as his god wills, acts in his behalf,

in an authoritarian rule.

Collective referendum, consultation, decision are all 

by mankind alone, sans all creatures on earth.    

Who stops him from cutting down whole forests,

dam rivers, level mountains? 

All in pursuit of progress, in the name of civilization,

for wealth, comfort and happiness.

And mankind covers the earth, aims at the universe,

challenges now the god in his mind.

And reasons out, rationality after all justifies

both good and evil, acts as amoral.

Deserts expand, land, air and water foul with waste,

"Tragedy of the commons" breeds war.

Nations break up, millions in exodus to nowhere, 

where there was once progress.

Where there was once a paradise, a golden city

in its place, now also gone. 

 

What role has environment to The Joy of New Life, 

and to the state of being Still Poor"?

These seven pillars challenge us against our own

indifference and abuse against nature.

Lesson on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School-on-Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio, 738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday