Thursday, 29 January 2015

The Earth is crying

Among populations that still live close to nature (very few!), that we call primitive from the height of our pride or stupidity, there is a concept of cyclical time tied to the natural rhythm of the seasons. For the Greeks it was the same, Nature was eternal, it was contemplated and even the social order had to reflect this natural pattern, although already Socrates began to see men independently from Nature. With Christianity time begins to be experienced as linear and God, who created humans from nothing, gives them power over Nature. With the Renaissance, Humanism, from Descartes on, God is removed from the center. Mankind is at the centre of the world nowadays and can dominate and manipulate Nature as a God but with the danger of destroying everything. The most tragic aspect is that we think we can dominate the technical device that we invented but in reality we are controlled by it. How do we get out of this? First, we must change the way we think.
We need to put limits to our activities and ourselves. Mankind cannot be at the center of everything, but needs to be in harmony with Nature that surrounds us, stay rooted in Mother Earth and feel as a whole with It. We need to create an ethic that involves the defense of Nature.
Will we change our way of thinking, decrease the economic activity, use the technique to clean up the environment and then live in harmony in it? Possible but very unlikely if we do not start acting immediately.

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