Dr Abe V Rotor
This
editorial cartoon, The Joy of New Life, accompanies the editorial
Still Poor, PDI March 21, 2016, following Easter Sunday.
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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 an ecological crisis.
As 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 -
all
but
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"? ~
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