Thursday, April 11, 2024

Lesson on TATAKalikasan: UN International Day of Conscience, April 5, 2024 - "Promoting the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience."

                Lesson on TATAKalikasan Ateneo de Manila University

87.9 FM Radyo Katipunan, 11 to 12 a,m, Thursday
UN International Day of Conscience, April 5, 2024
Theme: Promoting the Culture of Peace with Love and Conscience
(Original Title: Meditation over Disturbing Views in Critical Times)

"Residues in the mind while staying at home on quarantine,
of images contrary to our taste and conviction;
Real to our senses yet numb we are for whatever reason,
a passing review in our conscience for action." - avr

Photographs by Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Co-Host with Fr JM Manzano SJ, AdMU

1. Tetrapack anyone? San Mateo, Rizal. Aesop is alive. 
Can man really learn? 

2. Empty billboard and façade. Where is art, 
what good is architecture? 

 
 3. Makeshift "danger" sign. QC. What is road courtesy? 

 
 4. Cleared squatter area - relief and litter, QC. 
Law and abandon. 

5. Extreme drought, at the other side flood. 
Man-induced desertification. Bulacan
(Photo from the Grains Magazine, NFA)

6. Failed smoke emission test - still on the road. 
Commonwealth Ave., QC 

7. You don't enjoy Manila Bay sunset anymore - 
Air pollution. 

8. Aftermath of Tidal Wave. Illegal settlements. 
Morong Rizal 

9. Requiem to an old Kamachili tree - 
but whose dirge?  Bantay Ilocos Sur 

10. Overloaded bus on wrong side of the road. 
España, Manila. Fun in life's misery.

11. Road work on rush hour, QC. Just for show.

12. Dust and grit fly from gravel truck. QC. 
Blame the horses.

13. Flood and belched smoke and boy's will. Manila. 

14. Mine tailings, Benguet. "Flow sweet Afton" no more.

15. Defective drainage, danger to motorists 
and pedestrians. No danger sign.

16.  Where have all the Acacia trees gone?  
A typical scene. 

17. Garbage dumpsite - "where is, as is."
A typical scene. 

18. Lost puppy in the sky.  An appeal to dognappers.
(Dognapping is the crime of taking a dog from its owner.
The word is derived from the term kidnapping.)

19. Garbage, garbage everywhere.
A typical scene (before).

20. Garbage site transformed into a mini park.
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur. Mural by the author. 
  

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