Anthony Douglas Williams (Inside the Divine Pattern) has
said:
“The earth is large enough for
all to share, but mankind’s heart is not large enough to care.”
Gad! Do you suppose this is true?
My mind spins to images of animals wandering the earth in
search of food and clannish survival. All seems to be well for the time being,
but then the image is disturbed by man stepping into the scene. He has a gun;
he hunts the animal; not for food but for pelt and trophy. Man has trod these
animal havens for land to develop, minerals to mine, and supplies of water and
woods to fell for building materials. World markets to supply, you know. Never
mind the animals and their habitat.
Mankind’s heart is not large enough to care. Yes, that seems
to be true. But the earth is large enough to share. Yes, that seems to be true
as well. So why don’t we share?
Not sharing is a good definition of selfishness.
It doesn't take long, however, if concerted efforts by
corporations, industries and even national governments decide to protect large
swaths of land and all it contains for their own benefit. We see this behavior
on a global basis. British Petroleum believes it’s search for fossil fuels give
them license to despoil oceans, lakes, land masses and all else for the sake of
their mission – to find energy supplies wherever for whomever. One presupposes
the whomever is also ‘whoever will pay our price’!
The BP’s of the world are many. Exxon-Mobil is another,
General Electric still another, and many more plundering the earth for goods
they sell to others for a profit. Yet the land – water and air, too – is left
unable to sustain life of plants and animal after their plundering presence has
left all behind. There is a price for this lack of sharing. The natural world
is not something for others to make use of an discard, never to be used again
by anyone else.
They are depleting the earth’s riches and not replacing
them. They are despoiling our home planet for their own gain, not for our
fruitful purpose.
Anonymous:
“When the rich rob the poor, it’s
called business. When the poor fight back, it’s called violence…”
Who is the rich here? Who is the poor? The rich are
individuals who practice dominion over others for their own physical and
financial reward; so too corporations and nations that practice the same behavior.
But the poor? Are they always people? Or might they be of the animal kingdom;
perhaps even of the botanical kingdom?
Think predator animals ranging across the land taking lives
we think of as innocent when they see them as competitors of their habitat!
Think of plundered lands being shorn of trees and other plant life collapsing
during monsoon rains and causing massive flooding and mud slides. Or the
natural forest fires lit by chance lightening strikes burning millions of acres
of water shed growth. These are the natural outcomes of mankind not sharing the
planet fairly. There are prices to be paid. But who is paying that price.
Certainly not the markets. More likely it the animal and
plant kingdoms paying the price. And the quality of life for the rest of us
suffers and we pay that price as well. Not the market. Just the rest of us. The
common kind of mankind! The poor. The middle class. The under classes scattered
throughout the global community.
I spotted this quote on the internet the other day. I think
it is aptly shared here:
“I hope there’s an animal
somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope nobody ever sees it.” ~Author Unknown
To be sure. If that unknown and unseen animal does exist,
its very survival depends on its remaining hidden. Man’s greed would surely
exploit it out of existence. And Nature’s balance would yet again be
threatened.
All by sharing not!
February 13, 2014
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