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Sexta-feira, Dezembro 03, 2004

I See Them Coming

Due to schoolwork, and sometimes laziness, plus my 'fluctuating' fervor for reading materials other than books related to my course, I have not read the newspaper for months. This is not healthy in the same way that my being fat is not healthy. It's a realization now that my problem lies not only physically but mentally as well. Although news reports can be seen from wide screen televisions to keep me updated, the results are just not the same when you get informed through reading. My philosophy is that televisions are made generally to make people idle that's why it's always nice to hang out before the wide TV screen, with the sacred remote control in hand. You really don't have to think when you're watching the TV because TV loves to spoon-feed ideas to people (except maybe when you are watching a really intelligent film, or a quiz show and whatnot) and you need not burn too much calories when watching TV since the remote control does all the switching channels and stuff. Meanwhile in reading you sometimes tend to get a mental fatigue from trying to understand the concepts and using your imaginations all throughout (although that seems more exciting to me).

Like most average students, I like it when classes are suspended. This week, I only spent twelve hours in school because of suspended classes. I admit I'm enjoying the scenario because I can hibernate again. But with the tumultuous catastrophe happening in the entire Philippines, I doubt if I'm ever going to have a happy hibernation until the end of the week.

I love nature. This is to me the most obvious form of God's greatness. It made me realize that all creations are made on purpose, and that all are symbiotic with one another, whether one organism benefits or gets harmed.

I love nature so I discipline myself by not harming it. I find it very easy to throw refuse on the proper trash bins but I don't understand why many others don't know how to properly dispose of their garbage. A huge number of the entire population spit everywhere while men love to void on walls and electric posts. As a result, we get loads of floods in the metropolis because the road drains get clogged with all sorts of trash. And then we initially blame our government for our own mess.

I love the nature. But sometimes I feel guilty for not being able to take better care of our resources. I know how to water the plants but all my life I believe I have never really planted a tree. Everything is easier said than done. Again we put all the blame to illegal loggers for being so downright deviant and then the government for overlooking the situation. Nobody (or only a few) really sees that the fault is on all of us because we did not do our part in looking after nature although we know what to anticipate if we don't take care of it.

Neil Cruz is right when he said in his previous column that nature is already revolting against us. Chickens and pigs are packed closely with each other when being transported for slaughter and in some cases this caused the animals to get serious illnesses like bird flu and FMD. The losses caused by these viruses have been tremendous. The animals have been quarantined and slaughtered, and their carcasses burned. If the British had not fed the dairy cows scrapie, the cattle would never have had Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. Nor would the humans be prone to getting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder by consumption of beef from BSE-infected cows. Landslides and flashfloods would not have occurred had we replanted trees in the deforested areas.

The signs are everywhere. We just have to look more closely to them.


Carnaval took a nap at 10:12:00 AM

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