1. Environmental Crisis: The moment to act is now.
Today is the first day of my life. I was born today, when I woke up.
I woke up in a world where the sky is not as blue as they said; where the flowers do not
smell the way they are supposed to; where the garbage and the things that people no
longer use are thrown into those which once were green paths. I was born in a world
where people walk along the streets without looking at each other instead of living and
communicating as equals. I was born in this world. A world that has been submitted to a
coming extinction because of the emanations of greenhouse-effect gases, deforestation,
genocide, hunger, human and animal exploitation and hundreds of other factors which
have only one big responsible: Human Race.
The human race was created by God with a purpose: ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth
and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
every living thing that moves on the earth.’
God said we had dominion over the other living creatures and that the Earth was our
place to live, a gift from him to us.
I am not here as a Christian woman and I am not here to quote lines from the Bible. I am
here as a person who asks you to have in mind that when someone gives you a present
you take care of that present.
Mother Earth is our present, life is our present, so we need to remember that when we
cut a tree, when we throw garbage to the ground, when we throw something in the sink
because we might think it will dissolve in the water, when we see a person mistreating an
animal because it’s in its way or just for fun.
Global Warming and the entire planet’s destruction are happening now and it gets worse
and worse every minute.
We are the only solution to this problem and using daylight everyday or helping someone
homeless with something to eat, may be little but big steps to save our most precious gift:
life.
