All over the world, human beings are degenerating to a greater or lesser extent. When pleasure, personal or collective, becomes the dominant interest in life – the pleasure of sex, the pleasure of asserting one’s own will, the pleasure of excitement, the pleasure of self-interest, the pleasure of power and status, the insistent demand to have one’s own pleasure fulfilled – there is degeneration. When human relationships become casual, based on pleasure, there is degeneration. When responsibility has totally lost its meaning, when there is no care for another or for the earth and the things of the sea, this disregard of heaven and earth is another form of degeneration. When there is hypocrisy in high places, when there is dishonesty in commerce, when lies are part of everyday speech, when there is the tyranny of the few, when only things predominate, there is the betrayal of all life. Then killing becomes the only language of life. When love is taken as pleasure, then human beings have cut themselves off from beauty and the sacredness of life.
"A society conditioned to obedience becomes easier to govern without accountability. Compliance can be quickly mobilised, while dissent is reframed as disloyalty or disruption. Those who question authority may be marginalised, while obedience is equated with good citizenship or patriotism."
“This isn’t just an oil crisis. It’s a food crisis in the making.” #fertilizers
The Gulf conflict imperils food security: “We’ve built a food system that rises and falls with the price of #oil” says @_RajPatel
It doesn't have to be this way.
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We worship rivers like mother, yet the water and air have become toxic.
Western Uttar Pradesh is becoming a “cancer belt” d*■ths are rising across the region, with one village reporting 100 d*■ths in three years.
In parts of western Uttar Pradesh, locals are reporting an unusual increase in cancer d*■ths, with one village alone reporting nearly 100 d*■ths in the last three years.
2 hrs from Delhi, a 'mystery disease' has gripped a village in Palwal district. 7 people including 4 kids have died in past 15 days. The symptoms: fever leading to death in 48 hrs. But the govt is yet to ascertain what's causing it @RichhariyaSneha reports https://t.co/K2Yp5wrc5K
Banned cancer-causing PFOS in groundwater & rivers at sites in Cumbria & Lancashire. One resident, whose business' water supply is contaminated, says she's had "no help, no advice, no support of any kind". Our latest article, out now:
https://t.co/tUw6MH4e0M
Women mural painters of Hazaribagh, Indian Tribal village, a sacred matriarchal tradition.Young girls learn the art from their mothers. Stylistically, the artists paint animals and plants, known as Khovar ritual paintings #WomensArt#StreetArtWeek
When I was in Jodhpur, I visited some nearby villages. I wondered if the dry landscape could be turned green.
Here is a lady who has found the answer and has turned barren desert into a thriving forest in Rajasthan. Amazing work and my pranams to her.
We have a lot of dry land in Tamil Nadu too and I would like to try her approach.