By SAM HUSSEINI
I understand many of you in the human race, at least those in
the north of what you call the Western Hemisphere, are talking much of the
“victims of mother nature” and such notions. The vast majority of these people
— in what you call the United States, particularly “the Gulf Coast”, are not My
victims, they are your victims. They are the victims of the corruption and
callousness of your social organizations — the governments and corporations in
which you have organized yourselves, or to which you have allowed yourselves to
be cohered.
The increased temperatures resulting from global warming which
your shortsighted “economic development” has wrought have, as your computer
models predicted, resulted in hurricanes of increased ferocity.
You buildup cities below sea level, where hurricanes regularly
go and then attempt to blame Me when there is a flood. You not only flout Me,
but you don’t attend to each other. The government of the USA — which claims to
represent the people — does not attend to the levees in New Orleans while you
spent your resources bombing people in what you call Iraq. Your complaints are
worse than the complaints of one who throws a stone straight up in the air and
then gets hit with it. Gravity is a given.
Continuously I create the days and seasons which bring forth the
miracle of Life. I understand there is very little discussion of that in your
“news” media. Reporters talk of the alleged “victims” or the “wrath of mother
nature”, but they do not talk of “the wonders of Mother Nature” which are
before all of you if you care to see them. I don’t say this for myself, but in
the hope that you will understand the realities of this Existence.
It is good that your media — which, if you let them, seem set
upon becoming your collective consciousness — have brought you images of your
most recent victims. These people are largely the poor of an affluent country -
victims of your bizarre pecking order based on possession of bits of green
paper; of deranged differentiating bases on skin color.
Hopefully, this will increase your caring for other humans on
the globe, particularly the poor of poor countries. Maybe you can take a good
look, people of the Unites States, at your other victims, most obviously those
in Iraq, they cry like the people in New Orleans. Or those starving in Niger,
which also has not occurred because of My actions — but inspire of them. It is
the economic policies of human, though inhumane, institutions which almost
always result in such tragedies.
The government of the United States is called by many a
“superpower.” What is power? Trillions of dollars and massive weapons to
destroy? That is not power, that is abomination. Bring forth Life — that is
Power.
You must look beyond these ways you categorize each other -
“color”, “nation”, “class”. Then you look beyond your species at all Creation.
Children of the Earth: You need to know one another. You people
in the USA particularly need to know the tragedies of war and poverty, even
though many of the affluent among you seem willfully oblivious to these
tragedies and their role in creating them. You are bent on a suicidal course
unless you organize yourselves in different ways. I wonder if such a death
might be your tacit choice, but why do you seem intent on endangering so much
of the rest of the Earth?
Please go here for the original essay: https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/14/a-statement-from-mother-nature/
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