Under Growth The Earth's Heart
Everyday should be Earth Day.
Kids growing up on farms understand the earth much better than city kids who were born and raised on concrete streets and playgrounds. But both do not understand what holds the earth together, a sort of glue, construction cement or grout used for floor tiles.
Trees hold the ground together, stones and rocks too, but they get in the way when ‘civilization’ wants to mine gold or build train tunnels, shops and new houses.
And the solution? Dynamite is brought in to blow up the earth, which gets dizzy when stabilizing forces like roots and rocks are gone. It becomes like you getting dizzy, because you haven’t had anything to eat the whole day.
We don’t know much about the glue or cement that holds the earth together because we don’t see it. We only know the upper part, trees and plants.
Dynamite physically removes them, but it destroys a whole natural system that feeds off each other to hold the ground together.
We only take notice when disaster strikes. An apartment building or office block just crumbles to the ground because of greedy construction companies, that bypass building plans to siphon off money.
‘Civilization’ will continue to blast off nature for what is called development, but one day humanity will pay the price for destroying the glue network, that holds the earth together.
Never! It will, like Covid-19.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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