Time to Take Stock and Pray
More and more people are getting convinced of the dangerous times we are living in calamities, mostly natural ones, come one after the other.
There appears to be little surcease or relief, especially in this third quarter of July, August and September during which we’ve seen all sorts of disasters happen, going by our common experience of past years and decades.
Disaster preparedness is never as pronounced as during these particular times in the calendar. You survive or live through the trilogy of months and you breathe a sigh of relief somehow-and look forward to a more stable period the rest of the year.
If it’s any comfort to us who are reeling from one disaster to the next, other parts of the world are in similar, if not worse, straits. From America to Europe to Africa, the mind reeling episodes of calamities that claim thousands of lives are happening, brought to our living rooms by the power of television.
Al Gore’s much-reviewed treatise of the effects of global warming thru the documentary An Inconvenient Truth is here-and it’s now. Not later, not tomorrow, not a decade. And it’s frightening.
The efforts of intelligent leaders and planners to avert crisis are all coming to naught amid the large-scale disasters occurring and for which we mortals are ill-prepared to face.
The fact is, the sooner we accept the inevitable, the less worried and panicky we would be. Take the energy crisis brought about mainly by the greediness of the world’s oil producers. If worse comes to worse, with gas prices rising to the heavens, we’d soon have all those private cars off the streets and presto, we have lesser air pollution! If the LPG dealers price themselves out of the market, people would be resorting to cooking using coal and other renewal sources of energy the way our forefathers did in their time. There’d be no need for snatching the family budget for meals and shelter just to be able to buy a tank of fuel to cook.
This world started very simply. It is there where we could one day return – safe, uncomplicated and happy. Louis Armstrong the black singer, in his low gravelly voice, sang of it in his classic hit What a Wonderful World.
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