This year's Earth Day coincides with Orthodox Christians' Good Friday, the Day of Epitaph Lamentation that is strewn with spring flowers and myrrh, foreshadowing the imposition of light over darkness, anticipating life over death.
This temporary delusion that has convinced evil that it can dominate life and good and resurrection gives us an opportunity for reflection. To measure our actions and to measure ourselves again against the bar of our true stature and that on the basis of our relationship with the natural elements.
The Climate Crisis, as another death threat, measures our endurance and our ability to impose good: Respect and compliance with natural imperatives.
To focus on our selfish nature versus our humanity and our relationship with other people.
To examine our relationship with the earth, with animals and plants and how all this translates into daily action and activity.
It calls our attention to the responsibility of our actions that ought to protect humanity and restore it to its basic principles and values: To the earth that we must not seal any longer, to the air that we must clean to breathe better, to the water that we must purify to give life and not problems. Ultimately, in the need for unanimity among men to overcome their selfish nature, the temporary and insignificant, and to realize the necessity of a responsible contribution to the moral obligation of collectivity that will elevate Man to claim life, and "pressed death".
Only then will we celebrate World Earth Day.
Happy Resurrection to all,
Happy Earth Day.
(PM/EC)
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