By Lalit de Klas
June 2011 – Lalit [the
revolutionary socialist party in Mauritius] sees
the natural universe, whether it be the air above us, the sea around us or the Earth we walk upon, and all that lives upon it, and even outer space, as being
our collective heritage as human beings. We are part of it, and also the
guardians of it. This natural universe, our Mother Earth, is now endangered.
Our planet is already
suffering irreversible damage, damage so serious as to threaten the very
existence of the totality of human civilisation in all its varied forms. We
humans have the minds to know this.
The threat is posed by our
own human-made forms of agricultural and industrial “development”. This is
serious because it is our way of survival that has become this destructiveness.
The main damage has been
done in the past 250 years. Increasingly serious damage is being done. And yet
most of us are oblivious to it, and once we know, we are “helpless”. We sit and
watch a potential meltdown of a nuclear plant in Japan, as the capitalists who
run it admit their own helplessness.
