The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday April 22nd, 2022 – International Mother Earth Day
International Mother Earth Day was established in 2009, by the United Nations General Assembly under Resolution A/RES/63/278. The Resolution was introduced by The Plurinational State of Bolivia and endorsed by over 50 member states. It recognizes that “the Earth and its ecosystems are our home” and that “it is necessary to promote harmony with nature and the Earth.” The term Mother Earth is used because it “reflects the interdependence that exists among human beings, other living species and the planet we all inhabit”. It is decided to designate April 22 as International Mother Earth Day.
The Day of Mother Earth: Living in Harmony with Nature by Rene Wadlow
International Mother Earth Day on 22 April each year was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. Its aim is to promote living in harmony with Nature and to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations. The concept of living in harmony with Nature was seen by the U.N. delegates as a way “to improve the ethical basis of the relationship between humankind and our planet.” It is the biosphere to which we belong. It is becoming the common heritage of mankind which we must defend.
The term “Mother Earth” is an expression used in different cultures to symbolize the inseparable bonds between humans and Nature. Pachamama is the term used in the Andean cultures of South America. The Earth and the ecosystem is our home. We need to care for it as a mother is supposed to care for her children and the children to show love and gratitude in return. However, we know from all the folk tales of the evil stepmother as well as the records of psychoanalytic sessions that mother-children relations are not always relations of love, care and gratitude. Thus to really live in harmony with Nature requires deep shifts in values and attitudes, not just “sustainable development” projects.
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Shining City #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“At night the outlines
Of buildings are erased,
And the lights glow suspended
In the air like the guts of
Glow-in-the-dark fish;”
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Stumbles and Fictions: The Australian Election Campaign Begins by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
That a figure like Scott Morrison comes across as competent, able and free of imbecility after a day of electioneering in Australia suggests a broader sickness in politics. This is not to say that the incumbent will not be skewered and bayoneted at the ballot box on May 21 by Australia’s burghers. But this is a man who has made supreme vacuity an essential feature of governance. His opponent, Labor’s Anthony Albanese, finds mendacity and controlling the narrative virtually impossible, but struggles to convey an air of well-informed competence.
The Morrison government has done wonders to bankrupt Australian politics. (Reserves were already depleted when it came to power.) Fictional figures are trotted out from a set of smelling salts and entrails that bear no relation to reality. The idea of a plan to deal with the economy and global crisis (energy prices, climate, China, war in Ukraine) is mentioned with Goebbels-like frequency, despite the fact that this government had made the absence of plans almost illegally unfashionable.
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Tang & Ram #033 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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