Man-made disaster

Is the Leyte landslide a natural disaster or just another sign of our lack of concern for the conditions of the air, water, soil, plants, animals and our other natural surroundings?

As usual, calamities of this magnitude are followed by post mortem analysis of the true cause behind the tragedy.A weather forecaster said that the mountanous area had been deforested thereby reducing the water-holding capacity of the soil, making it "sloppy leading to mudslides" after heavy rains.The Department of Environment and Natural Resources on the other hand tells us only now, after the tragedy happened, that the cause is not the indiscriminate tree cutting or illegal logging. DENR experts say that the composition of the soil in the village that buried alive more than 200 residents is not "stable" enough to withstand erosion after heavy rains. The explanations given only raise more questions. If the place is dangerous, why was a village allowed to be established there? If deforestation is the cause, was the cutting of trees in the area authorized?

Whatever may be the cause of the Leyte landslide, one thing is clear. Despite a series of similar disasters previously occuring, we continue to be unconcerned with the environmental destructions that have caused so much loss of lives and damage to our natural resources.

Aside from the greed of a few who exploit our natural resources with the connivance of government officials, the bigger picture of this latest tragedy brings to the fore once more a very alarming development in the world involving the rich and poor nations and their natural resources.

Countries, whether economically rich or poor, are endowed by the Creator with natural resources to be conserved and developed for the benefit of their own people. But in third world countries like the Philippines, this is not the case. Natural resources in poor countries like us are exploited and used by rich countries so that these rich countries can preserve their own natural resources. Finding themselves in dire economic straits,poorer nations are forced to allow their natural resources to be used and sometimes recklessly exploited by the rich nations as a matter of survival. On the other hand, rich countries continue to enjoy the good life of a healthy environment as they are able to conserve their own natural resources.

This global situation where the world’s resources are not equitably available to the world’s people somehow confirms the plan of a certain shadowy but very powerful group of people from rich nations out to create a new world order by gaining, among others, environment or ecological control. This is the plot exposed in a book "Conspiracy Against Life" that also includes population control in countries like India, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, Philippines, Thailand, Egypt and Colombia, by eliminating the terminally ill, the aged, handicapped, the unborn and those known as "useless eaters" from the face of the earth as contained in a document known as the "Kissinger Report". More frightening in this plot is the attack against the Catholic Church which is considered as the ultimate enemy that has to be eliminated. Hence the objectives of this group have been categorized as "Luciferic in nature and against God". What’s happening right now in our country and in other parts of the world somehow prove that there is indeed a conspiracy against life. These are the times indeed that call for more prayer and penance.

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