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AFRIKA IS GOD'S
In Defence ofAir
By Fr Anselm Adodo
or me, one of the air. And yet, one of the most phones, iPods, iPads, com-
most striking aspects glaring signs of our disconnect puters, atomic bombs, social
of the COVID-19 from nature is our neglect of the media, newspapers, all of which
pandemic is how the air we breathe. In the world of so readily grab our senses and
Fmost important and modernity, the air has become mould our participation with the
powerful symbol of life, the air a forgotten dump site for a host world.
we breathe, has also become a of gaseous effluents, radiations,
suspicious carrier of the deadly and industrial pollutants. We COVID-19 is calling our atten-
virus. We now wear face masks have totally ignored the impor- tion to the changes happening
to protect us from an enemy tance of the quality of the air in the air itself. The changing at-
that we think may enter into we breathe and its significance mosphere, global warming and
our body system through the to life. Instead, our fascination climate change, deforestation,
very symbol of life itself, the is elsewhere: television, mobile destruction of our ecosystems,
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