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HEALTH & WELLNESS

make us turn our backs on the
very source of life on earth.
We have reduced earth to a
money making machine which
dispenses whatever we want
at the push of a button, without
paying attention to the fact that
our earth is a huge living and
breathing life venting machine
and when pushed to the brink
of danger, will recycle itself and
us included.

The foolishness of taking for Let me bring your attention to something. The air we breathe is not
granted the breath of God just oxygen as we called it in science; it is the natural symbol of
Sometimes I think that we hu- the breath of God. It is the reality of as it is in heaven, so it is here
mans are way more stupid than on earth. The breath of God keeps all things alive on earth and in
we give ourselves credit for. heaven. Trees, animals, birds of the air, things in the waters all un-
You read right. World leaders derstand this reality… the only exception is man, who was made in
like to gather at UN meetings the image of God. And that too is one of our many foolishnesses.
telling tales of a never ending
story of how climate change is We must go back to taking care of the earth again. For if we plant
destroying the world and the poison in our farms and call it modern agriculture, we certainly
environment, but won't tell their will reap death. If we pollute our air with poison, we will reap the
capitalist businessmen to stop very reward for it. That the air became cleaner globally during this
the unhealthy practices that put season of lockdown shows you where the problem has been. It has
the environment in danger. But been with man and his unhealthy activities. We must act now in de-
the question remains, is it really fense of the air and just maybe we will live longer on this beautiful
the issue of climate change or planet we call home.
the issue of the irresponsible
humans living on planet earth?
I think the latter is the case. We
are our own problem and not
the environment. For example,
a government in Afrika com-
About the author
plains about its citizens dying
of cancer and diseases that
Anselm Adodo is a catholic priest and di-
are connected to wrong diets rector of one of Africa’s largest phytomed-
and genetically altered foods, icine company, called paxherbals, and Di-
and comes up with the advice rector of Pax Centre for Integral Research
that people should stop eating
and Development. His most recent books
processed foods. But I am like,
include ‘The Idea of the Communiversity’
who gave the permission that (Beacon academic, 2019), and ‘Healing
allowed the GMO seedlings Plants of Nigeria’ (Routledge, 2020).
from Monsanto that are creating Anselm is a visiting lecturer at Nigeria’s
the lifeless foods that Afrikans
premier University of Ibadan, Nigeria, a
are eating? Who gave license
Fellow of the Nigeria society of Botanists
to the grocery stores and the and an adjunct research fellow of Nigeria
fast-food restaurants that are Institute of medical Research.
selling death to people instead
of life? The very same govern-
ments which are blinded by
taxes, levies, licenses that such
importations and sales bring.

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