Posted on 9/12/2001
Sir
Peter Blake
The murder of UN environmental ambassador Sir Peter Blake has
affected New
Zealanders with a sense of shock, sympathy and touches us with
not a little
fear. This death, felt most keenly by his family and friends,
is more than
a personal tragedy, it is a symptom of the dire circumstances
the waters,
forests and soils of this earth are in and the murderous response
taken by
many people to that condition.
The Amazon region is Natura Naturans, Nature with a capital
N. The deaths
of so many who have been affected by that region has now reached
over the
Pacific which Peter Blake sailed on to glory, and affected his
home
country. The out of control human impact on Nature is never
so dramatically
demonstrated as in the Amazon, something which Peter Blake was
probably
reacting to in his presence there.
We can hope that Sir Peter's death, like his life, will stir
the hearts of
millions to transcend base urges and achieve our higher nature.
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