{"id":3573,"date":"2015-06-05T08:50:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T08:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2015\/06\/05\/kavinien-karupudayyan-10\/"},"modified":"2017-11-07T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:56:59","slug":"kavinien-karupudayyan-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/kavinien-karupudayyan-10\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We borrow the Earth from our Children\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Journ\u00e9e Internationale de l\u2019environnement 2015<\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/h6>\n<p>Les \u00e9cologistes tirent la sonnette d\u2019alarme depuis de longues ann\u00e9es quant au danger imminent du r\u00e9chauffement climatique et de ses cons\u00e9quences sur notre plan\u00e8te.<\/p>\n<p>Pendant ce temps, nous continuons \u00e0 construire ici et l\u00e0 en faisant fi de notre environnement et des \u00e9cosyst\u00e8mes qui nous entourent, ce qui me fait penser \u00e0 ce que Monsieur Soopaya Poinen, ancien formateur d\u2019enseignants de langue tamoule m\u2019a dit, lors de notre rencontre il y a un mois, \u00e0 propos de la mani\u00e8re dont nos anc\u00eatres respectaient les arbres et la nature en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.<\/p>\n<p>Autrefois, il y avait des <em>maray<\/em> (petite structure o\u00f9 l\u2019on installait les divinit\u00e9s). Souvent, il y avait un grand arbre sous lequel se trouvait le maray. Nos anc\u00eatres allumaient une petite lampe pour v\u00e9n\u00e9rer l\u2019arbre et pour le remercier pour l\u2019oxyg\u00e8ne qu\u2019il nous donne.<\/p>\n<p>Cette pratique remonte \u00e0 l\u2019antiquit\u00e9 o\u00f9 les Tamouls v\u00e9n\u00e9raient la nature et les arbres, et ils mettaient en r\u00e9serve des terres sanctifi\u00e9es comme geste propitiatoire \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard des esprits des arbres. Ces bois sacr\u00e9s subsistent encore aujourd\u2019hui m\u00eame si les croyances qui assuraient leur protection sont observ\u00e9es moins assid\u00fbment que dans le pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Dans un excellent article sur la spiritualit\u00e9 et l\u2019\u00e9cologie des bois sacr\u00e9s au Tamil Nadu, les auteurs PS Swamy, M. Kumar et S.M Sundarapandian nous rappellent que la v\u00e9n\u00e9ration de l\u2019arbre et de la nature \u00e9tait une vieille tradition en Inde et toutes les formes de vie \u00e9taient consid\u00e9r\u00e9es comme sacr\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Ceci dit, nous avons \u00e9videmment besoin de construire maisons et b\u00e2timents pour ne mentionner que ceux-l\u00e0, vu le nombre grandissant de la population humaine. (Les experts estiment que notre population s\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8vera \u00e0 dix milliards en 2050). Ce qu\u2019il faut encore une fois, c\u2019est la sensibilisation des gens et leur faire comprendre ce besoin de respecter la nature. Il faudra que nous vivions en harmonie avec la nature comme l\u2019ont fait nos anc\u00eatres dans le temps.<\/p>\n<p>Si nous persistons \u00e0 d\u00e9fier la nature, peut-\u00eatre que nous ne paierons pas les cons\u00e9quences nous-m\u00eames, du moins pas maintenant. Mais nos enfants, eux, devront y faire face dans un futur pas tr\u00e8s lointain. Apr\u00e8s tout, &#8220;We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThe best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>&#8212; Anne Frank, \u2018The Diary of a Young Girl\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>* Published in print edition on 5 June \u00a02015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journ\u00e9e Internationale de l\u2019environnement 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4385],"tags":[7084,2330,7085],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-environment","tag-journee-internationale-de-lenvironnement-2015","tag-kavinien-karupudayyan","tag-soopaya-poinen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-VD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}