Country
Without Vision
Our
country is blessed with natural beauty.
To
begin with it is not land locked but L.T.T.E wanted artificial
borders to administer with Indian hegemony and secret service, RAW
creating and helping it.
Currently
under the aegis of lunatic fringes of sand stormed countries wanted
it segregated and become political and religious desert. There are no
democracies in these sand stormed countries with arcane laws, an
antitheses common law.
We
have four or five religions, none of them I call as great, since they
are practiced in negative sense.
All
of them have few positive but many negative social ingredients and we
only extract negative ingredients including hate to practice.
Some
counties in Asia with sand storm and no rain for over 10 years, the
inhabitants are running away from advancing desert looking pastures
for domesticated animals.
We
have dry seasons but no arid zones.
We
are near the equator with sunshine and rain year round.
In
spite of all these blessings, gradually the rain is failing and
patches of arid lands are forming affecting our majestic elephants.
China
is the only country which has vigorous policy against desertification
of land.
This
is all due to felling of trees and commercially non viable
agriculture (mono-culture-rice is one of them) policy started by C.P.
De Silva and vigorously exploited in the last 10 years by the
previous regime (especially cutting trees for timber without a
replanting schedule).
Our
biodiversity and forests are disappearing fast, thanks to tea
industry and recently banana growing for Americans.
Banana
and many of the exotic plants (cashew, pomegranate and soursop,
included) were brought in by European invaders.
Banana
plant is the most invasive plant and one cannot even grow another
banana plant in a place where soil resources are exhausted in one or
two seasons.
Then
we add excess of poisonous fertilizer with all the heavy metals
percolating into the rivers and lakes.
One
cannot find even Guppy fish in Kandy (this is due to the detergents
escaping from the washing machines of domestic use) water paddles
collected in the city soon after heavy rain.
The
detergents poison gills of fish and they suffocate in ten minutes.
Our
only safety valve to control mosquito menace is decimated.
Kunu
Ela rightly named by me as Condom Ela, one can see underwear and
condoms (in addition to diesel) floating and they get trapped in the
water intake of Kandy city purification plant.
All
these we call progressive steps.
What
we lack is politicians who could mange problems in a cohesive manner.
Can
the “Third Force” take these problems including corruption?
That
is the million dollar question?
