National and race hatreds foster artificial divisions of the land and seas. Wars cause an awful mess, with the land itself among the trampled victims. Saddam Hussein s destruction of Kuwait s oil wells was only the most egregious example. Such divisions hamper effective solutions, as with boundary-crossing rivers. America s polluted maquilladora border factories are another example.
Sexual immorality has an impact.
People who are absorbed in lust have little energy for causes such as the environment. Those who are dying of AIDS, and the many who attend them, are also kept occupied. Excessive greed, itself a kind of obsession, leads some people to overlook pollution, or hazardous conditions. Solutions Ancient Holy Men and Medicine Women had a close affinity with the Earth. As did Korean shamans, and Rev. Moon inherits this sensitivity.