Author: Cozmin Gușă
The images of the disaster in Turkey and Syria leave you speechless with sadness, and the figures of the civilian death toll cannot even be processed by our brains. Under the strong emotion of yesterday, the international community mobilized for emergency aid, we have a huge number of citizens of the planet who gave public messages of solidarity and compassion, offered their individual help, and countries like Israel, at variance or belligerent with Turkey or Syria, acted operatively to help. There was great sadness and compassion at all levels for such a tragedy, but also a huge loss, people realizing that no matter how technologically advanced we think we are, we cannot fight back when nature unleashes such level, devastating type.
I write today under the reign of sadness, but doubled by the revolt generated by the information that qualified scientists have warned in advance of what was going to happen in the earthquake zone, and not once, but dozens of times in recent years. Turks, Dutch or other nationalities, people who know and study the Physics of the Earth, were ignored when they called and demonstrated the urgent need for the relocation of the citizens who lived in the area affected by this earthquake, with potential for cataclysm. At best their warning was treated as sensational news, but there were enough interested officials to treat the scientists as conspiratorial. The common people, an amorphous mass that was tamed in a programmed way, did not react either, being convinced that those who take care of them based on the fact that they are paid from their taxes, would act if it were a real and imminent danger. It is not so since long ago, and not only in Turkey and Syria, led by autocratic regimes concerned with the perpetuation of power or with wars of state survival, cinically, hypocritically and perversely instigated by the hegemons of the contemporary world, but it is similarly happening in the western world that calls itself civilized precisely on the basis of a presumed social contract, which established the duty of care of the elected to the voters, a contract that we already know is no longer respected. Only the milder nature in our part of the world has so far spared us from cataclysms like the one in Turkey-Syria, although the survivors of the 1977 earthquake in Romania or those of the hurricanes in New Orleans can testify to the contrary.
Greed, cynicism, doubled by the stupidity of those in charge, make us today that, despite the huge advances in science and technology, due to human intelligence (!), we cannot act preventively even in the case of events that are predicted to be devastating for people , whether we are talking about the recent earthquake or whether we are talking about the war in Ukraine. If we also had televised images of the carnage in the Ukrainian territories, it is clear that a global wave of compassion and solidarity could stop the war and quickly generate peace negotiations. But these images are not offered to the public and, similarly to the discrediting of the scientists who warned about the earthquake in Turkey-Syria, it is also used in the case of geopoliticians who insist on advertising the mega-destructive potential for humanity of the NATO-Russia confrontation on Ukrainian territory. What can we hope for? Perhaps only to the fact that at least based on the instinct of conservation, that the victory of reason cannot yet be talked about, valuable scientists, with humanitarian beginnings, are listened to and allowed to express themselves freely on the potential real dangers (and not invented on the basis of the strategies of the potentates!) that threaten the planet.
May God rest the dead and ease the suffering of their families!
