Week -11

The Earth as human settlement has ways of binding various peoples into one. What has New Orleans in common with Amsterdam? Both are below the sea level. New Orleans is 8’-0” below the sea. Each year it sinks by one inch or so. The recent catastrophe the Hurricane Katrina inflicted on its inhabitants brought home the fact how essential co-operation between nations are. The levees did not stand the fury of elements and so Dutch experts in water management were called in for advice.
In a manner of speaking there is no part of the earth that can be sustained by its inhabitants by their own level of knowledge. They for all their experience are incomplete. (Nature doesn’t keep all eggs in the same basket. It is a truism applicable to experience of species.) Shared experience of mankind has its peculiar thrusts and such peaks allow expertise in different areas scattered all along: the level of expertise the Netherlands can offer is different from what New Orleans has acquired. Hence a co-operative effort would always prove to be beneficial for all.
benny