hope

YEAR OF DESTRUCTION AND DISASTER

Thai Red Shirt anti-government protesters

32 miners who survived for 69 days underground after an accident at the San Jose copper-gold mine

A helicopter crash killed nine American troops from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan.

A US army soldier fighting with Taliban in Afghanistan.

A Palestinian youth is arrested by Israeli soldiers for throwing stones.

Blast in karachi Pakistan

Explosion that rocked the holy town of Varanasi on the bank of the river Ganga.

WE CAN CONTROL ALL MAN MADE DISASTERS

CHILE EARTHQUAKE

CHINA EARTHQUAKE

GUATEMALA SINKHOLE

HAITI EARTHQUAKE

ICELAND VOLCANO

MACHU PICCHU LANDSLIDE

NASHVILLE FLOODS

PAKISTAN FLOODS

RUSSIA WILDFIRES

PERTH‘S DELUGE OF RAIN CAUSED LANDSLIDE

INDONESIA — MT. MERAPI WROUGHT DEVASTATION IN KINAHREJO VILLAGE

TSUNAMI-STRIKES -INDONESIA

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.Mahatma Gandhi

We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.

Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.

This is a beautiful planet and not at all fragile. Earth can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms, and ice ages. But this canny, intelligent, prolific, and extremely self-centered human creature had proven himself capable of more destruction of life than Mother Nature herself.... We've got to be stopped. ~Michael L. Fischer,

WE STILL HAVE HOPE.CREATED BYRAJIV VERMA