Environmentalism

They are the sounds of destruction – the sounds that arise from the construction of infrastructure that bring about industrialisation or modernisation. Construction entail destruction. They are the sounds of destruction.

They are not pleasant – the screeching of diamond blades cutting through stones, the rumblings of the excavators that dig up the stones from the mountains, the stacking and welding of I-beams one on top of another... They are in reaction or opposition to the changing of things that are not meant to be changed in an instant. The rocks are used to being weathered over time and not cut into precise dimensions in an instant. Iron ores are used to being embedded intricately into earth and not intricately piled upon each other above or into earth. That is why they scream and cry. They are sounds of the minerals and matters that are forced upon each other. The coarse cough of the engines powering the bulldozers is the sound of resistance against compelled destruction.

*

Technology is a natural progression and part of the environment. There are debates about modernisation and technology being the enemy of the great natural environment. They are futile. The roads, the deforestation, the overgrazed fields, the air pollution and the magnificent internet are all extensions of what was meant to be. Over population, income disparity, morals, and the moral drought are all the continuation of natural progression. Modernisation will never cease as it never had. Everything is part of the natural world.

The sounds of events that are not yet imagined need not be invented by the natural environment. They are only waiting to be discovered. They will be more pleasant or unpleasant than when the minerals and matters scream and cry. There is no right or wrong. They will be accustomed to. It is like how the sounds of wolves' howls, of the hacking of flesh, and of babies' cries were accustomed to.