Sri Lanka is less an agricultural country and more an agro-cultural society. Our entire set of socio-interactive mechanisms, rituals, lives, livelihoods, engineering works and methods of governance were driven by an agrarian core. This gave rise to a strong and resilient society that has now been impoverished and driven towards economical, social and moral bankruptcy by development aggression and market economies.
The trick is to understand what is truly happening. People are being incessantly bombarded by wave after wave of media blitzing to ensure that they subscribe to the most demeaned and worst possible lifestyles (from chemicalized foods to unhealthy recreational activities to ill-conditioned living and work environments - the list is endless) not becuase they want to but because they cannot escape it. The Greens, understanding the frightening consequences of this slide to doom (from rising mortality rates, large swaths of the populace either in ill-health or sick with long-term illnesses, poverty, economic instability etc.) has, from its inception, countered this threat by encouraging people back to the wholesome practices that existed earlier on and which made sure that they lived happy and contributory lives. |
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Our focus has always been to ensure that national levels of consciousness were raised as to the true realities on the ground and get people to plant their feet firmly on the ground by using that very ground in ways that reward them and the earth itself. Over the years, we campaigned tirelessly for this goal and now, we are using our grass-roots strength to knock some sense into our citizenry - not only through creating awareness but also through showing, by example, the positive effects of holistic agricultural practice. |
