Millions of people coexist in urban centers. This is a modern phenomenon, especially in the developing countries. It is the result, to a certain extent, of the exodus of rural populations to the cities as the unemployed, in search of economic progress and a higher standard of living, try to open a path in the concrete jungle of skyscrapers. These new city-dwellers enter, barehanded, into a work force led by business enterprises. They usually don't find the happiness and stability they dreamed of, but they can't go back either.
Yet, these very business enterprises are technologically equipped to open roads and penetrate forests—to extract timber, medicinal plants, and minerals desirable in industry—as in the case of the Amazon region. The manufacturing plants that are being established tend to damage the environment, however, unless they are intelligently regulated. And as the concrete jungles in the cities keep growing, the lush rain forest continues to be depleted. The delicate ecological balance becomes even more fragile, leaving forest and pasture areas more and more susceptible to natural disasters, including devastating fires.
Love, a word that means God, is the supreme force that maintains His universe in harmony.
