"A hurricane of conflicting interests, exploitation of resources, and violence has been developing in our ocean in the past decades, and after it has gained momentum in the past two to three years, it culminated in a pandemic, a ghastly war in Europe, economic crisis, cultural conflicts, adding to the already-existing global red flags. And here we stand, at a crossroads when we must decide, whether we yield to such hurricanes or find ways to save our coasts and prevent those surges from bulging inland. Many, if not all, select the second option. Whilst we cannot stop those dangerous hurricanes from evolving into storm surges, we can monitor our horizons, above and below water, land elevations, water depths, and barriers, and we can at least prevent damages from hitting us, the collective, very hard.
Water depths are a perfect analogy to understand the hidden factors governing our world. Our families and educational institutions are never isolated from the world. For this reason, digging deep into our practices, habits, and fixed systems sheds light on the matters that lurk under the heavy weight and darkness of the ocean waters. Only digging deep enables us to become aware of those threats. Land elevations are a perfect analogy to understand the dimensions to what issues may reach. Again, being part of this world, families and educational institutions can push matters upwards, giving them more height, and consequently, visibility and false awe. Barriers are organic representations of conditions, circumstances, and occurrences, that ferociously stand in our way, reminding us of our vulnerabilities and fragility.
Here comes the urgency to collectively think at granular levels of core issues, those of social, economic, environmental, and political impact..."
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