The whole world has become familiar with the incredibly difficult rescue action of the 12 football boys and their coach in the cave.
The Thailand cave is so narrow and cramped in many places and so full of water when it’s rainy season like now, that without the help of the Thai authorities, volunteers and international specialists, – they would never get out of it again.
The boys trapped in the cave in Thailand. (Thai off press. Aftenposten.no)
Thailand, – a country of smile, determination and spirituality.
Thailand is a country famous for having people with a lot of smile, dignity and spirituality. It is also a modern country in many ways, not least on the medical field. The story of the football team caught in the narrow cave, is drawn here, as an amazing example of human cooperation of the best kind.
The Thai Flag here with Royal Emblema.
Contributions as well as from local, national, and international rescuing staffs, even Buddhist monks and press, have joined their forces in CHIANG RAI, north of THAILAND.
CHIANG RAI, north of THAILAND. (photo:WGHP)
There is something strongly symbolic about the cave or grotto as a concept. It holds a long history of associations.
Cave paintings from Lascaux, France. (from Radio Weblog)
In prehistoric times we survived by searching shelter in caves and grottos, as they are called in Europe. Early people even lived in many of them. The 30,000-year-old cave paintings in Lascaux in France and Altamira in Spain testify this.
Ox painting in the cave of Altamira,Spain, (Ancient History encyclopedia)
Much later, about 380 B.C, the philosopher Plato wrote his famous cave parable in his book “The State”.
Illustration of the Plato parable of the cave where the prisoner’s of the cave are sitting under the person. (Wikipedia.)
Caught in a cave on a global scale.
We humans are globally also caught in a cave where habits, lifestyle, politics, trade, money flow and capitalism keep us in there, while the water constantly rises.
Climate crisis. (From Global Reference.net)
Soon it will be hopeless to come out, if not everyone cooperates. To get us out before we drown, collaboration must both be local and national. But to find the best solutions of an international problem, we need global efforts as well, reminding ourselves that we have managed very well to work globally with trade cooperation for over thousand years. There have been no limits to it, until recently.
And for the present, we need free flow of problem solvers, specialists, organizers, common people of all ages, and politicians. People with iron strength that are willing to make every effort to get us out of the cave before it’s too late.
Very difficult rescue operation.(from Aftenposten)
Misjudging the danger
The football team of 12 boys with their coach, they misjudged how dangerous the cave was. They found it seemed so interesting and exciting. When they finally realized they were locked in, it was too late to get out of it by themselves. They were totally in need of help from the outside.
“Here we are!Help us!” This could have been the 12 boys and heir coach’s crying out for assistance. The painting of hands, however, are made by prehistoric humans in the Lascaux cave in France.(from Information)
Fortunately they functioned as a wonderful team, also inside the cave in captivity. And their coach must be a very special young Thai! He managed to keep up their spirits and strengthen their psychology from collapsing, when all seemed dark, and know one new if they still were alive, let alone could be rescued. The team itself and their rescuers ought to be our models for cooperation, the same as their attitude: Don’t panic, keep calm, and take every necessary precaution when the operation is carried through!
Eventually rescued and saved and treated in a very good Thai hospital.(abcnews.go.com)
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and their experts on global environment, have calculated the risk of escalating irreversible environmental crisis. They have seriously determined how dangerous we live, if we just continue to waste the natural resources as before.
We now know that the panel of research experts all over the world, are having the solution to our captivity in the cave of our habit of consumption. Let’s give them a chance to save us. Then you and I must only support politicians and international state leaders that allow companies that take climate responsibility to control the world economy. In the next few years, we will know whether we still can paint people and animal motifs on our modern cave walls, or if it’s more appropriate to paint the devil on the wall!
Politicians and state leaders can help saving us from irreversible global climate change. If they and their voters realize that we are already like captives in a dangerous cave. (here The King of Spain and Queen, with other notabilities in the Altamira cave. (El Pais)
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