THE PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE

For three years the owner of the Fig tree has waited. For three years he longed for one thing, fruit from his tree. Three years pass and there were none. So he orders his gardener to chop it down. Waste of good soil. His gardener pleads, "Give it another year. I will dig around it and put manure." Give it another year.

We call them people with "green thumbs." People who love plants. People who sing and talk to them like they were people. People like the gardener who pleads, "Give it another year." People who know that some Fig trees take up to six years to bear fruit. People who celebrate the inter-connectedness of all life. People who believe in second chances for everyone and everything. People who know the magic properties of manure.

Then there are people who treat everyone and everything as property, as commodity, as disposable. And every single day they
acquire square kilometers of prime agricultural land, ancestral domain, and public lands for profit. There's a term for this insatiable greed: development aggression.

And they chop down everything and everyone blocking their way. Not just Fig trees.

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*image from "what we can learn from the parable of the fig tree" available online at crosswalk.