ushma87star
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hello everybody Today we have forgotten the importance of the environment around us. 5th june being World Environment day, i'm posting an article with regards to the same. It can be an eye-opener to all of us out here to save our mother nature!!!
“The earth is being destroyed.” “There will be deserts everywhere.” These statements depict man’s arrogance – that he is destroying the earth. But, the earth is matter, and matter is indestructible. It will exist forever. Life will cease to exist. It is man who will struggle to survive on this transformed earth.
This is the thought to hold onto. The earth’s environment will no longer be conducive to support life. It is not the earth’s end that is the true horror here, but, that man through his folly and greed has somehow reached a point where his own extinction is inevitable, if changes are not brought about to protect the earth’s environment. Earth is probably the only planet that man has discovered which has climatic conditions that favour life. Man needs to appreciate this fact.
To put it simply, ‘the planet Earth supports life’. The ozone layer cuts off many of sun’s harmful radiation to maintain temperature which allowed life to be created and sustained. The water cycle, made up of forests, the oceans, the animal kingdom and the sun, supports a symbiotic relationship between all kinds of life and their habitat. The air man breathes is fine balanced and contains all the vital elements required to sustain life. To put it lightly – man is a parasite who survives by feeding on the earth’s many life forms, utilizes all its resources to satisfy his multitude needs and has chosen today to walk on a path of ungratefulness and disrespect for that very environment.
Man believes that he is powerful because he has been gifted with a very powerful brain which allowed him to harness all of earth’s resources to his advantage. Worth an applaud are mankind’s achievements; but today it seems that this very brain that man holds in such high regard is failing to see the obvious – that in his greed to conquer, possess and attain material things, he has set into motion a cycle of destruction of the earth’s environment; the end of which is man’s own extinction.
Mankind fails to see that the progress he has made, has let to a slow destruction of his own habitat and this erosion has created innumerable obstacles in the path of basic survival – obstacles that are insurmountable and irreversible by the will of any single individual. Each of us needs to comprehend the fact that to save the environment, the effort of single individual is no longer sufficient. A social pact between governments all over the world, a pact between the government and its citizens, a pact between mankind all over the world, has to be signed – that man has chosen to work towards saving our environment.
This pact will need to sacred and upheld at all costs. Man will have to give up his greed, arrogance, frivolous attitude and a perennial state of ignorance. Mankind once again is facing a threat, a war against his lower self, and hence, needs to use all its mind and heart to rise as only man knows how, and save the air we breathe, the forests that shelter us, the ozone layer that protects us, and the other forms of life on which we are dependent for food – in all, the very earth gave birth to us.
There is no denying that efforts are being made all over the world to being made all over the world to bring about this awareness. Governments of developed countries and large multinationals are funding a lot of research to find alternative fuel sources which would be less harmful, alternative ways to produce electric energy, more fuel efficient vehicles, use of biodegradable products versus plastic, designing homes that are self sufficient by harnessing solar energy for all their needs, ways of conserving water, running programmes to create awareness of not abusing the mother earth etc. But, the process is too slow. We are losing the race, and need to accelerate immediately.
What is required is to create policies which protect the environment. Vehicles to be run on less polluting fuel, banning plastic, discouraging prepackaged food, and banning the use of non-biodegradable material are just a few measures. Industries that do not adhere to the laws of properly treating industrial waste should be strictly penalized; deforestation must be minimized; tree plantation around urban development to be made compulsory; the ratio of open green spaces to development to be maintained; rationing of fuel.
Though all of it is being done, the efforts put in lack integrity and seriousness. The gravity of the situation is not addressed, the way it should be. What is required is a shift from democracy – of having a right to make a choice – to a kind of socialist autocracy, wherein the citizen has to abide by the laws as he is aware that it is not only for the state welfare, but also probably for his own survival.
Media today has grown big enough to play an active role in creating an environment where the government and the citizens can be brought together to sign a pact to save environment. A constant telecast of messages that motivate people to play their role in saving the environment could bring about a large change. Documentaries with messages like not to encourage overt food packaging, changing their water usage habits from wasteful to a more economic usage, economizing their shopping, traveling and commuting habits to ones that enable in conserving fuel, planting trees and shrubs around their homes, indulging in rain water harvesting, not using disposable plastic plates and glasses, reducing the use of plastic bags etc, could make matters much better. The list is endless and the path is one of sacrifice and change – by no means easy but very possible if man just saw the larger picture and realized his role in the whole.
The deafening Silence of extinction
“The earth is being destroyed.” “There will be deserts everywhere.” These statements depict man’s arrogance – that he is destroying the earth. But, the earth is matter, and matter is indestructible. It will exist forever. Life will cease to exist. It is man who will struggle to survive on this transformed earth.
This is the thought to hold onto. The earth’s environment will no longer be conducive to support life. It is not the earth’s end that is the true horror here, but, that man through his folly and greed has somehow reached a point where his own extinction is inevitable, if changes are not brought about to protect the earth’s environment. Earth is probably the only planet that man has discovered which has climatic conditions that favour life. Man needs to appreciate this fact.
To put it simply, ‘the planet Earth supports life’. The ozone layer cuts off many of sun’s harmful radiation to maintain temperature which allowed life to be created and sustained. The water cycle, made up of forests, the oceans, the animal kingdom and the sun, supports a symbiotic relationship between all kinds of life and their habitat. The air man breathes is fine balanced and contains all the vital elements required to sustain life. To put it lightly – man is a parasite who survives by feeding on the earth’s many life forms, utilizes all its resources to satisfy his multitude needs and has chosen today to walk on a path of ungratefulness and disrespect for that very environment.
Man believes that he is powerful because he has been gifted with a very powerful brain which allowed him to harness all of earth’s resources to his advantage. Worth an applaud are mankind’s achievements; but today it seems that this very brain that man holds in such high regard is failing to see the obvious – that in his greed to conquer, possess and attain material things, he has set into motion a cycle of destruction of the earth’s environment; the end of which is man’s own extinction.
Mankind fails to see that the progress he has made, has let to a slow destruction of his own habitat and this erosion has created innumerable obstacles in the path of basic survival – obstacles that are insurmountable and irreversible by the will of any single individual. Each of us needs to comprehend the fact that to save the environment, the effort of single individual is no longer sufficient. A social pact between governments all over the world, a pact between the government and its citizens, a pact between mankind all over the world, has to be signed – that man has chosen to work towards saving our environment.
This pact will need to sacred and upheld at all costs. Man will have to give up his greed, arrogance, frivolous attitude and a perennial state of ignorance. Mankind once again is facing a threat, a war against his lower self, and hence, needs to use all its mind and heart to rise as only man knows how, and save the air we breathe, the forests that shelter us, the ozone layer that protects us, and the other forms of life on which we are dependent for food – in all, the very earth gave birth to us.
There is no denying that efforts are being made all over the world to being made all over the world to bring about this awareness. Governments of developed countries and large multinationals are funding a lot of research to find alternative fuel sources which would be less harmful, alternative ways to produce electric energy, more fuel efficient vehicles, use of biodegradable products versus plastic, designing homes that are self sufficient by harnessing solar energy for all their needs, ways of conserving water, running programmes to create awareness of not abusing the mother earth etc. But, the process is too slow. We are losing the race, and need to accelerate immediately.
What is required is to create policies which protect the environment. Vehicles to be run on less polluting fuel, banning plastic, discouraging prepackaged food, and banning the use of non-biodegradable material are just a few measures. Industries that do not adhere to the laws of properly treating industrial waste should be strictly penalized; deforestation must be minimized; tree plantation around urban development to be made compulsory; the ratio of open green spaces to development to be maintained; rationing of fuel.
Though all of it is being done, the efforts put in lack integrity and seriousness. The gravity of the situation is not addressed, the way it should be. What is required is a shift from democracy – of having a right to make a choice – to a kind of socialist autocracy, wherein the citizen has to abide by the laws as he is aware that it is not only for the state welfare, but also probably for his own survival.
Media today has grown big enough to play an active role in creating an environment where the government and the citizens can be brought together to sign a pact to save environment. A constant telecast of messages that motivate people to play their role in saving the environment could bring about a large change. Documentaries with messages like not to encourage overt food packaging, changing their water usage habits from wasteful to a more economic usage, economizing their shopping, traveling and commuting habits to ones that enable in conserving fuel, planting trees and shrubs around their homes, indulging in rain water harvesting, not using disposable plastic plates and glasses, reducing the use of plastic bags etc, could make matters much better. The list is endless and the path is one of sacrifice and change – by no means easy but very possible if man just saw the larger picture and realized his role in the whole.