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By Julian Sudre
I have wistfully wondered or even thought how on earth humanity could have decided to chop its own very hand off, well unwittingly.
Once upon a time when copious amounts of green expanse slathered Mother Earth, its denizen started taking for granted the crops and lands that proffered to their hearts’ content.
Luscious riches embellished fields and garlanded foothills; copses and groves were bedizened with age-old oak trees whence chirpy birds flitting about in the most remarkable rhythmic beauty. But was the music about to stop or to be faced?
Suddenly the roaring engine of Capitalist economies and the headwinds of free-trades tumultuously made a sally and the eroding result is spreading menacingly on the face of the earth.
Hence the confrontation of human-generated greediness against the humble offerings of our Green goddess slowly but surely heralds the beginning of our retribution.
Although, we have been rallying against non-ecological ideas, picketing at airports and supporting eco-friendly organisations and charities but as little as it may help, those are widow’s mite in the basket of Mother Nature. The fundamental problem lies in the ethical way people act upon their values and priorities. And because in a global economy, business values and freedom of choice, and the continuous evolution of technology systematically override any frank attempt at modifying our current comforts, people will, despite warnings, be treading down the claggy path of deterioration. Our greed has got out of hand, and the protection of the Earth still plays second fiddle, only due to a shift in antropocentric worldview of the here and now.
Sadly, a template for environmental sustainbility, global peace only belongs to the realm of the fantasy. We have had a tangible repertoire of green schemes but voracious, blood-hungry corporate activity intently puts its sticky finger in every pie. It has almost become beyond our control as if humanity had turned into a vampire that necessitates material values and physical enrichment and the Earth has been reduced to bare "resources".
Hence, we've become stuck into a catastrophic spiral that absorbs relentlessly our energies, drains our avarice to pump it back with a vengence into our mercenary mindset. The scenario is sombre with shades of ill-omens to come but yet not set in stone.
Ghandy believed that humanity should see itself as located in the wider cosmos, related to its other members as equal tenants. He intuitively knew that Nature should never be reduced to "environments" as it would ultimately lead to an industrialism that would "strip the word bare like locusts".
Much of our current predicament could have been averted today if humanity had paid heed to Gandhi's words, that is being interested in the present not in the future.
I, for one, think if the ship we are on today is rocked about then lists and suddenly lurched mournfully into the deep waters of our own pshyche, it's without question a law of cause and effect. The solution is written on the wall, our focus should be promptly shifted to the essence of life and the current issue at hand not the money-spinning vandalism sheme that has spun out of capitalism. Our resources should be rationed, apportioned with strict adherence.
Respect to Nature and altruism need more attention, as we all shall meditate over our origins and goals before the time is up. Soon the Noe's arch will loom over before long, but then it'll be too late.
