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Love for Mother Nature coupled with interest for her green untouched beauty was never enough for our instigation. Did we never want nature to remain that way or is it because we never believed that a clean environment is a basic need, a basic right for our children?
Recently I came across this beautiful catch line which says:
Could you imagine the price of air if it were brought to you by any other supplier?
(A question asked by God to human beings)
Needless to give an exact figure, but it’s quite obvious that the whole of world’s economy will not be able to pay for the air we breathe, if it was to be artificially created. We have always shamelessly accepted things from nature as a free good and failed to consider environment as a leased accommodation from our children. We have selfishly demoralized ourselves by defining useful resources as “waste”, when it fails to meet our self interests.
There are only very few countries who seriously consider the environmental impact of their growth plans. Environmental concerns are still considered to be trivial and economic growth and stability is being given priorities by policy makers, maybe more so in developing countries. The whole world has been successfully playing a blame game, the west blaming the east and the east blaming the west!
But according to me, the biggest barrier faced by humankind in their struggle for a green tomorrow is attitudinal; our brains have been wedged to predilections and requests beyond the supply capabilities of earth. Now at this 11th hour we have no options other than to rethink on our priorities and change our attitudes. There is no point in minting money, building beautiful homes and buying wonderful cars for our children when their basic needs of survival are at stake.
Let us consider this as the time and empower ourselves to make this industrial world more environment conscious and a cleaner place to live in.
(A question asked by God to human beings)
Needless to give an exact figure, but it’s quite obvious that the whole of world’s economy will not be able to pay for the air we breathe, if it was to be artificially created. We have always shamelessly accepted things from nature as a free good and failed to consider environment as a leased accommodation from our children. We have selfishly demoralized ourselves by defining useful resources as “waste”, when it fails to meet our self interests.
There are only very few countries who seriously consider the environmental impact of their growth plans. Environmental concerns are still considered to be trivial and economic growth and stability is being given priorities by policy makers, maybe more so in developing countries. The whole world has been successfully playing a blame game, the west blaming the east and the east blaming the west!
But according to me, the biggest barrier faced by humankind in their struggle for a green tomorrow is attitudinal; our brains have been wedged to predilections and requests beyond the supply capabilities of earth. Now at this 11th hour we have no options other than to rethink on our priorities and change our attitudes. There is no point in minting money, building beautiful homes and buying wonderful cars for our children when their basic needs of survival are at stake.
Let us consider this as the time and empower ourselves to make this industrial world more environment conscious and a cleaner place to live in.
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