All life on earth revolves in the vicious circle of multiplying, using and then degenerating . This can be seen in all plants, animals and humans . They all follow a life cycle and then dissipate . Throughout this tenure you see the plants and the animals give back a considerable portion of resources to mother earth. It is us human beings who tend to take and forget about returning to the rightful owner, be it a book or the immense resources that we borrow from our planet.
There are a few scattered voices reminding us of our duties which tend to rise and fall in our sensibilities, often like a disturbing background cacophony . And then there are the movies like 2012 / avatar , which are given rave reviews - are viewed by all and sundry who tend to ignore the underlying message of impending doom if we fail to take the necessary steps immediately.
The need of the hour is to begin taking care of our limited resources now ! Stop to think for a while before junking and misusing / overkilling the luxurious products which are deemed necessities now . The current era of consumerism will soon lead to the consumers being consumed themselves . The world has indeed become a more comfortable place to live but has it also changed for the better ? In our unending quests for more comfort there have been innumerable sacrifices made on account of 'development '. The effect of all this has started showing on our surroundings , our environment .Climatic changes , water scarcities, new diseases these are but a few rewards for a 'developed society'.
Its high time that all of us wake up to the eminent disasters , that can come calling , to destroy our earth . Some very simple and oft repeated steps can help us redeem the damage -
We need more green cover, less carbon emitting monsters , walk more - drive less , shun plastic, use paper sparingly, recycle, eat less meat and above all educate our young ones so that they know what is to be done for a future . The last step is the most important as we have heard the other steps so often that now it is just a repetitive boring exercise , meaningless to us but remember - its not for us that we need to do this , our lives have been and will be served well enough but WHAT OF THE FUTURE ???
