MY home is surrounded by views of hills. I was lucky to have such surroundings.
When friends came to visit, they would admire and appreciate the nature surrounding my home.
When I visit the homes of others or while on travel, I used to think how lucky I was when I viewed surroundings affected by development, where the atmosphere was hot and the air was foul and depleted of oxygen.
Recently, one of the hills in my surroundings was affected and left barren.
Nobody could do anything, because, in the name of development, such things happen everywhere.
Nowadays, the atmosphere surrounding my home area has become hot, and when the wind blows, it is stronger than before.
MY home is surrounded by views of hills. I was lucky to have such surroundings.
When friends came to visit, they would admire and appreciate the nature surrounding my home.
When I visit the homes of others or while on travel, I used to think how lucky I was when I viewed surroundings affected by development, where the atmosphere was hot and the air was foul and depleted of oxygen.
Recently, one of the hills in my surroundings was affected and left barren.
Nobody could do anything, because, in the name of development, such things happen everywhere.
Nowadays, the atmosphere surrounding my home area has become hot, and when the wind blows, it is stronger than before.
The creator blessed the planet with vegetation for our survival, but mankind is doing the opposite, against the desire of the creator. Where are we leading the world in the name of economic development?
A disastrous consequence is waiting for mankind, which may be too late for reversal, though many may claim otherwise.
This brings me to an interview with Martin Luther King Jr, who was once asked what he would do if he was going to die the next day.
His reply was: “I would plant a tree.”
The tree is a symbol of life. One generation plants the tree, under whose cool shade another generation takes its ease. Trees are part of nature and a source of nourishment.
Nature, however, is more than trees.
The universe houses the sun, the moon and the stars, the seas, the lakes, streams and waterfalls, the mountains and the hills, the land we live in, the air we breathe, the wildlife in our midst as well as the flora and fauna that make us live and continue to live.
To love life and preserve nature is similar to preserving our lives and that of the future generation.
Unfortunately, people, on the pretext of development, have changed the environment more quickly
than we know how to change ourselves.
Nature does not need our help to be beautiful. It is we who need nature’s help.
Like the creator does not need our help, we need the creator for our guidance, assistance and protection. Ironically, the reverse or opposite is the rule of the day.
Whatever befalls the earth, befalls mankind.
We need to protect nature for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born as well as those who cannot speak: flora and fauna, birds, animals, fish, trees and atoms in the air.
Our survival as a human species depends on our caring, sharing, protecting and working together,
failing which, the whole Earth will be destroyed.
“The Earth is but one country, and mankind, its citizen.”
Let us not waste our opportunity in a blame game.
The biology and chemistry behind a natural ecology takes thousands of years to evolve, but in a few weeks, people have destroyed what God wrought by lying to the public.
I remember the joke where a politician tells a prostitute that he will never lie.
In return, the prostitute tells the politician that she is a virgin.
K.T. MARAN,
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