I mean what is with us humans, it seems we
have forgotten the old adage from earth thou hath cometh and into earth thou
shall lie.
Mans apathy with nature has only increased with
time. While on one hand we are breaching the unknown, understanding the
mysteries of nature, and adding a 4th even a 5th dimension to our world, on the
other hand our actions are only being disrespectful towards nature.
We are increasing the economic prosperity at
the cost of social. Exhausting natural resources, usurping billions of barrels
of oil everyday, mining for coal, while emptying all sorts of pollutants and
toxic waste into the seas and rivers.
Most of the unrest in the world today is over
capturing majority of the rapidly exhausting natural resources. While the PIGS* economies are battling with a
political and economical instability, there is a civil unrest brewing in
majority of the African countries, and mind you these countries are very rich
in natural resources.
The erstwhile growth drivers, the developing
economies are already slowing down; yet are the major contributors to the
increasing carbon footprints.
Seriously where and when do we stop? We cannot
call ourselves an evolved and intelligent species at the cost of degrading the
nature. Its high time we realise this before nature tallies its balance sheet.
Now why am I writing this so early in the day,
well while driving to work on a dug up road, I saw they had uprooted a tree,
that has been a part of my neighbourhoods life for the past two decades, to
increase the width of the road.
Makes me think is it not time for the
governments to put social benefits before economical benefits, or do we still
continue to play to the (voters) gallery?
*Portugal,
Italy, Greece, Spain
