The Environment : Are we losing it!?

This is one of the topics that have always been debated about and i have very strong concerns about it . Therefore i would like to start this topic off by a poem written by myself

The Environment "Man"handled :
Along the valley lies this beautiful place .

.full of natural beauty and grace

birds twitter on the barks of the tree the sun shines cloud free

animals roaming about their land

God made this earth with his beautiful hands

but wait he made someone that was more powerful than them

someone that could use the tree from the bark to the stem

someone who could rule

someone who could make stone turn to fuel

oh !! what was happening here

the mother earth was disappointed and full of fear

all of her creations were near extinction

and people were getting notorious with distinction

man wanted everything his

so he decided to hurt nature like this

but as the saying goes ..what u sow so shall u reapin

a few years time every man would be in his eternal sleep ..

Well that is what is going to happen in a few years. ! Well its not only our country that is facing this problem of environmental pollution but i must stress on the point that as five fingers make a fist similarly all the countries making together and acting right now could make a tremendous difference in our lives , say after a few decades . Well we read in the newspapers daily that some or the other glacier has melted or some or the other sea has gone dry . Famines , Floods. Well what is happening here we think and this thought is only for a second because after that the thought would come when we experience it . Well most of the Nashikites have got the experience of feeling the crunch of environmental problems . The power cuts which occur not only here but different parts of the states are giving people a hard time . Well i must say there are lot of reasons behind this problem but the main problem that the country might be facing would be poverty . Well nothing can be done to eradicate it completely in a short span of time and as the saying goes ' Rome was not built in a day' , we should also give the governers more time . Well the main thing about poverty is that people do not know about the environment until they are educated , and persons living in poverty cannot think of education as he has to fulfill the 3 basic needs of his family . So all he can do is to make his children work so that they can make a little sum of money ! ! . On opposite to this i must surely like to mention the advanced countries in the world ,where there is litte povertry . I must say in such advanced countries , scientists conducting experiments for making their countries proud and trying to make a name for themselves have just completely destroyed the environment . With so much of knowledge , they are doing no good to the environment by performing scientific experiments on the environment !

Well , agreed that there is always a need for development as man is a thinking animal and thinking takes him to those regions which are unexplored ! Well even if thinks a little about the environment i think that would give us a few more decades to live !

I must also make the point about surviving in the world after a few decades . With oxygen masks and alternative methods to breath , it would be hard to imagine that there used to be something called as trees a few decades back . Imagine such absurd things are surely not out of question.There are lot of things that are left to be answered! Environmentalists are also out of ideas on how to curb this kind of usage of resources so mercillesly by man!

It is like if you want a house here and if there are a few trees here , there would be no harm to clear the tree and that person would be happy what a great house he has ! But one thing he doesnt know is that the number of trees he has cut is a step in is own coffin !

people want houses that have the shade of the trees the quiteness of the villages and no pollution for that matter !! There is nothing that is left here now ! Whatever is left is for this generation to survive ! Its a matter of thought that requires a lot of thinking and planning !

Optimism is not a bad thing,but thinking that everything would be all right in the coming decades is just going to prove fatal to us !!

The conclusion : Are we losing the plot ?

I say we have already lost it ! With no entrepreuners coming forward to invest in ideas of a green future , the future seems dark with no light ! ( i literally mean no light because there would be no electricity) . The tunnel is dark with no end, the only thing that can save us now is the timely use of all the resources and proper management !

because if this continues , we may not be able to continue in the coming decades ,

Ajay Bhat