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The Journey To Protect The Protectors
We all know that any journey is a collection of several events under continuous change. Likewise the journey of universe can also be considered as a combination of several journeys progressing without defined destination at different planets and galaxies. To reach the destination would mean an END; as no further change would take place. But life is a combination of changes and in order to survive one must keep moving!
With above view, climate change is not the unusual phenomenon and global warming is a mere coincidence. We feel more concerned as the temperature rise creates problems not only for human race, but also for all flora and fauna. Efforts to arrest change by man made actions may be seen as unnatural and hence not advisable. However, we are concerned for our survival with comforts which must get the top priority. We may like to learn the art of living in coexistence from the nature itself. Dynamic balancing of ozone layer in stratosphere could be taken as one of the best example where continuous change in ozone molecules remains important. Probably some kind of approach capable to represent balancing in consumption versus utilization and available versus remaining resources may be developed to fulfill the need of sustainable development.
There could be several school of thought, for now let us understand our basic needs and take help from related history to understand the emerging environmental problem and its solution. In order to fix challenge of Human survival, it is necessary to ensure the support system to human kind remains intact. Unless we protect the protectors (Human Support), it is not appropriate to think of prolonged existence for all species on the planet.
Human survival is based on several resources. We get these resources as a gift from Mother Nature. Our main resources being water, air, food and material that comes from the Earth. Sun accounts for necessary energy that gives us light and acts as promoter of the required actions. Perhaps seers and wise men understood human nature (of self destruction) and were aware about facts of life and thus encouraged humans to worship all available resources and treat them with sanctity.
It appears that on recognizing the human behaviour to oppose rules and change; our ancestors evolved an effective tool i.e. “Religion” to propagate the message of peaceful co-existence and treating all resources as object of worship and thus prevent misuse. No doubt that the religion factor is a powerful tool and this has been demonstrated time and again. Accordingly the ancient Gurus must have decided to term the resources responsible for human survival as GOD and this very example can be seen from the fact that the Hindus treat these life savers as God in the form of Vayu Devta (Vayu Air) , Jal Devta (Jal Water) , Dharti Mata (Dharti Mata Mother Earth) , Rivers are treated with respect as Mata (Mata - Mother). So river Ganges that spans across the country is worshiped as Ganga Maiya (Maiya Mother Ganga). Trees are worshiped and the fact they sustain us has been known to Indians for ages. Rivers, ponds, lakes and water wells are worshiped in India due to this religious binding and is socially accepted by one and all. It is not just trees, water bodies and earth but animals and birds too are placed into same category to be worshiped. Each God and Goddess is associated with an animal or bird and thus an object of worship for the masses.
Probably to protect or take utmost care of these resources, they found religion as a way to achieve maximum results with minimum efforts. At present when the population explosion has led to scarcity of resources and human values are changing all over the world, distance between countries have shortened, and the kind of education and preaching that was practiced in India years ago, no longer seems to be rewarding or effective. We need to explore the possibility to educate people by scientific methods providing reasoning to get their requirements fulfilled without compromising the needs of future generation. That is how the emergence of sustainable development can be addressed to and would be able to do the needful provided all concerned are ready to participate and act as required.
As expressed in the Aims of EnviroSpectra, the resources being limited are required to be conserved and used judiciously. Finding an acceptable alternate to the existing material is also becoming a compelling necessity in consideration of environmental and ecological reasons. It has become necessary to educate the masses about the ecology and environmental aspects, availability of resources and harmful effect of pollution due to emission and harmful discharges.
Moreover it is realized that no human wants any increase in pollution levels instead they lould like to support sustainable development. Perhaps dissemination of relevant environment related information to the stakeholders at different times and in different form is necessary so that the same could be understood and followed by majority. In our effort to create awareness among one and all, time to time, a regular feed would be provided to enable the people to understand, interact and adopt the good environmental practices. There are so many methods to improve environmental aspects; however, it shall be our endeavor to concentrate on the topics listed as objectives.
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