Today, our
Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi inaugurated a two day conference on
environmental issues in Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi and during his speech there, he
certainly gave an outright message to the whole world that rather than finding
the problems with the system, we should rather focus on solving the ones which
exist. “That is because the world is looking at peripheral issues. I
have always said the root of the problem lies in changing our lifestyles, in
moving away from consumerism. A higher degree of consumerism brings with it
greater exploitation of nature. Till we focus on our lifestyles, we will not be
able to deal with the problem effectively, despite our best efforts”, Mr. Modi added.
Actually
the problem that has devastated the whole of mother earth is of attitude of
people regarding the situation that we are facing. If we look on to the past
statistics (of ancient India), then we would certainly observe that the
problems which we are facing today like global warming, ozone layer depletion
etc. never ever existed at that time. There are basically two reasons behind
all the notorious transformation through which mother earth has undergone
during past 100 years or so.
The
first and foremost reason is of attitude. Though most of the activist groups do
quote that people are not aware of the situation or about the current condition
of but actually the problem lies in attitude, because even those who are well
aware of the situation still make no efforts in order to assist mother earth
out of the trouble in which it is in and that too just due to we people. If we
look on the statistics around the world then disappointingly only 1% of Chinese
people today breathe air that is considered “good” by the standards of European
Union and from this figure we can surely infer the condition of the world
currently. Previously we never encountered such problems because of the
attitude only. Our forefathers considered mother earth as even more crucial
than any other thing, even Gods and hence they worshipped earth more than
anything thereby things like degradation of soil and deforestation but today
the attitude of people is just nasty and they consider earth as nothing except
something that must be destroyed and nothing else must be done to it and hence
today humanity stands on the verge of biggest disaster that is day by day
becoming inevitable.
The
next thing is of technology. Today advancement and technology are the trademark
of this century and flagship of mankind, but somebody has said it correctly
that nothing is constant except change. Though we have surely changed, but
change has not been complete. We changed things but we never found a substitute
to them. We changed ourselves in terms of technology but never thought about
environment and how to upgrade it too. We changed but not for good or you can
say it has been a suicidal change and surely we need to change, change not for
change’s sake but change to endure.
Today
we stand on the verge of the greatest disaster the whole humanity has ever seen
and hence if we can’t change today then we can’t do it any other time. So just
digest this inconvenient truth that now is the time to undergo overhauling.
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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