“The earth has enough to satisfy everyone needs but not everyone greed.”
We have come to this saying many times in our life. I do agree with it, God has created this earth with reserves and natural resources which is far more than enough to fulfill everyone need but it just proves to be inadequate as soon as the greed comes into the picture. We need some food, water, sunshine and air to sustain our life but when it comes to our demand for luxury, the list grows to be of infinite length. We want more and more, our desires seems to be a BLACK HOLE which is powerful enough to engulf this entire planet. Desire to have something creeps into our brain without attracting our attention. Everyone in this world, from beggar to multimillionaires have desires to attain a state which is better than that of their current state.
People around the globe have a very wrong notion in their brain. They think that by raising the consumption of resources, they can make life of people better. In today’s world the progress of the world is measured on the basis of per capita consumption of resources and country having maximum per capita consumption always tops the list. People have covered their greedy nature with the help of blanket what we call it as PROGRESS, in order to muffle the striking word greed. People have termed satisfaction or attaining satisfaction as if the death of progress. They have found a novel way known as PROGRESS to attain their veiled greedy nature.
Do we have to choose between ECONOMY and ENVIRONMENT?
I think time has come to.
What gets us into trouble?
Is not what we don’t know.
It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.
Mark Twain.
People sure about that earth is so large that our industrial expansions and carbon emission won’t affect the Earth but recent climate changes and catastrophic natural calamities have already shown the trailer of what we all don’t to happen. Our ability to live on planet EARTH and to have a future civilization is on stake.
If a frog jumps into very hot water, it instantly jumps out of hot water in order to save its life but if frog jumps into a lukewarm water and the water is being heated, frog would die because of hot water due to slow rise in temperature if not rescued. In present context we are in the latter state, we need to be rescued.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Upton Simclair
There are lots of people who go straight from denial to despair without pausing on the intermediate step of actually doing something about the problem. Our future generation would ask questions that “What our parents were thinking and why they didn’t woke up when they had a chance ?” We have to hear that question from them now. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to cease this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.
Are you ready to change the way you live ?