It happened again..
This time in Japan.
An earthquake followed by Tsunami, which has left many people dead and homeless and many people are still missing. Tall buildings have been razed to ground, there is water everywhere, the oil refinery in the city is on fire and the nuclear plants are in a great danger. A loss of crores of rupees plus the loss of precious human life was rather uncalculated and unasked for. People are struggling to come to terms with this sudden change in their lives, where everything just vanished in a second and turned the things upside down.
Now an alert for a tsunami is also given to the neighboring countries and people are waiting and watching.. What next? or rather who next?
It is indeed sad to see innocent people caught unawares by this fury of the nature, but somewhere, I think, nature seeks balance and harmony and has it's own way to achieve it.
Over-population, depleting natural resources, global warming etc. are all man made phenomenon. Trees are mercilessly cut down and tall sky scrapers take their place. There are jungles of concrete buildings everywhere and earth is getting hotter day by day as the ozone layer is becoming thinner day by day. The snow in the artic is melting and the water levels are rising in a very alarming manner.
What are we doing to do something against all this? Nothing much. Planting trees and reducing the carbon emission is definitely in our hands, isn't it?
Why don't we take a lesson from this natural calamity and do a little bit towards preserving nature and in turn help is preserving our race? We are not above nature and we can't surpass it even though we earn a lot of money and status. We should always keep in mind that human life is ephemeral and it does not even take a millisecond to be gone forever.
So, let's wake up and do something to make this world a better place!
This time in Japan.
An earthquake followed by Tsunami, which has left many people dead and homeless and many people are still missing. Tall buildings have been razed to ground, there is water everywhere, the oil refinery in the city is on fire and the nuclear plants are in a great danger. A loss of crores of rupees plus the loss of precious human life was rather uncalculated and unasked for. People are struggling to come to terms with this sudden change in their lives, where everything just vanished in a second and turned the things upside down.
Now an alert for a tsunami is also given to the neighboring countries and people are waiting and watching.. What next? or rather who next?
It is indeed sad to see innocent people caught unawares by this fury of the nature, but somewhere, I think, nature seeks balance and harmony and has it's own way to achieve it.
Over-population, depleting natural resources, global warming etc. are all man made phenomenon. Trees are mercilessly cut down and tall sky scrapers take their place. There are jungles of concrete buildings everywhere and earth is getting hotter day by day as the ozone layer is becoming thinner day by day. The snow in the artic is melting and the water levels are rising in a very alarming manner.
What are we doing to do something against all this? Nothing much. Planting trees and reducing the carbon emission is definitely in our hands, isn't it?
Why don't we take a lesson from this natural calamity and do a little bit towards preserving nature and in turn help is preserving our race? We are not above nature and we can't surpass it even though we earn a lot of money and status. We should always keep in mind that human life is ephemeral and it does not even take a millisecond to be gone forever.
So, let's wake up and do something to make this world a better place!
As it is rightly said, nature always maintains its balance. But unfortunately most of the times the innocent suffer in this. Esp. Japan, the country rose up after the WW II like a phoenix bird. But how many tests should it pass through still? The new generation would fear about the word “nuclear”.
ReplyDeleteAfter I saw the clips on BBC I was so stirred. I told Girish I feel like doing something. But then unfortunately cant do anything. I said this and a small voice in my mind said, you want to do something only when something like this strikes. Why can’t we just help the needy thinking that we owe something to the society and we ought to give back. I always have said I want to help, but don’t know why it never gets in to actions.
"Yeh To Hona Hi Tha".
ReplyDeleteI don't agree that nature maintains its balance.Its like man is trying to ride the nature and tame it. As a reaction it fights back time to time(sequence of serial floods and droughts in most of the Indian states are prime examples).
Today's DNA says that Bangalore will see a dip of 6% in rainfall and 2% rise in temperature by 2030. I believe the way the authorities are playing, the numbers should get multiplied by 5.
We are all tech-savvy criminals committing crime with every action using computers,mobiles (major cause behind sudden disappearance of house-sparrow is last couple of years. Post a picture if you see any in close vicinity) and laundry list follows.
Been in the 26July2005 floods of Mumbai and know what harm a small plastic bag can cause.
Its the greed for more(more and more wants getting converted into needs) with limited available resources is the root cause.
The natures response is the same like someday we eat too much more than we our capacity(need) and then what we do?
WE PUKE !!!
Alarms are continuously ringing, be aware as there are lot of discussions are going.
ReplyDeleteI rem 1 thing, when I landed to Bangalore on 25th June it was cool weather here, but since last 2 years temp is continuously rising here, again alarm, please be aware.