When I think about how the world has turned out to be today and how it will be in the future, one big question really keeps coming to my mind over and over again is this: is there anything wrong with people today? What is wrong with people? Why have we failed to design and create a system that cares for the earth and its creatures? The earth is injured crying for help and asking people to be merciful and kind. Why don't we listen to and do something about it? In my opinion, there is something wrong with us. Let's see how.
The earth is being abused and exploited massively beyond its capacity to sustain life on this earth that within a short span of time we will be facing extinction of all species on this earth. During the industrial revolution, in 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the industrialists extracted resources from the earth so much in order to make a huge margin of profit that they degraded and destroyed the environment to the brink of non-existence. They didn't bother to show some modesty in their drives to extract the resources and throw the industrial wastes in the nature causing air, water and land pollution. This process is continuing at accelerated speed. It is good to make huge profits but if there is any profit, we are paying the price and the price is very high- human and animal extinction.
The industries, companies and governments of the world are behaving in a strange way with the earth's resources. The governments are supporting the industries and companies to extract resources and finish off everything just to make a big profit. Today governments of the world are not big, they have shrunk as a result they have to obey what the big corporations demand and dictate. How can we the citizens of the world allow the irresponsible people to exploit and abuse the resources so badly that hardly there will be any resources left for our future children? Where will our children go and live with their families if we exploit and use them all now?
The trees are being cut everyday in thousands just to make profits and live a luxurious life at somebody's expenses. The water which belongs to everyone is rationed and bottled in order to tap the potentiality of making huge profits. Oil is extracted from the nature and used for multi-purpose causing a lot of pollution in the air, land and water as a result we are suffering from various diseases which we don't know. We know those diseases only when we get sick and have to pay the medical bills. It is very strange why people have to design this way and follow even in this 21st century?
We have the linear system of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and dumping but this linear system has destroyed our nature and ecology so much that we can see it and feel every day. Why not adopt and design some sustainable, green, zero waste and reliable system to allow life to exist on this earth? It is possible to create and make a system which can cater to all people in the world.
The recent recession has brought a disaster for people. It has killed people, left people jobless, hungry and broke. How can a system that is not supporting people to survive and live be protected and continued even in this century? It has become obsolete and we must never take that as a foundation to draw a future course of existence on earth. We got to be more constructive, sustainable, wise and innovative in using our resources for years to come.
The earth is crying for help because it is suffering. Let's do something and contribute whatever we have to save our planet earth from those industrialists, profit mongers and the governments who protect and promote them by making laws and rules. We must be able to create a world, which no king or queen or president had ever thought of.
The earth is filled with toxins, chemicals, diseases and myopic people who are thinking and acting small and short. They should not be allowed to destroy our earth. We must save our earth from those few humans who are putting all of us into extinction. I think they should be responsible humans to apologize and correct their ways to save the earth for all to live, move and multiply.
If human beings were good and right in their behaviours and actions, they would have protected the earth from the brink of destruction. We should take the step now before it is too late to act and do something. Something is always wrong with people over the years. People have killed, maimed, kidnapped, tortured and destroyed the human civilization and the nature. So obviously it proves that there is something wrong with people. Mahatma Gandhi, wouldn't have approved people destroying the earth at an accelerating speed. Let's stand together and save the earth. Find some solutions for there are solutions to save the earth.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
