I haven't written anyhting here for a couple of weeks now. Nothing just came by my mind that was inspiring enough to write about, except for the documented life of the polar bear at the arctic aired by discovery channel this evening. Yeah, we all know how the ice is melting at the polar caps and yeah we've read how the Arcitc will be ice free in summers in a few years from now but then its just another news, not even sensational news. We tisk tisk and move on with our daily lives. Project deliverables, getting married to the right person, doing an MBA blah blah, things that would really affect us, things that we worry about are things that give us an immediate feedback. Artic melt, sea level rise, eco system deterioration, woh thats too complex for a common person like me, these are things that need to be taken care by you know, super man perhaps or by barack obama, not me we say. I can sympathize or may be donate to greenpeace if its not more than 500 bucks per month and yeah only if it has tax exemption. Otherwise, I'd like to move on, thats our attitude. Is it wrong or right?
Don't worry I'm not critizizing here, I too am like that, all that I've written here is what I do. I sympathized today when I saw a polar bear struggle to free itself from the thin ice slush on the sea and then crawl back to firmer ice where it can walk. I sympathized when the narrator announced how the thining ice during summers starves polar bears for 4 months at a stretch because thining ice means dry land in the arctic and nothing lives or grows on dry land. I sympathized that if such thining goes on then two-thirds of polar bears would vanish by 2020. I'm like you I just sympathize and move on. The reason, I don't know. I'm bothered about my family, my MBA next year, the loan that I need to take to complete my MBA. I shouldn't say that I care for a starving polar bear in the distant arctic while I eat here heartily in India, I should say I sympathize, that too momentarily. My emotions vanish the moment the program would end, half an hour later I would smile and watch a movie in HBO.
I know something. I know that whats happening now to the polar bear would happen to us in the years to come. The vanishing polar bears and the tigers are the best that have survived the human on slaught. They're the best hand picked by nature and thats why they've survived. The polar bear can survive without food for four months, imagine humans in such a state. Its high time we realized that like the thining ice underneath the polar bear, the artificial world that we've created may not support us for long.
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We most certainly can do some basic things like usng less plastic, saving energy by switching off lights, laptops, and the x number of electronics that is always turned on, recycling things...the small things that eventually matters a LOT.
Over Consumption is the culprit Thamarai. This problem cannot be solved by a few humans, it needs an effort from the entire human race in unison. Human over consumption is the reason for all the problems that the world faces today.
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